Octopus Agile

Archerychick

wakeupalarm said:

Coming from tracker which are the best apps to use to compare the Agile prices to the new Tracker prices?

I use Octopus Compare 

Newbie_John

I think these two tarrifs are difficult to compare like for like. If you have anything electricly heavy and are able to shift it to different times - heating, battery charging etc. and avoid cooking 16-19 then Agile will be better, otherwise Tracker really.

On normal days I beat Tracker slightly and that's with cooking at 3pm. On random windy days, especially when there are negative prices I can save a lot compared to Tracker.
Last 30 days:
£112 Agile
£130 Tracker
£245 Normal

BellaBlondykeTheThird

Ah the new home Octopus Agile. Switched at midnight.

From the compare app

Last 30 days

£165   Tracker Nov 2022 v1 
£200   Tracker Dec 2023 v1 
£300   Flexible 

£169   Agile (without any load shifting as we only switched today)

So not looking to shift a lot to match the old Tracker formula and won't be moving cooking out of the expensive 4-7pm period as an example.

Looking forward to what the figures are in 30 days time.

Spies

Next Thursday is looking like it could be a cheap day!

t0rt0ise

BellaBlondykeTheThird said:

Ah the new home Octopus Agile. Switched at midnight.

From the compare app

Last 30 days

£165   Tracker Nov 2022 v1 
£200   Tracker Dec 2023 v1 
£300   Flexible 

£169   Agile (without any load shifting as we only switched today)

So not looking to shift a lot to match the old Tracker formula and won't be moving cooking out of the expensive 4-7pm period as an example.

Looking forward to what the figures are in 30 days time.

I'm with you as just switched from tracker a few minutes ago although it says it will start from the midnight just gone. I won't load shift and have no battery, EV etc so am hoping this works for me. Based on the last month it should be okay but who knows!

BellaBlondykeTheThird

t0rt0ise said:

BellaBlondykeTheThird said:

Ah the new home Octopus Agile. Switched at midnight.

From the compare app

Last 30 days

£165   Tracker Nov 2022 v1 
£200   Tracker Dec 2023 v1 
£300   Flexible 

£169   Agile (without any load shifting as we only switched today)

So not looking to shift a lot to match the old Tracker formula and won't be moving cooking out of the expensive 4-7pm period as an example.

Looking forward to what the figures are in 30 days time.

I'm with you as just switched from tracker a few minutes ago although it says it will start from the midnight just gone. I won't load shift and have no battery, EV etc so am hoping this works for me. Based on the last month it should be okay but who knows!

I don't think you will regret it. We are Eastern region and that meant a 3.4p per kWh rise on tracker so it was a no brainwr and thanks to @multifuelburner for pointing this out early on the tracker chat.

Having the Octopus mini helps as it's already shown me yesterday we averaged under 13.5p kWh on Agile versus 18.63p kwh. 

BellaBlondykeTheThird

Spies said:

Next Thursday is looking like it could be a cheap day!

Yeah looks good that could be our very first price plunge and I am planning what we might put on timers and schedule.

Archerychick

Spies said:

Next Thursday is looking like it could be a cheap day!

Where are you seeing this out of interest?

BellaBlondykeTheThird

Archerychick said:

Spies said:

Next Thursday is looking like it could be a cheap day!

Where are you seeing this out of interest?

https://emoncms.org/ukgrid

Pat38493

The only reason I haven't switched back to Agile is that I suspect Octopus are going to increase the Agile price as well.  If they don't do that in the next month or two I will switch.