Octopus Agile

mmmmikey

Well that's a bit disappointing, looks like we're going to have to actually PAY to use electricity tonight - the price doesn't fall below 2.31p/kWh for me

Despite some of the highest prices I've seen since joining in May, October is shaping up to be an excellent month.

I've finally worked out where the saying "it's an ill wind that blows nobody any good" comes from

Bendo

In the past 11 days my average unit price is 16.10p / kWh.  Happy enough with that only really experimenting but seems to work out nicely so far.

Spies

Suprising overnight rates aren't negative really considering the weather 

Pat38493

Also for 3 days now there has not been any slots in the daytime when agile was cheaper than tracker - only overnight.  

Not sure if that becomes more the typical pattern over the winter months.

mmmmikey

Yes, the Agile price is varying a lot through the day at the moment with high highs and low lows. It will be interesting to see if that continues and the impact it has on people. Even if the average goes up, if the lows go down it's quite possible to see your own weighted average go down too.

Netexporter

I was very surprised that my latest monthly average was my lowest, so far. Prices seemed to be well up, most of the time. I suspect some judicious paid-for car charges may have been the finger on the scales, though.

I think there may be worse hobbies than Agileing.

Netexporter

An overnight plunge, starting at 23:30 tomorrow.

A day out in the MG is called for, I fancy.

Bendo

My boilermate disgraced itself (bottom corroded out and emptied itself).

Now deciding between a new current generation boilermate or every installers favoured choice of putting in an unvented cylinder.

Honestly, before trying agile and realising that I could run the heating off a 6Kw immersion heater, I'd have happily gone with the unvented.  Now I'm swung back to the boilermate. Despite their reputation mine was flawless for 17 years...

My heating engineer as expected suggested unvented but when I explained the reasoning for another thermal store, he sees the logic and is happy to fit either.  Just waiting on pricing for both options but I suspect I'll go for another boilermate...

In the meantime, will do some money saving and stay with the inlaws for a week in absence of heat and hot water.

QrizB

Bendo said:

Honestly, before trying agile and realising that I could run the heating off a 6Kw immersion heater, I'd have happily gone with the unvented.  Now I'm swung back to the boilermate. Despite their reputation mine was flawless for 17 years...

Boilermate is just Gledhill's brand of thermal store. There are other manufacturers, and other options!

Bendo

QrizB said:

Bendo said:

Honestly, before trying agile and realising that I could run the heating off a 6Kw immersion heater, I'd have happily gone with the unvented.  Now I'm swung back to the boilermate. Despite their reputation mine was flawless for 17 years...

Boilermate is just Gledhill's brand of thermal store. There are other manufacturers, and other options!

Indeed looked at a few options, all much of a muchness really when it comes to thermal stores and very much past their heyday so little info to be found on current ones.

Another plus for the store option for me is it nicely balances out heating just one or two rooms, something a boiler doing the heating probably would end up cycling quite a bit with.