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 Smart Meters - smokie
I have all of my consumption, tariff and comparable Agile tariff data going back to Nov 2018 when I started with Octopus in a spreadsheet.

For most of that time I was on Octopus Go, which gave me electricity at 13.7p except from 00:30 to 04:30 when it went down to 5p. Ideal for charging my car.Depends on your energy requirements really.

My actual electricity cost was about £40 more under Go than it would have been under Agile. As it happened, most of that was in the first four months - from then onwards the total is about the same.

But then I was optimising my usage according to my tariff. Now I am on Agile I am optimising according to that one, and am really seeing savings. I don't think at the moment I'll go back to Go but I might.

We are tending to not cook the evening meal during the expensive time, though we're not being religious about it. Instead of running the appliances (where possible) in the cheap 4 hours I just find the lowest cost appropriate window(s) and start the appliance (or set it to start) at that time.

Of course having the solar panels adds an extra but pleasant level of "complexity" to planning electricity usage. I got about 10 free miles (enough for a week at the moment LOL) into the car today in between the washing machine and other stuff.

The beauty is it is that in my online account I can see historical consumption up to yesterday and can just switch tariffs back online as and when required, with little delay.
Last edited by: smokie on Sun 10 May 20 at 00:57
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