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Octopus Agile

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  • Bendo
    Bendo Posts: 673 Forumite
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    -4.16 p tomorrow in the final slot. Hopefully that will be repeated with the rest of the overnight slots when pricing for them is available.
  • northernstar007
    northernstar007 Posts: 1,073 Forumite
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    sat night, EVERYTHING is getting turned on when its in the neg even if i dont need it i need to get this avg down
    the ful house will be 100% powered up 
  • pete-20-11
    pete-20-11 Posts: 1,538 Forumite
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    Midnight pizza? 

    (Remember, don't blow your main fuse!) 🤣
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  • RavingMad
    RavingMad Posts: 846 Forumite
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    4 Oil radiators ready to go. 23p average this month 😢
  • northernstar007
    northernstar007 Posts: 1,073 Forumite
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    edited 22 November 2024 at 8:29PM
    pete-20-11 said:
    Midnight pizza? 

    (Remember, don't blow your main fuse!) 🤣
    i did have it upto 8-9kwh on the last neg, whats the limit on a normal domestic
    and if it did blow who pays for a replacement is it  nedl or homeowner to arrange a sparky and how much, just out of curious 
  • Newbie_John
    Newbie_John Posts: 1,405 Forumite
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    Depends on your main fuse - most modern houses have 100A at 240V = 24kWh.
    Some older are 60A so about 13kWh.

    There's also many other factors, for shorter periods of time you can draw more so in theory more than 24 could work. Also depends on your house wiring, each is separated by smaller fuse - so it brings additional limits.

    Then also neighbours may have impact - if your entire street started drawing 20kWh at the same time.. 

  • northernstar007
    northernstar007 Posts: 1,073 Forumite
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    edited 23 November 2024 at 11:56AM
    as mentioned on other postings, free 2hrs slot 7am-9am sunday, also email recieved from octopus
  • Slinky
    Slinky Posts: 11,356 Forumite
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    Trying to get my head around whether I'm better off heating the immersion when its negative slots, than free between 7-9am. We're usually running off the battery between those times, and presumably the Agile rates will be low, so I'm thinking that using negative slots will work more in our favour?
    Make £2025 in 2025
    Prolific £841.95, Octopoints £6.64, TCB £456.58, Tesco Clubcard challenges £89.90, Misc Sales £321, Airtime £60, Shopmium £52.74, Everup £95.64 Zopa CB £30
    Total (1/11/25) £1954.45/£2025 96%

    Make £2024 in 2024
    Prolific £907.37, Chase Int £59.97, Chase roundup int £3.55, Chase CB £122.88, Roadkill £1.30, Octopus ref £50, Octopoints £70.46, TCB £112.03, Shopmium £3, Iceland £4, Ipsos £20, Misc Sales £55.44
    Total £1410/£2024 70%

    Make £2023 in 2023 Total: £2606.33/£2023 128.8%




  • pete-20-11
    pete-20-11 Posts: 1,538 Forumite
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    Slinky said:
    Trying to get my head around whether I'm better off heating the immersion when its negative slots, than free between 7-9am. We're usually running off the battery between those times, and presumably the Agile rates will be low, so I'm thinking that using negative slots will work more in our favour?
    Get paid to use electricity, or get it for free? It's a simple answer isn't it? 

    Who knows, maybe agile will be negative between 7-9am anyway. In which case you don't get the free power, you get paid to use any electric instead. 
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  • teaselMay
    teaselMay Posts: 681 Forumite
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    that's more like it, slightly negative all night tonight (Mersey), long enough into the morning to get the tumble drier on too
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