Octopus Agile

TheElectricCow

MeteredOut said:

Newbie_John said:

TheElectricCow said:

bob2302 said:

I'm glad I got off Agile. I think most people on Agile would be better off going on to Tomato Lifestyle - at least over the winter. I have 5h at 5p/kWh overnight, 4h at 14p/kWh in the day, and a peak of only 23.26p/kWh ( 0.5p/kWh below Octopus Flexible); the standing charge is 42.9 p compared with 54.8p on Agile Dec 2023.

From what I’ve seen so far, the number of people Tomato has managed to bill accurately seems to be a minority. Call me sceptical, but I feel I’d be better off overall sticking with a supplier who reliably issues correct bills each month than one who doesn’t but has lower prices (of questionable sustainability).

Don’t get me wrong, I’ve been watching Tomato with great intrigue and would like to see what happens if they both survive and sort out the apparent issues, but I certainly won’t be jumping ship from seemingly the most functional supplier out there to potentially the least any time soon.

Check again, the last two weeks it changed a lot.
Most of people with SMETS2 who have been for 30 days+ have had their bills - all correct (including me).
SMETS1 varies, they said they're working on it and plan to resolve it soon. 

Not having a bill sounds odd but most electricity companies do that, charge you monthly an estimated amount and adjust when they get their readings - which could be once in a year..

How many cusotmers? 
Facebook group has 2000 members, the TE wesbite says they want 1 million by 2026 So somehwere between!

I'd like to hear that answer from TheElectricCow, because for her to say "From what I’ve seen so far, the number of people Tomato has managed to bill accurately seems to be a minority. ", she must know the answer.

Perhaps that was a poor choice of wording on my part and I should have prefaced my comments by stating the “from what I’ve seen” was largely based on what’s been reported by other forum users here and cursory glances around other areas of the internet - and apparently also conflated by a lot of the earlier issues which, as Newbie_John points out, have now started being resolved.

Giving things another look, I do indeed stand corrected on that point and the more recent comments on the accuracy of their billing do appear to trend much more positively than before. I still can’t say I’m convinced by Tomato yet but I’ll certainly be following more closely once my Octo-Agile comes to the end of the current fixed SC period.

MikeyPGT

teaselMay said:

Finally set up the octopus home mini that arrived a couple of months ago, I like a bit of data but the in home display offended my inner geek and so it's been hidden since a week after it arrived. I probably should have plugged this one in day before yesterday shouldn't I.

I love my mini although it does pain me when I'm away from home watching my empty house still gobbling electricity! Maybe a fridge/freezer and a freezer isn't that great a saving ...

fuzzysb

Well it seems i have the best of all worlds at the moment. I have been using Agile now for a couple of years and have this automated to use my battery and solar and have been getting upto recently average daily combined rates of 16p/kwh or less, until mid Nov where the price has been rocketing, looking at the rates today, they are hitting the £1 cap for the first time in years.... but at the moment i don't care as Octopus have lost my SMETS1 meter reading since Oct 11th, so i am waiting for a new meter to be fitted.... they can take their time for all i care as they will be charging me only the standard rate failover in absence of a smart meter fail. simply put though they have not given me credit for any export.... but i will let them off with these rates.


I was getting significant savings as i use about 40kWh daily... and my payoff for solar and batteries was looking to be about 4.2 years total, but not anymore in this economy with these prices. I have a new SMETS2 meter hopefully being fitted on the 13th Jan, so hopefully we will see what happens to spot wholesale prices after that, may well be worth switching to the octopus go tariff as i now have an EV and its support V2X so waiting to get a charger that supports it also in the new year and using my car and house battery to run the house in peak times as will have about 90kWh to play with, more than enough for my daily usage on peak and will mean can achieve about 10kWh of charging off peak so so just be able to recover the days usage every day + a bit extra for the car i use little.

Bendo

My average yesterday was 44.33 pence / kWh.

Fortunately I only used 6.2 of them so not really bothered too much.

teaselMay

MikeyPGT said:

teaselMay said:

Finally set up the octopus home mini that arrived a couple of months ago, I like a bit of data but the in home display offended my inner geek and so it's been hidden since a week after it arrived. I probably should have plugged this one in day before yesterday shouldn't I.

I love my mini although it does pain me when I'm away from home watching my empty house still gobbling electricity! Maybe a fridge/freezer and a freezer isn't that great a saving ...

I'm liking it so far, reassuring numbers, I can see it resulting in me putting the heating on a bit more than I have been.

I discovered that I'd left my freezer door ajar just as I left for a night at friends, retrieving an ice pack for injured knees!, when I glanced at the app graph the next day it was oddly active given noone had been home. You could see how long it had taken for the freezer to reseal itself with ice.

Bendo

Tomorrows rates are lot better. Still peaks at 74p but nowhere near as bad as today.

Looks quite windy into next week as well so hopefully be a good week.

wrf12345

Record low consumption yesterday, mostly the odd 1-2W LED light, running my computers off their batteries and charging phone with power banks, fridge turned off evening and not opened at all as eating cooked meat and tinned tuna (both on special offer, as it happens, so cheaper than normal). Four cups of microwaved coffee the major expense, down to three cups today. All good fun but will soon turn tiresome.

Netexporter

I bravely left the thermostat at my overnight 16 degrees and the heat pump bumbled along at about 6 or 7 minutes and a similar off period. With a bit of help from the solar (not more than 300W peak) I paying about 30p/hour this morning. Now it is up to 60p/hour. Roll on Archers time.

EssexHebridean

Netexporter said:

I bravely left the thermostat at my overnight 16 degrees and the heat pump bumbled along at about 6 or 7 minutes and a similar off period. With a bit of help from the solar (not more than 300W peak) I paying about 30p/hour this morning. Now it is up to 60p/hour. Roll on Archers time.

Is that the radio show - to take your mind off things - or the drink - so you don't care any more?! 

Netexporter

The strains of Barwick Green might prompt the pouring of a glass of red, to fortify me during the wait for the 20:30 slot, which is generally the cheapest cooking time before respectable folk go to bed. (I'm not respectable)