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Our overall saving is greater than Octoprice can detect, certainly (I don't use Compare currently) as of course that can't know when I am using electricity instead of gas.🎉 MORTGAGE FREE (First time!) 30/09/2016 🎉 And now we go again…New mortgage taken 01/09/23 🏡
Balance as at 01/09/23 = £115,000.00 Balance as at 31/12/23 = £112,000.00
Balance as at 31/08/24 = £105,400.00 Balance as at 31/12/24 = £102,500.00
Balance as at 31/08/25 = £ 95,450.00
£100k barrier broken 1/4/25SOA CALCULATOR (for DFW newbies): SOA Calculatorshe/her0 -
My understanding is that Compare gives us the cost of a given personal elec consumption profile priced on two or more alternative tariffs. I am not aware of any other app that does this. I don't think that comparisons with gas come into its remit. I stand to be corrected !
Telegraph Sam
There are also unknown unknowns - the one's we don't know we don't know0 -
Pretty sure nobody is suggesting that it DOES compare with gas...I know I certainly wasn't! It's hardly critical either - common sense does a decent job of making a comparison with gas, and the associated decisions around that!🎉 MORTGAGE FREE (First time!) 30/09/2016 🎉 And now we go again…New mortgage taken 01/09/23 🏡
Balance as at 01/09/23 = £115,000.00 Balance as at 31/12/23 = £112,000.00
Balance as at 31/08/24 = £105,400.00 Balance as at 31/12/24 = £102,500.00
Balance as at 31/08/25 = £ 95,450.00
£100k barrier broken 1/4/25SOA CALCULATOR (for DFW newbies): SOA Calculatorshe/her0 -
The most recent Compare tariffs listed for me are Tracker Oct 24 and Agile Oct 24. Between these two Tracker has the advantage over all periods with the exception of a year where they are level pegging. Interesting to see what's next up.Telegraph Sam
There are also unknown unknowns - the one's we don't know we don't know0 -
a bit of a breather tomorrow, and thurs night is looking good0
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Yes, if that little taster in the 2230-2300 slot is a sign of things to come, then I'm extremely pleased with that!🎉 MORTGAGE FREE (First time!) 30/09/2016 🎉 And now we go again…New mortgage taken 01/09/23 🏡
Balance as at 01/09/23 = £115,000.00 Balance as at 31/12/23 = £112,000.00
Balance as at 31/08/24 = £105,400.00 Balance as at 31/12/24 = £102,500.00
Balance as at 31/08/25 = £ 95,450.00
£100k barrier broken 1/4/25SOA CALCULATOR (for DFW newbies): SOA Calculatorshe/her1 -
with that 1030pm slot at 1.6p kwh, slow cooker going on overnight, going to be wakening up a spag bol for the freezer, also a washload going in, should bring today crazy price down a touchEssexHebridean said:Yes, if that little taster in the 2230-2300 slot is a sign of things to come, then I'm extremely pleased with that!1 -
Actually that's a decent shout. I was going to do a batch cook at the weekend anyway, bringing it forwards by a day would work.🎉 MORTGAGE FREE (First time!) 30/09/2016 🎉 And now we go again…New mortgage taken 01/09/23 🏡
Balance as at 01/09/23 = £115,000.00 Balance as at 31/12/23 = £112,000.00
Balance as at 31/08/24 = £105,400.00 Balance as at 31/12/24 = £102,500.00
Balance as at 31/08/25 = £ 95,450.00
£100k barrier broken 1/4/25SOA CALCULATOR (for DFW newbies): SOA Calculatorshe/her1 -
Yeah, there isnt sadly any reliable way to measure how well you're doing.Telegraph_Sam said:
Why not? I thought that this was precisely what Compare could pick up.Do bear in mind that if you used extra energy for heating etc when the unit rate was very low, that figure from Compare is no longer meaningful.
Let's say in summer I use 2kWh a day per average, 30 days, 60kWh, 60*25p on SVR = £15, average 25p
Then on Agile there are 2 days full of negatives and the rest at 25p so I run extra Air Con using 2kW for 48h, because I can 😉 96kWh+4kWh at 0p, total for the month still around £15 but average is 6p/kWh. Big difference but no savings.
Or it always makes me laugh when people with battery say they average to 5p after spending £5k 😅 again making this number useless.
Monthly costs could vary a lot due to weather, yearly costs due to wholesale prices..
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It doesn't make the number 'useless'. I need the battery as I work from home and can't afford to be offline for hours at a time due to powercuts. Yes, there is a sunk cost, and if I can use it to store cheap electricity to avoid using expensive electricity then that helps with the payback (I'm also including cost avoided in travel to a co-working site/the office on power cut days, and working time not lost in my calculations). It also means I can do my bit to help balance the grid by load shifting my usage.Newbie_John said:Telegraph_Sam said:
Why not? I thought that this was precisely what Compare could pick up.Do bear in mind that if you used extra energy for heating etc when the unit rate was very low, that figure from Compare is no longer meaningful.
Or it always makes me laugh when people with battery say they average to 5p after spending £5k 😅 again making this number useless.1
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