How to getthe best out of Octopus Flux

I had considered covering them in some way, but my DIY skills are worse than my coding...

My batteries are located on the side of the house which gets very little sun, which I thought best for the summer. The downside is that they get very little sun.

Looking at my temps over the last few days the batteries have reported a low of 10c. Ideally, they want to be 15c or above to accept a full charge. I'll keep an eye on them over the winter and maybe jerry-rig a Keto outdoor storage box to cover them.
 
So I am currently on Flux but I have been considering switching my tariff, thinking maybe Agile Import and the Fixed export. My standard export rate on Flux is 15.85 so dropping to the fixed 15 is a pretty small drop, especially considering how little I'm exporting at the moment, and not tending to export during the high rate period at the moment (except for during savings sessions) so shouldn't lose out very much on export. Import overnight seems to be often similar to Flux but occaisionally drops down much lower or even negative, so that could work quite well. I've already written various scripts for downloading Agile tariff data, solar forecasts, usage history and controlling my inverter, so should be able to tweak those to charge during the best Agile periods.

Any thoughts? Anyone using those tariffs and how are you finding them? I don't have an EV so Go etc. are not available to me.
 
Tavis75 said:
So I am currently on Flux but I have been considering switching my tariff, thinking maybe Agile Import and the Fixed export. My standard export rate on Flux is 15.85 so dropping to the fixed 15 is a pretty small drop, especially considering how little I'm exporting at the moment, and not tending to export during the high rate period at the moment (except for during savings sessions) so shouldn't lose out very much on export. Import overnight seems to be often similar to Flux but occaisionally drops down much lower or even negative, so that could work quite well. I've already written various scripts for downloading Agile tariff data, solar forecasts, usage history and controlling my inverter, so should be able to tweak those to charge during the best Agile periods.

Any thoughts? Anyone using those tariffs and how are you finding them? I don't have an EV so Go etc. are not available to me.
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You don't need an EV to join Go, you can just switch but you may need to ask Octopus to help as it requires export to be changed as well.
 
Pyr0m@nI@]{ said:
I still don't have an export MPAN, but Octopus was able to swap my tariff from Flux to Go.
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When did you apply? I see you live not far from me, here is my timescale.

03/10 - Solar installed
06/10 - Moved from EDF to Octopus
09/10 - Signed Connection Agreement received from SP Energy
12/10 - Completed Outgoing application, attached MCS Certificate online
20/10 - Email from SP Energy with my Export MPAN
07/11 - Chased Octopus by email, response the same day saying soon
10/11 - Octopus email confirming export rates are now live and requested a photo of meter readings

Out of interest, did you need to make a generation application?
 
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My (our?) DNO, SP Energy Networks responded pretty much the following day to any requests.

Have you received any emails from them yet? I had a Design Coordinator chap from SP Energy Wirral Design team who emailed me the completed application to sign via docusign which also went to the installer. The only slight delay was it took the installer a day or two to pay SP Energy the application fee.
 
I've had to sign a couple of docusign things. One for the solar contract, One for the G99 letter of authority and then the G99 commissioning form A3-1.
I've had the G99 commissioning form back and the MCS cetificate.

I've just rang MyEnergy to query the export MPAN and they have said they will send another message to the DNO. *shrugs*
 
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Pyr0m@nI@]{ said:
I've had to sign a couple of docusign things. One for the solar contract, One for the G99 letter of authority and then the G99 commissioning form A3-1.
I've just rang MyEnergy to query the export MPAN and they have said they will send another message *shrugs*
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Sounds like it's all there, just waiting to be processed.
 
HungryHippos said:
You don't need an EV to join Go, you can just switch but you may need to ask Octopus to help as it requires export to be changed as well.
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You can change the export yourself via their export tariffs page, had to do this myself when I changed export to agile fixed as they said they couldn't help me over phone.

I went from flux import and export to flexible variable import and flux export then to agile import and flux export before I thought id better not risk any grief and change the export over to agile.
 
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I'm not on Intelligent Go.
I was advised by Octopus that Octopus Go would be better during the winter while I'm not exporting much, then to switch to Flux in the spring or something.
My current import rates on Octopus Go are
00:30 - 04:30 @ 9p/kWh
04:30 - 00:30 @ 31.41p/kWh

Because I'm on Octopus Go, I'm being signed up to Outgoing Fixed Lite for export.
 
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Pyr0m@nI@]{ said:
I'm not on Intelligent Go.
I was advised by Octopus that Octopus Go would be better during the winter while I'm not exporting much, then to switch to Flux in the spring or something.
My current import rates on Octopus Go are
00:30 - 04:30 @ 9p/kWh
04:30 - 00:30 @ 31.41p/kWh

Because I'm on Octopus Go, I'm being signed up to Outgoing Fixed Lite for export.
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Intelligent is better than Go but you need a compatible EV/charger, if you have one, then it's a no-brainer over Go as the rate is less and the duration off-peak is longer (6 hours vs 4).
 
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