Octopus Agile

EssexHebridean

greenbee - I don't know about you, but I'm quite happy to take the savings I see - in my case through Octoprice and in yours, Compare - as a minimum, and know that in fact the savings are actually greater because at the relevant times, we're using electricity in place of another fuel, because it is CHEAPER than that other fuel... Ultimately, if I can carry on doing all the things I need to use electricity for, and if I can save a bit of gas along the way, that's hunky dory by me! 

Anyone got any guesses where we're going to see prices head to over the weekend, then? 

teaselMay

agreed, EH, the numbers don't matter so much as the monthly price for doing what you need and want to do is lower, and even more so when it saves some gas or oil too.

Looks as though a cheap night tonight and cheap night and possibly morning Saturday night into Sunday morning - the wind at its height may be too windy for generation

greenbee

Agreed EH - I'm load (and budget) shifting to the cheapest option. The saving reported in compare against the (in my case) Flux electricity price at the time might not be quite the same as the saving against the price of oil, but there's still a saving. If I wanted to, I could work out the units used for electric heating/immersion (not that difficult to do), and calculate them as a saving against the 6p/kWh that oil heating costs me, but TBH it isn't worth it. 

What probably is worth it is exporting tonight at peak rate - I'm still on Flux for export - but I'll wait for tomorrow's Agile rates to work out exactly how much to run the battery down between 4 and 6pm. 

teaselMay

For example of how Octopus compare is useful, this week has seen pretty horrific Agile prices and price patterns, there have been no cheap nights let alone days. I used 17.09 kWh that's cost me £7.68 (inc standing charge) on the latest fix it would have cost me 8.28, tracker would have been 8.34. 39p of the 60p saving is a lower standing charge, but that was one of the reasons I chose Agile because my usage is relatively low. It's not cost me more this week is the main thing I'm bothered about, some weeks it saves me a lot.

Bendo

Tomorrows pricing looks a bit disappointing given the wind.  Perhaps too windy?

teaselMay

I think too windy for safe generation in a lot of west coast places, overnight should be better tomorrow

Netexporter

The wrong sort of wind in the wrong places.

QrizB

Bendo said:

Tomorrows pricing looks a bit disappointing given the wind.  Perhaps too windy?

Possibly! The predicted generation chart from Ripple's turbines at Kirk Hill in SW Scotland has a big hole overnight:

northernstar007

cheap night ahead, will finish do final bedding & towl wash tonight and a service wash
also half leg of lamb for the slow cooker to come on at 3am ready for 8am @ under 4p kwh

how times have changed 3am on a sun morning 30yrs ago i be coming home from clubbing lol

double_dutchy

Netexporter said:

The wrong sort of wind in the wrong places.

I had that once. Doc said just ignore it and it'll be gone in a few days.....