I have solar panels and Tesla battery, is Octopus Intelligent Flux the best deal?

OmegaA

My contract is coming to the end at the end of September. I have solar panels and Tesla PowrWall 2. I Imported 1069 kWh from the grid and Exported 4580 kWh to the grid in 1 year

Gas 20122 kWh In a year

I also note that I I need to import a lot of electricity in colder months - 35% in November, 75% in December, 43% January, 36% February, then is falls below 15%.  I know last year was cloudy autumn and winter

Is Octopus Intelligent Flux the best deal for me? I cannot see their prices, and understand I cannot because they cannot tell me what it will be any day

Should I go both gas and electricity or split them?

Reed_Richards

Is there such a thing as "Octopus Intelligent Flux" or do you mean "Intelligent Octopus Flux"?  Knowing Octopus and their range of confusing similarly-named tariffs it would not surprise me if there is both of them, but a quick Google only finds "Intelligent Octopus Flux".  If that is the one you mean then this page says only a GivEnergy battery is supported https://octopus.energy/smart/intelligent-octopus-flux/ .  But maybe somebody else here knows better.

  

OmegaA

Thank you, looks like Intelligent Octopus Flux may not work with PowerWall 2
Is Octopus still the best option and would you say splitting gas from electricity tariff is the best option? I cannot find impartial price comparison sites for feed-in tariffs, maybe you can advise some?

powerful_Rogue

Intelligent Octopus Flux  - Works only with eligible batteries.

Octopus Flux works with all. Pop your postcode in and it will tell you the rates. Octopus Flux prices are set, so don't change daily.

It's the new naming convention, such as Intelligent Octopus Go and Octopus Go.

Reed_Richards

Soon to be followed by Go Intelligent Octopus and Octopus A-Go-Go?

Alnat1

OmegaA said:

Thank you, looks like Intelligent Octopus Flux may not work with PowerWall 2
Is Octopus still the best option and would you say splitting gas from electricity tariff is the best option? I cannot find impartial price comparison sites for feed-in tariffs, maybe you can advise some?

What do you mean by "splitting gas from electricity"? Are you looking for gas from another company and electricity from Octopus?

I have solar and battery and consider Flux to be a summer tariff, for when you are exporting more than you are importing. For winter I go with Agile for import and Outgoing Fixed at 15p for the export.

debitcardmayhem

Reed_Richards said:

Soon to be followed by Go Intelligent Octopus and Octopus A-Go-Go?

Not forgetting Go AIntelligent

DougMLancs

I really rate Intelligent Octopus Flux for the generation season but will either go back to Cosy or try Agile for the heating season. 

Tesla batteries are also supported by IOF as announced last month https://electrek.co/2024/06/17/octopus-energy-tesla-powerwall/

Also, you can see the IOF rates for your region by scrolling down on the webpage until you see a box to enter your postcode (just past the ‘read our FAQ’s here’ section). https://octopus.energy/smart/intelligent-octopus-flux/

Qyburn

DougMLancs said:

I really rate Intelligent Octopus Flux for the generation season but will either go back to Cosy or try Agile for the heating season. 

Tesla batteries are also supported by IOF as announced last month https://electrek.co/2024/06/17/octopus-energy-tesla-powerwall/

Is that in place yet? There was a similar announcement regarding Octopus and Solaredge, but Octopus' web page still says only Givenergy is supported.

TheScythingSailor

Blimey this is getting complicated, so many different available tarrifs and options.

We have solar with a Solax 5.8 KW battery (so no Intelligent Flux at the moment), lowish usage but disillusioned with what we get from Ovo.

Given the variability of import and export prices and the use of all our battery power at peak, leaving us with the rest of the evening on "grid power" I really can’t make up my mind.

I just spoke to a very helpful CS lad called Connor but TBH I'm no clearer.

Can anybody point out a route through the conundrum please.

Qyburn

Personally I'm going to stay on flat rate export until I have a few months data.

One point about peak times. We only have a 6kW inverter, all that the DNO would permit. So no matter how much solar power or battery charge, it can't deliver more than 6kW and if our load is greater then the difference comes from  the grid. Typically that happens when cooking the evening meal, which is right in that peak period.