Pricing via Octopus Agile
Does this actually mean that your bill goes down?
this post was submitted on 30 Jul 2023
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If you’re on variable pricing, it should.
Yep, Octopus Agile. So far I’ve been paid about £0.30 for my usage this morning. Reckless usage, I’ve got everything turned on.
Are you serious? You literally just turned everything in the house on?
It might sound like wasting power but the reason the price is negative is that there is too much production or to put it another way not enough load on the grid. OP is doing exactly what the grid wants, though I think I would try and use it for productive means if I could.
If it makes you feel any better, some devices in the house are being used for good, like keeping some baby rabbits warm.
I'd charge that car!
What sort of prices are you getting in the middle of the night?
How high do the prices go at teatime?
So far the highest I’ve seen is 46p. 12p over my old rate. But these only seem to last for an hour at most. You can view public data on various sites like: https://agileprices.co.uk
Thanks.
Octopus are now on week 13 out of an estimated 6 weeks to fix my IHD not being able to maintain a connection and constantly rebooting itself.
I keep getting updates every 2 weeks saying the engineers are still working remotely on my meter.
I know this is unrelated but I saw octopus and well I am somewhat annoyed at this point.
Go fight the CEO
Although they are an actual octopus.
If it's just the IHD with problems, don't worry about it. Mine is in a drawer somewhere. It doesn't do anything.
I don’t know, but Octopus are no longer receiving smart meter data from me (and vastly overestimated my bill after I was away for a month).
I assumed the IHD was receiving data from the meters and pushing it to the account, is that not how it works?
No, the meters communicate directly over a mesh network setup between neighbouring meters. I think somewhere they'll be a cell tower connection or something.
The IHD is solely for you to look at, or not.