Octopus Agile

Newbie_John

Telegraph_Sam said:

The obvious question to ask is: Within the "Switched to Agile" community are there any readers who have regretted switching, or has it been roses for everyone?

As you can leave anytime, I don't think anyone regrets it. The last 2 months have been really good so you can see just roses here :-)
But just take a look back to "autumn" pages of this thread when prices where reaching 71p:
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6433912/octopus-agile/p38
Some people jumped the ship, and the tone was very different.

But my general thoughts after experiencing prices from -5p to 72p over the past few months:
PROS) Agile tariff is a tool that can save you a lot of money. I always wanted to get solar/battery but comparing initial costs with a 5% saving account we're talking about 20 years to break even, so not for me. Here on Agile, costs are £0 so you can start saving straight away - how much? - I think in the recent 2 months 50% of what you pay wasn't that hard to achieve?

CONS) Some say hobby, some say a lot of fuff. If you follow daily prices, schedule things to run during cheap slots you can save the most. But a lot of people I know don't care - they do whatever they want - and save money just by chance that 21h/24h it tends to be cheaper. And it can be scary - like my wife putting some chips at 72p per kWh  - so now I tend to cook on the days I see very high/low prices - like today - under 10p at 2pm (will do curry to reheat later).
As we have only electric heating - there were days this winter when we had 18*C at home and there were days we had 25*C.. so you need to be Agile ;-) 
And I guess depending on the type of person you are - if you want to save every penny then it will take a lot of your time :-D 

gt94sss2

Looks like there is a new Agile Octopus April 2024 v1

tlcgrantham

gt94sss2 said:

Looks like there is a new Agile Octopus April 2024 v1

So far only the standing charge seems to have changed to the same as flexible 

Newbie_John

gt94sss2 said:

Looks like there is a new Agile Octopus April 2024 v1

I see that standing charge (London) rose from 36.5p to 38.7p, that's about it.

double_dutchy

Netexporter said:

It usually starts the next full day.

For me and some others it started from midnight BEFORE you switch

Netexporter

double_dutchy said:

Netexporter said:

It usually starts the next full day.

For me and some others it started from midnight BEFORE you switch

Perhaps I misremembered. As it started at 00:00, I thought it must have been the next day.

MikeyPGT

My average daily spend July - mid December was £1.47 (inc standing charge) changed to Agile and my highest daily bill has been £1.49 with an average of £1.07 to date. Cheapest day so far was .54p (inc standing charge) when I actually used 13.5 KwH of electricity!  No regrets here, but I am probably one of the lowest users of electricity on the panet (no solar or battery back up).

Telegraph_Sam

As a general point could I say that the value of each post is all the more relevant if it is made clear what the comparison is with - Tracker, SVR etc (where comparative figures are quoted)

SAC2334

MikeyPGT said:

My average daily spend July - mid December was £1.47 (inc standing charge) changed to Agile and my highest daily bill has been £1.49 with an average of £1.07 to date. Cheapest day so far was .54p (inc standing charge) when I actually used 13.5 KwH of electricity!  No regrets here, but I am probably one of the lowest users of electricity on the panet (no solar or battery back up).

Sorry Mikey, you re not the lowest by far  My last 31 days on Agile I ve averaged £1.03 a day incl standing charges and I don t consider myself at all a stingy low user .Bill was charged at 11.58 p a kwh .No solar or battery neither as they don t really pay that much if you take in account the depreciation and that you can make £23 a month on £4k in Santander Edge 7% account .
I am a newbie to Agile 5 weeks ago  so I expect the rest of the year I will be in for some really high days and I will easily overtake you.

MikeyPGT

Telegraph_Sam said:

As a general point could I say that the value of each post is all the more relevant if it is made clear what the comparison is with - Tracker, SVR etc (where comparative figures are quoted)

Good point - my comparison was with SVR ...