Octopus Agile

RavingMad

Anyone know why it's no longer the early hours of the morning when the rates are the cheapest? I used to run the dw overnight but now it's cheaper to run after lunch.

QrizB

Anyone know why it's no longer the early hours of the morning when the rates are the cheapest?

Likely to be due to solar PV producing electricity during these long sunny June days (nevermind that ots been overcast here all day).

Here's the chart from Electric Insights for the Sunday just gone, for example:

The big yellow hump in the middle of the day is solar PV.
(Other bands - nuclear green, biomass amber, imports (mostly French nuclear) red, wind blue, gas purple. The two thin bands that come and go between imports and wind is hydroelectric & pumped storage.)

Newbie_John

Its interesting that majority of ToU tarrifs offer cheaper hours at night - E7, EV, HeatPumpHeat pumps etc.

The only ones that offer cheaper "solar" time are HeatPump (although this has much lower use of anybiany in summer), or very variable like Agile, FreePhase.

There's a really clear switch summer, winter between cheap periods so I wonder if anyone will bring some sort of season variable E7 like tarrif - 0-7am winter, 9-16 summer 😅 but I guess probbably not, as it's a good time for providers to earn some money.. people pay decent premium for 10-16 in summer.

Pat38493

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/82038830#Comment_82038830

This is pretty normal in the summer - in the summer on Agile there is usually 2 cheap periods - one overnight and one in the afternoon and often the afternoon one is cheapest. In Winter not so much.

QrizB

I hope you Agile folk weren't planning on using any electricity tomorrow evening.

Spoonie_Turtle

Oh my goodness, and I thought this evening was going to be bad! What on earth is going on?

debitcardmayhem

I'll be chucking my kWh at you

edit of course I will only get 28.15p

spot1034

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/82043947#Comment_82043947

I wouldn't have thought it would make such a drastic difference, but could it be anything to do with the England match?

TroubledTarts

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/82043939#Comment_82043939

With a full days sunshine I reckon 4-5kwh in the batteries for that nasty peak period and the micro inverter pumping in to keep the cost to zero.

It wasn't too pretty today and right now to be honest doing the same now

TroubledTarts

If you squint it really doesn't make it any better