Octopus Go customers frustrated after being given less than two weeks' notice of energy price rises

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Octopus Go customers frustrated after being given less than two weeks' notice of energy price rises – here's what's happened

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MattMattMattUK

Sounds like an attempt to manufacture outrage rather than a genuine consumer complaint.

What are they going to do, sell the EV that is going to cost then 3p a mile and buy an ICE car that will be costing them 25p a mile?

MWT

A bit sad when 'Supplier gives reasonable notice of a price change on a variable tariff' is considered news-worthy.

There should be more and better subjects to feature than this…

iamcurious

Did they get 2 weeks notice of petrol or diesel prices rises when they had ICE vehicles? Ive no issue with EVs but some of the owners seem to think they'd be VED \ road pricing per mile forever just because they bought one.

iamcurious

• they'd be VED \ road pricing per mile free forever

born_again

Less frustrated about the notice given, more about the fact that the mandated April change has now turned into a extra £10 on the bill that we got in March.

Such is life.

All this proves is that the UK energy marketplace is in a real mess & needs a total revamp So that there is no double paying on energy.

EG, paying for gas fired power stations to fire up to produce power for the south, while paying Scottish wind farms to shut down as they can not get the power down south..

Keep_pedalling

Same notice we got when the last price change took place which took the night rate down to its current level, no one was moaning about it then.

TroubledTarts

Hyperbole !

QrizB

I mean, I'd like my electricity to be cheaper and I wouldn't complain if they reversed the change but (as mentioned above) on IOG this has only put off-peak electricity back to where it was on March, ish.

We buy about 3000 kWh / yr from Octopus and the vast majority of that is on the cheap rate. The price increase has added maybe £60 a year to my energy consumption costs.

JKenH

I can’t find any email from Octopus telling me my cheap rate is changing. Last I heard I was on 4.99p until January 2027.

QrizB

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/81974844#Comment_81974844

Go and Intelligent Go come in fixed and variable versions. Which are you on? It sounds like a fixed version?

The variable versions are increasing from May.

Fixed versions should be continuing unchanged. Fixed, even.