Octopus Agile

debitcardmayhem

Netexporter said:

Yay! My Home Mini is on its way.

PennineAcute said:

Netexporter said:

Yay! My Home Mini is on its way.

So is mine

Boo hoo, no sign of mine yet, I am guessing that’s because of my L&G smets1s

QrizB

mmmmikey said:

I'm on Agile - here are some figures for October showing it how it compared for me with Tracker and SVR:

Total cost:               Agile £43.40       Tracker £66.03         SVR £96.41

Average unit rates: Agile 9.65p/kWh Tracker 17.01p/kWh SVR 26.35p/kWh

So Agile still the best for me by quite some margin BUT based on the last week or so I'm not sure how long it will last.

How's everyone else doing?

Just for comparison, I'm on Go (9p/30p) and my October bill average was 10.9p/kWh. Not quite as cheap as you managed on Agile but I'm happy with it, as I know when my cheap hours will be every day for the next 11 months!

Netexporter

as I know when my cheap hours will be every day for the next 11 months!

Where's the fun in that!

I'm sure Go, or similar, is better for people with more regular lifestyles, especially when you have other family members needs/habits to account for. Agile is a fairly harmless hobby for old codgers who don't have to do anything, or be anywhere, at a particular time, though.

madswitcher

Hi folks

I have asked this question on another forum but this one is probaby more appropiate.

I am having problems getting my installer to switch on the 'Octopus Charge' option in the web portal for my Lux system so that I can take best advantage of being on the Agile tarriff.  Is there a way to contact the manufacturer directly to get this done?

Thanks

Newbie_John

Just looking at todays prices in London area, they are:
22:00-22:30 16.13p
22:30-23:00 16.13p
23:00-23:30
23:30-00:00 

The last two are unknown, what does it mean? That they will be updated with "tomorrow's prices", or that they are the same as for previous hours 16.13p, or there was some sort of issue importing them? 

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I'll answer myself, they were added with tomorrow's prices, and similar happened for tomorrow - they only show till 11pm. So I wonder if it's a clock change related.. oh well.

Pat38493

Newbie_John said:

Just looking at todays prices in London area, they are:
22:00-22:30 16.13p
22:30-23:00 16.13p
23:00-23:30
23:30-00:00 

The last two are unknown, what does it mean? That they will be updated with "tomorrow's prices", or that they are the same as for previous hours 16.13p, or there was some sort of issue importing them? 

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I'll answer myself, they were added with tomorrow's prices, and similar happened for tomorrow - they only show till 11pm. So I wonder if it's a clock change related.. oh well.

This is the same every day - the prices for the following 24 hours 11pm to 11pm are updated at around 4pm.  I am not sure why it's 11pm and not midnight - probably has something to do with most of the other countries around us who are also affecting the price are an hour later.

mmmmikey

Pat38493 said:

Newbie_John said:

Just looking at todays prices in London area, they are:
22:00-22:30 16.13p
22:30-23:00 16.13p
23:00-23:30
23:30-00:00 

The last two are unknown, what does it mean? That they will be updated with "tomorrow's prices", or that they are the same as for previous hours 16.13p, or there was some sort of issue importing them? 

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I'll answer myself, they were added with tomorrow's prices, and similar happened for tomorrow - they only show till 11pm. So I wonder if it's a clock change related.. oh well.

This is the same every day - the prices for the following 24 hours 11pm to 11pm are updated at around 4pm.  I am not sure why it's 11pm and not midnight - probably has something to do with most of the other countries around us who are also affecting the price are an hour later.

The prices are calculated each day ahead from European market data and are based on European time which is an hour ahead of us. So our prices are from 00:00 to 00:00 European time which is 23:00 to 23:00 UK time.

Spies

mmmmikey said:

So Agile still the best for me by quite some margin BUT based on the last week or so I'm not sure how long it will last.

How's everyone else doing?

Tracker is proving the right choice for me but I do miss load shifting a bit, it felt strange turning the dishwasher on immediately after we had finished dinner 😂

This is slightly skewed though (spot which day) as I'm charging my car whenever, not when agile would be cheap. 

Newbie_John

@Spies, it is really hard to compare these tariffs.
In my Agile Vs SVR, when there is under 5p rate from 1-5am I would heat my home office to up to 30°C and then not heat it at all during the day. On SVR I would probably do like 1h heating on at 9am and 30m later.

The comparison would show 20p on Agile Vs £1.20 on SVR, but the true saving is lower, something like 20p Vs 50p.

Bendo

Yeah comparisons are likely to be hard. In my case (once my heating is fixed and I've sorted my automations)  ill be using significantly more electric than I have ever done and a lot less gas.

That's going to screw up my annual consumption tallys.

More crucially from about 20 days on agile doing some testing, Tracker would have been about 50p cheaper, but had I not used 20kWh elec on a couple of days when it cost nothing on Agile, tracker would have come out a bit cheaper, but I'd have used more gas.