Octopus Flux over Winter

Qyburn

Hi,

In the general discussion about flx when it first came out, many said they intended to switch to something else over Winter. I was wondering how many stayed on Flux, and how they got on over Winter.

I think I could make it work with main charge overnight, and a conditional top up just before the peak hours. But interested in others' experience, and pitfalls.

MallyGirl

I am on intelligent flux right now but currently thinking of going agile for the winter. If not I may just go vanilla flux and switch back to intelligent next spring 

Screwdriva

I stayed on Flux last winter. If I had switched over to Agile, I would have saved < £60 all winter.

Given how lucrative the Flux tariff is for net exporter battery-less households like ours (nearing £1K in savings/ earnings this year), I wouldn't want to risk not being let back on the tariff in the future. Plus, it's nice to know we can set the timers on the heavy appliances to run 2-5am daily. 

Qyburn

Screwdriva said:

I stayed on Flux last winter. If I had switched over to Agile, I would have saved < £60 all winter. 

Thanks, but do you mean you'd have been £60 better off by switching to Agile?

Screwdriva

Qyburn said:

Thanks, but do you mean you'd have been £60 better off by switching to Agile?

Less than that if memory serves but yes. 

pete-20-11

I'm in two minds re moving off intelligent flux due to the hassle I had joining it in the first place. 

But I am tempted to try agile for the winter and use an app called predbat (home assistant add on) to manage the battery charging/discharging/export for me. 

Qyburn

pete-20-11 said:

But I am tempted to try agile for the winter and use an app called predbat (home assistant add on) to manage the battery charging/discharging/export for me. 

Does predbat link into Agile pricing? 

Qyburn

I'm not sure how comparable Flux and Intelligent Flux are. With IOF the timings and modes should be manged by Octopus, so you'd like it would be more able to survive Winter. Export rates are higher. But there's no real cheap rate, charging at 20.61p after battery losses won't work out much different from SVR.

Hypothetical just now as Solaredge isn't yet supported.

EcoScruples

I stayed on Flux and will again this winter, what suits is that I can set and forget my battery in the knowledge I’ll get a decent average price per kw.

I didn’t do the calcs as it looked like 10s of £ rather than anything substantial I’d have lost had I have switched.

pete-20-11

Qyburn said:

pete-20-11 said:

But I am tempted to try agile for the winter and use an app called predbat (home assistant add on) to manage the battery charging/discharging/export for me. 

Does predbat link into Agile pricing? 

Yeah I believe so. Probably via the octopus integration.