Octopus Agile

Pat38493

In the Octopus Watch app, there is a flag you can enable to "Highlight expensive Gas" - "Highlight when electricity prices are lower than your current gas prices".

If I switch this option on, it is highlighting agile slots where the electric price is in the 20s of p per KWH, but my current gas price is 6.52p (tracker).

I couldn't find documentation about this - any ideas how I am supposed to interpret this information?  I think this is a new feature so I suppose it might just be plain wrong!

la531983

Should be some dirt cheap energy between 3 and 5am tomorrow, probably not into plunge territory but wont be any more than 2p at most.

Netexporter

I got my Octopus bill today and was surprised to find my average unit price for the month was down to 13p. I was convinced it was going to be more like 20p. There were days when the average exceeded 20p but judicious car charging more than compensated for that.

I also got two quotes with my bill, one for the SVT and a 12-month fix. Identical prices of 27.45p/kWh but with a £75 early exit penalty on the fix.

I'm sticking with Agile.

mmmmikey

This looks like good news for Agile / Tracker customers North of the border:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-67126815

And maybe for some of us to the South as well? Depends on the grid, I guess.

Netexporter

It's all one grid. It doesn't matter where you are in the UK (except Norn Iron).

mmmmikey

Netexporter said:

It's all one grid. It doesn't matter where you are in the UK (except Norn Iron).

I think there are bottlenecks, though, that limit the amount that can flow from region to region?

Good to see plunge pricing back overnight :_:smile:

Spies

My second oil heater arrived today so now I have a total of 4.5kw of electric heating, just need some sub 5p periods during the day to make use of them! 

MultiFuelBurner

Spies said:

My second oil heater arrived today so now I have a total of 4.5kw of electric heating, just need some sub 5p periods during the day to make use of them! 

How much did they cost?

Spies

MultiFuelBurner said:

Spies said:

My second oil heater arrived today so now I have a total of 4.5kw of electric heating, just need some sub 5p periods during the day to make use of them! 

How much did they cost?

First one I got years ago so I'm not sure, maybe £30, the latest one was ebay damaged box job, again £30

9 fin is around 2000w the 11 fin is 2500w

Netexporter

Plug in for paid-for/nearly free leccy from 23:30 tonight until 05:00 tomorrow.