Soldato
There's loads of tabs at the top, select Tracker and it will ask you to select your area.
Standing charges you can find on the Octopus site, mine for example are 47.5E, 26.84G.
There's loads of tabs at the top, select Tracker and it will ask you to select your area.
Standing charges you can find on the Octopus site, mine for example are 47.5E, 26.84G.
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Personally I use this site and like the way it presents the data, can go back by 365 days and scales very well on phone:
https://gastracker.uk/
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Soldato
Yeah that looks a lot cleaner, and as shown basically always under cap so far, just the risk it can go above, but enough time under cap means it's saving you money on all of those days.
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The crowdsourced savings data is interesting too - mine is mingled in there as i've given them api access to get my usage data.. but from real user data its calculated an average saving of £850 over the past 12 months for detached homes users vs SVR rate.
9K lol
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Octopus Energy - more middle fingers required
We had a smart meter installed on 24 July. Credit on the account had grown steadily to the point of £1100 due to monthly DD being higher than annual consumption /12 so dropped our DD and asked for some credit back. They couldn't process it so reached out on Twitter. Hi Mark, Thanks for...
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I love reading posts from tin foil hat wearing anti smart meter people.
There’s some gems in that thread.
There’s some gems in that thread.
"I don't have smart meters. Here's a tip for you, when Octopus ask for you to send the meter readings in just ignore the messages and e-mails they just charge you the average bill for houses in that street."9K lol
Octopus Energy - more middle fingers required
We had a smart meter installed on 24 July. Credit on the account had grown steadily to the point of £1100 due to monthly DD being higher than annual consumption /12 so dropped our DD and asked for some credit back. They couldn't process it so reached out on Twitter. Hi Mark, Thanks for...
Probably the worst advice in that thread. At the end of the day, it wasn't the smart meters themselves that caused the problem, it was human error - which is one of the reasons I encourage smart meters, as humans can and do make mistakes.
To be fair a lad did call him out lol. Seems like a forum for real plonkers, which gives us hope for GD.
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I'm against the smart meters. Sure they can be helpful, but for me monthly meter readings work fine. Don't fix what isn't broke.
Soldato
get better smarter tariffs with smart meters......why are you against them??
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Don't do it, never engage in this conversation. It's a trap.
The more people not on smart meters then more people with them will benefit with "experimental" cheap rates.
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I'm on the Octopus tracker so haven't had an issue with rates so far. If anything significant changes for the worst, then i'll get one.
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How are you on tracker when that product requires a smart meter sending daily readings?
Soldato
It didn't always require one, it didn't back when I joined it, but they added it as a requirement earlier this year.
Before then, monthly snapshots of readings was fine, and it would just average your usage out across the days.
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Can confirm this is true.
Soldato
Biggest advantage for me getting smart meters is I don't have to fumble around in a half buried spider infested box in the rain to read the meter.
Soldato
Honestly it's a bonus for sure, the IHD can be useful as well to track what current usage is like, see if you got anything running off with the power.
Since I added solar though the IHD is basically useless now because it can go negative, or is not using much as battery feeds load
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Honestly it's a bonus for sure, the IHD can be useful as well to track what current usage is like, see if you got anything running off with the power.
Since I added solar though the IHD is basically useless now because it can go negative, or is not using much as battery feeds load
Also useless on tracker I think as it can't deal with changing prices daily. At least it was the case a year ago.
Soldato
No it definitely can't, but you can still see kWh usage and sort of work the rest out yourself, was always handy before.