Energy Prices (Strictly NO referrals!)

Stu999 said:
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Ooof, that's pretty rubbish :(
 
After a couple of months I still haven't got my refund from Octopus. They keep making up reasons not to give me one and now want a photo of my meter which I have just sent them. What the hell is the point of smart meters? I am now over a grand in credit and still don't know when I will be getting my money back. So much for great customer service!! I am really considering switching to Tomato's EV tariff now which would save me 20p a day on standing charges alone. If they go belly up at some point then they go belly up, it won't be the first time I have been with a electricity company that failed.
 
john_smith said:
Why is agile so high at the moment? no solar and no wind?
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Lack of wind, but also the underlying market conditions in the UK have not been fixed, so its a case of the market going in a unfavourable direction, overall across the day by UK standards its still alright, but its had better days.
 
For Octopus Go, do you have to have an EV? Or is it like E.on NextDrive, where you can have either an EV or batteries? Currently using the Tracker but Octopus Compare shows that Go would be cheaper, presumably as the batteries would be full of 8.5p/kWh electricity rather than whatever Tracker is that day. E.on should be cheaper again but their export payments seem a bit of a faff (taking a photo of the meter when all the readings are available from the meter :confused:).
 
Neil79 said:
No EV here, I use Octopus Go for the cheapest electric for both over night and day time usage. Storage heaters electric only now charge from 12.30 to 5.30
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b0rn2sk8 said:
15p export on go now.

Technically you need an EV, there are no checks…
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Thanks, accepted the terms for Go and it’s changed tariff straight away. Doesn’t seem to be any more information needed so should be ok. There’ll be some usage of the day rate because of an electric shower but the batteries should cover the rest. Washing is usually put on in what will be the cheap period, so no change there.
 
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Jon20 said:
Thanks, accepted the terms for Go and it’s changed tariff straight away. Doesn’t seem to be any more information needed so should be ok.
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Nice one!

They keep offering me a "CHEAPER" Tarrif, but then you look and it's one of the standard tarrifs with almost double night rate :cry:
 
That is intelligent go.

The standard go terms just state

2.1.3 Octopus Go is designed for customers who either own or have a long-term lease of a battery electric vehicle or a plug-in hybrid vehicle that they will be charging at their home that we supply. If you sign up to our Octopus Go tariff but do not meet any of these eligibility criteria, we can place you on an alternative tariff that we consider is more appropriate for your circumstances. We will let you know if we do this and advise you of the rates and terms that apply to the alternative tariff.
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Seems a dirty high is to blame, or in MET terms, anticyclone weather.

Predicted to stick until potentially the 18th November, we stuck with windless moist cloudy weather until then, jetstream going around the UK to the north.
 
Windspeed here is barely 1mph and been like this for over a week now. The wind turbines on the three wind farms around us are all turning though. No rain for well over a week either and the last we had was just that misty muck not proper rain. As a result the River Spey is extremely low, more hot summer levels rather than the raging torrent we usually have at this time of year.

The gas tracker has jumped again to 5.51p per kWh today.
 
Getting close to bailing time for me.

Octopus Compare reckons Go & Intelligent Go would have been cheaper than Agile over the past month. And that's without shifting demand to Go's cheap hours. E.On Next Drive is even cheaper still.
 
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Yea posted in the other thread, but my solar production for November 2023 was 175kwh for the month.

It's the 10th tomorrow, so a third of the way through the month, and we've generated 9kwh total so far......

I know home solar is a drop in the ocean in the scheme of things, but all the houses with solar panels doing nothing will add up, and add to this.

The tracker has been on, or over the svr for weeks now.
 
I decided to switch to Go tonight. As far as I'm aware there is nothing to stop me swapping back to Agile if the numbers change (unlike Tracker). But as things stand now, Go is cheaper even based on my usage pattern under Agile. It'll be interesting to see if I can widen the gap by load shifting into the cheap period.

E.On Next Drive would be even cheaper. But switching supplier seems like a big move for what could yet be a temporary blip. I'll likely want to move back to Agile by the spring.
 
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McPhee said:
I decided to switch to Go tonight. As far as I'm aware there is nothing to stop me swapping back to Agile if the numbers change (unlike Tracker). But as things stand now, Go is cheaper even based on my usage pattern under Agile. It'll be interesting to see if I can widen the gap by load shifting into the cheap period.

E.On Next Drive would be even cheaper. But switching supplier seems like a big move for what could yet be a temporary blip. I'll likely want to move back to Agile by the spring.
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I was on Go last winter and switched to agile March 24 with the normal Octopus speed of back dating it to 12am on the day of me requesting it. Moved back to Go end of Sept and it was exactly the same.

I think technically all Octopus smart tariffs have a 30 day lockout, thats it.
Tracker is different to stop uber gaming and I guess wasting their time.
 
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