Octopus energy

[Leon103]

Yep. I got the email. But leccy (on agile) is essentially free for most of the morning so we're queuing up everything to run tomorrow morning

Do you need solar for agile?

 

[Agentgonzo]

Do you need solar for agile?

Nope.

You don't need anything. You'd be a fool to go on agile without a battery as the 4-7pm rate is crippling, but there is no requirements to choose the tariff

 

[jof]

Also agile is not compatible with some of their feed in tariffs if you have solar.

I've just switched from economy7 to cozy octopus, as even with 10kwh battery, low light levels in the winter & HVAC heat pump running can use it all up by 4pm.
Cozy let's you top up in the afternoon as well.
Its not as cheap as agile, but then with agile you would be constantly changing your charging pattern. And it is compatible with their fixed solar feed in tariff.

 

[Omega]

Free electric tomorrow between 13-14hours

It is going to be free for me anyway because this is the time when I generate on solar...

 

[Agentgonzo]

Also agile is not compatible with some of their feed in tariffs if you have solar.

I've just switched from economy7 to cozy octopus, as even with 10kwh battery, low light levels in the winter & HVAC heat pump running can use it all up by 4pm.
Cozy let's you top up in the afternoon as well.
Its not as cheap as agile, but then with agile you would be constantly changing your charging pattern. And it is compatible with their fixed solar feed in tariff.

"Feed in tariff" is the old (no longer subscribable) tariff were you got paid for what you generate, not necessarily what your export.

I'm not on those as we only got solar this year. But agile is compatible with the 15p/kWh fixed export tariff (what we're on. We switch to intelligent flux in the summer when we net export)

 

[Omega]

Tomorrow is an abnormal day, but it's essentially free for many hours.
View attachment 105017
You can use https://agile.octopushome.net/dashboard
To make up your own mind based on how much it fluctuates

What rate do you sell? Because, based on your link, it looks like I will be selling for around 7-9 pence kWh on Agile , while I sell for 13.13 p/kWh on Flux at the moment before 16:00 and 26.21 p/kWh between 16:00 and 19:00
I wonder if it worth doing it for the winter period when my solar power generation falls by up to 10 times (December vs June)

 

[Agentgonzo]

It is going to be free for me anyway because this is the time when I generate solar power post...

Same here, but I can fill the battery for extra freeness. And put the washer/dryer/oven/fan heater on

 

[Agentgonzo]

What rate do you sell? Because, based on your link, it looks like I will be selling for around 7-9 pence kWh, while I sell for 13.13 p/kWh on Flux at the moment before 16:00 and 26.21 p/kWh between 16:00 and 19:00
I wonder if it worth doing it for the winter period when my solar power generation falls by up to 10 times (December vs June)

Just replied, but we export at 15p/kWh now. Over the winter we're a net importer, so go for the cheap import rate. We are exporting not a lot in October, and very little between 4-7pm given we need the battery capacity to cover the rest of the day.

In the summer when we're a net exporter, we're on IOF which exports at 22 or 29p /kWh (just gone up actually, these were the figures before the price change).

I'm still learning, but about the time you such from net import to net export is when you should change tariff. There are a few good YouTube vids about it

 

[Omega]

Guess I will call Octopus on Monday to understand this better - if I can fix my export, but import on Agile, then I am winning