Octopus Tariffs

Speaker1

I received a MSE Newsletter this morning. It mentioned prices og Octopus Intelligent and Go. Are the rates current, or after this weekends rate decreases of electricity?

TheMilkmansDad

only SVR rates are decreasing, neither of the 2 listed above are SVR. They are linked to real time rates and will go up and down accordingly.

MSE_Clare

Hi Speaker1

Our latest weekly email mentioned Agile Octopus and Octopus Tracker. Both of these tariffs are variable tariffs based on wholesale prices and are not governed by the Price Cap. So the rates will not change on 1 October, however they will change based on daily/half-hourly wholesale prices.

You mentioned Intelligent Octopus and Octopus Go - we didn't cover these in yesterday's email, but as above, these are smart variable tariffs that are not governed by the Price Cap.

I hope that helps.

Clare Casalis - MSE Energy Expert

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Ask an Expert: Energy (Sep 2023)

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Speaker1

And yet, I'm on Octopus Go, and I've received an email from Octopus to say my tariff will be reduced this weekend. I don't understand.

astroL

When the previous price cap reduction was announced by Octopus, Octopus increased my electricity charge by 27% (7.5p to 9.5p). Before they announced the recent price cap I asked them by how much they proposed to increase my cap charges (in the light of my experience of their 'reductions ....').  In fact they reduced the priced by an almost imperceptible amount. MSE is referring to the Octopus fix tariff.  FWIW (sadly very little), their quote for me (for a fix) would have doubled my current costs, and more. (~£800 to ~£1800, quite disappointing) for a family that has spent savings to reduce future electricity usage/costs.

Lawrence H