Octopus Agile

northernstar007

teaselMay said:

aye much more sane prices tomorrow.

I'm kicking myself for not having plugged the home mini in before. Even expensive days feel much more in control when can see what your using in real time. 

great little bit of kit, use it all the time

northernstar007

all nextweek is looking good, but sunday night we could be getting some close to free few slots imo so, try and hold out any  heavy usage

teaselMay

That's definitely a washing and drying night i reckon

Badboi

Is the general consensus that all trackers after dec 23 are not worth it? My dec 23 runs out in 80 days so looking at my options post winter 24/25.  

pete-20-11

Badboi said:

Is the general consensus that all trackers after dec 23 are not worth it? My dec 23 runs out in 80 days so looking at my options post winter 24/25.  

Has the dec 24 been announced yet? 

The later trackers seem closer to the SVR than Dec 23.

It's hard to say what will happen with prices- if they stay at this level a fix is probably a better idea, if tracker starts to fall in Jan, then stay on the tracker. 

Ultimately if you want security fix, if you're happy to gamble, stay on tracker. 

Don't leave it early either as you won't get back into a tracker for 9 months.

You should be able to get a fix that starts after your tracker ends, they did that for me.

QrizB

Badboi said:

Is the general consensus that all trackers after dec 23 are not worth it? My dec 23 runs out in 80 days so looking at my options post winter 24/25. 

Noting that this is the Agile thread, not the Tracker one ...

Octopus seem to be revising their Tracker formulas every quarter, as the Ofgem cap changes. Jan 25 is likely to be slightly higher than Oct 24. Whether it's worth it or not will depend on what you expect wholesale gas prices to do. At the moment, gas futures are trending downwards but that doesn't mean they'll continue to do so.

https://www.ice.com/products/910/UK-Natural-Gas-Futures/data?marketId=5733940&span=1

Badboi

QrizB said:

Badboi said:

Is the general consensus that all trackers after dec 23 are not worth it? My dec 23 runs out in 80 days so looking at my options post winter 24/25. 

Noting that this is the Agile thread, not the Tracker one ...

Octopus seem to be revising their Tracker formulas every quarter, as the Ofgem cap changes. Jan 25 is likely to be slightly higher than Oct 24. Whether it's worth it or not will depend on what you expect wholesale gas prices to do. At the moment, gas futures are trending downwards but that doesn't mean they'll continue to do so.

https://www.ice.com/products/910/UK-Natural-Gas-Futures/data?marketId=5733940&span=1

Oops sorry, I’ll put it in the tracker one…thanks

MikeyPGT

Pat38493 said:

MikeyPGT said:

masonic said:

Tomorrow is looking much better, still a bit of a morning peak, but much lower than today.

Regarding timing of moving back and forth, last year the festive period was cheap, so I am loosely considering switching TO Agile for the holidays and beyond.

True - Christmas pricing was mad last year. Actually got paid to cook my Christmas dinner. Sadly this year I'm away so no chance really to make up for the last couple of weeks, however saying that I only spent 36p on electric yesterday so I shouldn't really complain. Spirit of the blitz and all that!

According to Agile portal, there wasn't any negative pricing on Xmas day last year (couple of zero slots by the look of it, and a lot of zero slots the previous day).  Maybe you are including export in your statement or suchlike?

I pre-cooked on Christmas Eve - definitely negative prices here in South Wales ...

Archerychick

MikeyPGT said:

Pat38493 said:

MikeyPGT said:

masonic said:

Tomorrow is looking much better, still a bit of a morning peak, but much lower than today.

Regarding timing of moving back and forth, last year the festive period was cheap, so I am loosely considering switching TO Agile for the holidays and beyond.

True - Christmas pricing was mad last year. Actually got paid to cook my Christmas dinner. Sadly this year I'm away so no chance really to make up for the last couple of weeks, however saying that I only spent 36p on electric yesterday so I shouldn't really complain. Spirit of the blitz and all that!

According to Agile portal, there wasn't any negative pricing on Xmas day last year (couple of zero slots by the look of it, and a lot of zero slots the previous day).  Maybe you are including export in your statement or suchlike?

I pre-cooked on Christmas Eve - definitely negative prices here in South Wales ...

Yes we had some negative slots 24th & 25th Dec in midlands looking back on Octo-Aid 

TheElectricCow

Out of curiosity, has anyone with the home mini measured the energy consumption of the device itself? 

Not that I imagine it’s any huge amount, but I’ve been considering signing up for one and do like to have at least a rough idea of how much anything left on permanently might add to my background usage.