Octopus Agile

teaselMay

I think the standing charge is fixed for a year from joining, mine's 60.18p in North Wales/Mersey region fixed until March

teaselMay

SAC2334 said:

Friday could have been the most expensive day in the history of Agile with £1 a kWh half hour segments before and after the peak 4pm  to 7 pm and 0.85 ps scattered throughout the day.

I had to pull up the drawbridge on that day and switch off nearly every thing and either go out for hours in freezing cold weather and then have a very cosy four hours in the peak period in my down sleeping bag with two hot water bottles watching the mobile phone YouTube's which was very enjoyable and will be repeated if that happens again .
I got away with using under 3 kwhs and actually beat Tracker on Octopus Compare for that day which was also highest of the year at 38 p .
I had to apologise to a couple of people who I had advised to go on Agile with one of them switching to Tracker having had had enough of this tariff . 

Home all day as most days here, 67p for 1.68 kWh it looked pretty worrying but ended up not bad, within the ballpark of normal day costs of about 45-70p

GingerTim

Just lived my life as normal on Friday, home from work at the usual time and spent £1.62 for the day.

EssexHebridean

To my mind Agile is absolutely not a tariff to suggest to anyone else to go on unless they are already a full-on energy geek - in which case they ought to already know about it. It’s simply too volatile, and the risk of inadvertently costing someone else money because they simply don’t realise that it does require a degree of monitoring makes it off limits to me for suggesting. 

greyteam1959

Apologies I should have given a bit more info.
North Eastern region.
This is my new tariff from February 16th 2025
AGILE-24-10-01
                                     

greenbee

I agree EH - when people have asked me about it I've made clear that it requires work (it usually comes up when talking about solar and batteries, and I make clear that I started with Flux and spent time working out how to optimise on that before I even considered Agile. I do think that (like you) experience with E7 helped. That and working weird hours which mean I'm already load-shifted away from peak rate most of the time. 

RavingMad

Friday was the most expensive day of being on Agile; nearly 10kwh costing almost £5!

Only slightly more expensive for the week compared to any of the recent fixed tariffs so can't complain.

teaselMay

Compared to that January fix I saved 81p on Agile this week

SAC2334

My two I advised have done very well out of Agile in the nine months with many days of either free or dirt cheap electric so a few days of very pricey days is no big deal .Winter appears to be the dodgy period getting stuck with windless days with high pressure over Europe .o
I initially recommended Tracker last April but told them sample Agile first as once leaving Tracker its a nine month wait to go back . Agile suits solo householders and its fine to use the peak period normally  if not using electric ovens or high appliances and still usually come out in front of Tracker . 
Battery users eventually wear out the expensive batteries and I m not even sure they are cost effective as are electric vehicles once all the huge drop in value of the vehicle is added up .

Archerychick

I think it’s been discussed many times, agile is a tarrif for those with either solar, batteries, EV (hybrid) or don’t use large amounts between 4-7pm. With a full EV other tariffs would make more sense.

it naturally made sense for us, with a hydrid that isn’t used every day, and we don’t cook until after 7pm. I’ve saved heaps with Agile. But without the car it would make any sense for us, and we’d be better off on tracker or a fix. 

A single expensive day doesn’t really matter because it’s about the overall cost for us. We are still 28% cheaper than tracker for the last month.