Intelligent Octopus Go

[Stinsy]

Yeah, I've stayed on tracker too. Doesn't seem to be anything better out there at the moment.

Unfortunately, gas central heating is our main heating source in a poorly insulated home, so getting a bit expensive lately for not much benefit.

I know it's a good idea to keep an eye on the price though, it seems to be over the 6p/kWh mark a lot of the time lately.

Dont want a £1/kWh shock out of the blue!

Why don't you buy a SH to take the edge off the gas price?

[Richard77]

Yeah, I've stayed on tracker too. Doesn't seem to be anything better out there at the moment.

Unfortunately, gas central heating is our main heating source in a poorly insulated home, so getting a bit expensive lately for not much benefit.

I know it's a good idea to keep an eye on the price though, it seems to be over the 6p/kWh mark a lot of the time lately.

Dont want a £1/kWh shock out of the blue!

Why don't you buy a SH to take the edge off the gas price?

Looked into it, but got sidetracked.

Saw a few cheap ones on gumtree/Facebook marketplace etc but they looked a bit tatty and couldn't really see a place for them in the rooms. Think we will try get through this winter as best as we can, then attack the heat loss and insulation issue during the year, ready for next winter.

Ideally, should have some some solar panels installed by then and will be powering the house with the batteries (30kWh should be with me next week) completely on the off peak rate of 7p/kWh.

So things should improve... Hopefully!

[Krill]

Anyone of you still have a gas boiler and on intelligent octopus go? Can I ask what tariff you are on for your gas? Thanks.

This is me. I stayed on the standard flexible. I don't use gas really, except for a single bath and shower per day. Hot water in a sink is boiled in a kettle via induction. Central heating on coldest says of the year, with an 8kW log burner.

Will likely move onto a zero standing charge tariff once available.

[nowty]

Gas Tracker but hopefully will move to one of the standing charge free tariffs when they come available as we are on less than 1kWh of gas per day.

[Richard77]

Just had an email....

Standard rate increase from 26.870p/kWh to 27.263p/kWh for me from January 1st 2025. Off peak rate staying at 7p/kWh thank god.

North Wales, Merseyside region.

[AE-NMidlands]

Just had an email....
Standard rate increase from 26.870p/kWh to 27.263p/kWh for me from January 1st 2025. Off peak rate staying at 7p/kWh thank god.
North Wales, Merseyside region.

simple Octopus Flux (in the same region, no Go) is up 1.5% on every rate including exports, Flux (off peak 2 to 5 a.m. only) import is now 15.5, day is 25.8 and peak is 36 - if you are inept enough to need it!
Export is 5.1, 13.9 and 27.7. Arbitrage is 9.8 p/unit based on 80% efficiency.

[Stinsy]

Just had an email....

Standard rate increase from 26.870p/kWh to 27.263p/kWh for me from January 1st 2025. Off peak rate staying at 7p/kWh thank god.

North Wales, Merseyside region.

Phew!

The off-peak price is all I care about!

[Yuff]

IOG has started controlling the SoC in the Tesla and the Tesla soc altering the octopus app. It did this a few weeks ago.
Although that was earlier today. I have just set the soc in the octopus app to 80% and the Tesla app Soc was at 50% but moved to 80% and started charging. Turning it back down to 50% in the Tesla app doesn’t seem to have turned it back to 50% in the octopus app at the moment……

[nowty]

IOG has started controlling the SoC in the Tesla and the Tesla soc altering the octopus app. It did this a few weeks ago.
Although that was earlier today. I have just set the soc in the octopus app to 80% and the Tesla app Soc was at 50% but moved to 80% and started charging. Turning it back down to 50% in the Tesla app doesn’t seem to have turned it back to 50% in the octopus app at the moment……

But you can turn the Oct App way down to say 20% with an actual battery at 30%, the Tesla App only shifts down to 50% but the charge does not start automatically (phew) like it did a month or two ago.

[nowty]

IOG has started controlling the SoC in the Tesla and the Tesla soc altering the octopus app. It did this a few weeks ago.
Although that was earlier today. I have just set the soc in the octopus app to 80% and the Tesla app Soc was at 50% but moved to 80% and started charging. Turning it back down to 50% in the Tesla app doesn’t seem to have turned it back to 50% in the octopus app at the moment……

But you can turn the Oct App way down to say 20% with an actual battery at 30%, the Tesla App only shifts down to 50% but the charge does not start automatically (phew) like it did a month or two ago.

I have now noticed that this unwanted re-starting of EV charging which occurred a month or two ago is now back, at least occasionally.

It only affects me if my EV battery is under 50% SOC so I can live with it most of the time.