Octopus Agile

Newbie_John

Ok, surprisingly not that bad:
0-6 20p or under
6-16 close to SVR
16-19 up to 39p-51p
19-23 going down from 27p to 18p

But Tracker rate 21p only throughout the day   

mmmmikey

Yes, not as high as expected. My weighted average unit rate for the first 2 weeks of November was 15.0p/kWh for Agile and would have been 18.2p/kWh for Tracker or 26.8p/kWh for SVR. There was only one day in this period where Tracker would have beaten Agile for me. On 5th November Agile was 19.6p/kWh and Tracker would have been 19.0p/kWh. So Agile still working out best for me by a worthwhile margin BUT only because I already have the technology in place. The saving would probably never pay for the technology at these rates. Looking forward to seing some better rates at the weekend for doing laundry and topping up the thermal store to the brim.

mmmmikey

Yay - saving the laundry for the weekend certainly worked and I look forward to being paid to wake up to a nice warm house tomorrow morning. Tracker pricing has been slowly closing the gap as autumn progresses but tonight's plunge pricing will give Agile a chance to open out it's lead again :-) Long may the storms continue (but after I've got the roof fixed, of course :-) )

Oscarmax

Loads of wind please I am charging up the battery and car for free 

Netexporter

Freeish car top-up tonight.

Newbie_John

What's the max I can run per hour?
3kW immersion heater
2x 2kW radiators
Washing machine, bread maker, dishwasher, towel radiator.. 

MultiFuelBurner

Newbie_John said:

What's the max I can run per hour?
3kW immersion heater
2x 2kW radiators
Washing machine, bread maker, dishwasher, towel radiator.. 

Depends on you fuse rating (60A or 100A) / consumer board setup and has anyone tightened your tails recently before you shoot as much load through them as possible.

Netexporter

17kW on an 80A main fuse.

Newbie_John

100 Amp, does that mean up to 24kw?

Ok, I'll answer myself - apparently up to 23kW.

Ok I should be safe with my estimated 12kW max at 1:30 😅

mmmmikey

Just a word of caution - you also need to think of the load on each individual circuit. IF your circuit breakers are in good working order then the worst thing that will happen if you plug too many heaters or high power devices into an individual circuit then the worst that will probably happen is you will trip the circuit breaker for that circuit.

IF your circuit breakers are in good working order.

And as @MultiFuelBurner alludes to above passing a lot of current through a slightly dodgy connection presents a fire risk.

When did you last have your electrics checked?