Max Demian wrote:
On 15/11/2020 11:30, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article
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Tim+ wrote:
Andy Burns wrote:
Tim+ wrote:

I€˜m currently on Octopus Agile which bills you according to
half-hourly electricity rates. Yesterday these rates varied from a
peak of about 32p per kWhr between 4pm and 7pm to under a penny per
kWhr through most of the night.

How far in advance (if at all) do you know what the rate is going to
be?


From 4pm every day you can see what the rates will be for the next 24
hours. If we€˜d had a smart switch for our immersion heater we would have
run that I think as the rate was zero for several hours last night.

Things get interesting when they occasionally go negative and you get
paid for using power during the night.

Isn't life a bit short to have to arrange your day around what power costs
at any particular time? ;-)

So you go hungry just to save money?

Eh? Why would you go that far unless you were really desperate?

We still have a gas hob and havent forgotten how to use it.

Might as well become nocturnal to
benefit from off-peak electricity.


If thats what floats your boat, go for it but theres no need to go to
extremes for most folk to make significant savings.

As Ive said before, its not a tariff that would suit everyone but for
those who have the ability (and the imagination) to be flexible with their
electricity consumption, the Octopus Agile tariff has a lot going for it,
especially if youre an EV owner.

Tim

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