Energy Prices (Strictly NO referrals!)

[HungryHippos]

Time to move to octopus, can anyone ping me a tarrif recommendation

Do you have EV/heat pump/solar? That will change things a bit.

If not, then tracker (gas and/or electric) or agile (electric only) are options as well.

Pretty much all of this needs a working smart meter.

 

[Mercenary Keyboard Warrior]

@Siliconslave go tariff now if you can. I would have said flex but IMO its a bit too late to bother now.
Btw check my battery update if you haven't seen it. Quite worrying.

 

[HungryHippos]

Yeah if you got solar/battery go or intelligent will probably be better, I'm planning to come off Flux in like a month so it's not a great time to jump onto it.

 

[Siliconslave]

Looks like i'll be going intelligent (once signed up) but I wonder how it'll work with charging the car from the solar during the day

 

[Mercenary Keyboard Warrior]

Looks like i'll be going intelligent (once signed up) but I wonder how it'll work with charging the car from the solar during the day

Didn't realise you had an EV but in that case intelligent is probably the best indeed.

 

[HungryHippos]

Looks like i'll be going intelligent (once signed up) but I wonder how it'll work with charging the car from the solar during the day

Cheap overnight for car or battery, seg doesn't pay much for export so may as well use as much as you can.

 

[Siliconslave]

Got 6.4p export through bg and intelligent will charge 7.5p overnight so well worth erring towards overcharging the battery rather than paying 40p during the day!

 

[bigmike20vt]

Looks like i'll be going intelligent (once signed up) but I wonder how it'll work with charging the car from the solar during the day

you just need a compatible charge point and it works. I have a zappi and you set it so once you are exporting over 50w (this is so your house battery and house get priority) it diverts the excess to the car. you have 2 settings eco+ which only uses the sun (within the limits of the system to react) or Eco which uses the sun as much as it can but will use the grid or your battery as well rather than stop starting.

 

[SixTwoSix]

Anyone moved over to Octopus tracker lately?

Joined wait list in June, got an email first of July telling me my smart meter had to move to single rate, do I agree - replied to say yes.

2 days later, sorry, email was wrong, click and follow this link - did it, now just waiting to hear back. I know it's only a couple of weeks but they were so quick with everything else over the last few years, guess they've spoilt me a little bit on expectation from them

They did state however, all bills would be backdated to 1st July even if the tariff doesn't change for a while.

 

[The Angry Welshman]

Anyone moved over to Octopus tracker lately?

Joined wait list in June, got an email first of July telling me my smart meter had to move to single rate, do I agree - replied to say yes.

2 days later, sorry, email was wrong, click and follow this link - did it, now just waiting to hear back. I know it's only a couple of weeks but they were so quick with everything else over the last few years, guess they've spoilt me a little bit on expectation from them

They did state however, all bills would be backdated to 1st July even if the tariff doesn't change for a while.

mine was done before 7th july as per their email. give them a call, they pretty good at sorted things while you talk to them

 

[dlockers]

I'm looking to save a small fortune. On EON I was on eco7 which meant day energy was 50p a kWh. I've moved to Octopus Go now, which means 30p a kWh in the day and 4 hours at 9p a kWh. That should be sufficient to keep the EV happy!

Is it still worth putting gas on the tracker or not? I mean 7.5p is pretty inexpensive given its summer...

 

[Siliconslave]

you just need a compatible charge point and it works. I have a zappi and you set it so once you are exporting over 50w (this is so your house battery and house get priority) it diverts the excess to the car. you have 2 settings eco+ which only uses the sun (within the limits of the system to react) or Eco which uses the sun as much as it can but will use the grid or your battery as well rather than stop starting.

We've only got a plugin hybrid (Seat Leon) with the granny cable charger - its fine for what we need and charges in about 4hours overnight. The car is compatible with intelligent so we can use the mains plug, but going to be interesting to see what happens if they (or we) try and trigger charging during the day when the solar is covering all the usage

 

[ci_newman]

I'm looking to save a small fortune. On EON I was on eco7 which meant day energy was 50p a kWh. I've moved to Octopus Go now, which means 30p a kWh in the day and 4 hours at 9p a kWh. That should be sufficient to keep the EV happy!

Is it still worth putting gas on the tracker or not? I mean 7.5p is pretty inexpensive given its summer...

Gas tracker is ~ 4.5p/kWh - still a decent 40% or so saving for doing nothing

 

[Firestar_3x]

Gas tracker is ~ 4.5p/kWh - still a decent 40% or so saving for doing nothing

Yep still a great saving, average for me over the past 44 days is 4.21p/kWh.

 

[The Angry Welshman]

Gas tracker is ~ 4.5p/kWh - still a decent 40% or so saving for doing nothing

its 3.7 today......so even more savings

 

[robgmun]

My switchover to Octopus completes today, where is this free spin thing I keep hearing about?

It shows up at the beginning of the month

 

[Siliconslave]

It shows up at the beginning of the month

I just got it this morning when I put my initial meter reading in (no I didn't win )

 

[robgmun]

Seems like the tracker prices are generally trending downward. I've been loving it so far. Before 1st July my IHD was regularly going over £7 per day. Now it struggles to get to £3-£4 per day. Feels like a bit of normality has returned.

 

[HungryHippos]

Seems like the tracker prices are generally trending downward. I've been loving it so far. Before 1st July my IHD was regularly going over £7 per day. Now it struggles to get to £3-£4 per day. Feels like a bit of normality has returned.

Winter may not be quite so rosy as we'll be vulnerable to price swings from external factors (and demand for gas will be higher natively due to time of year).

I'll carry on riding the tracker for now though.

 

[Raymond Lin]

So Octopus is the one to go for? I have duo fuel with Scottish Power at the moment, not sure who is the cheapest. Would be better if i can do both together.