It's maybe not that simple. Octopus Compare is showing that Agile has been cheaper for me so far this year, and that's without load shifting.
I switched to Agile from Tracker yesterday as I can easily shift my EV charging to midnight onwards, making the savings even larger.
Agile peak pricing has dropped to an average of maybe 25-30p per kWh lately, which really dampens the tariff's traditional drawback.
Yep.
I came to same conclusion in February, I loaded up Octopus Compare, looked at my December readings, there was no load shifting, as I was on tracker, and every day except one single day was cheaper on Agile, Agile over the month was about £6 cheaper, the one day Tracker was cheaper I used my oven twice in 4-7pm "and" had my gaming PC playing a game, and even then kind of like the perfect storm for tracker to win it was about 2p cheaper lol.
I noticed many days because of the algorithm change on tracker, for 21 out of 24 hours a day Agile is cheaper, its only 4-7 pm. So in situations where you running stuff 24/7 Agile will be a clear winner, and even if its somthing jsut spread out over something like 6-8 hours a day, the 4-7pm will be made up by the other hours outside of that bracket.
I would say the people to stay away from Agile is those who work a standard 9-5 and have children, so the kids come home, they on games consoles etc. during those peak hours and for most of rest of day not much is getting used as parents are at work and kids are at school.