Octopus Saving Sessions

I still keep checking to see if it’s worth switching to Go or not.

Aside from the car (a bit) and the washing machine I’m not sure what else I could switch to use in the early hours of the morning.

When I then look the off peak and standing charge is more expensive than what I pay currently.

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Go (my area)

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I know what you mean. The ‘intelligent’ tariffs (basically clever Economy7) don’t stack up as much nowadays thanks to the energy squeeze.

I was on Agile a few years ago. Got paid to use energy from time to time.
Switched to Go once Agile became a little expensive.
Then switched to Intelligent Octopus once Go became a little expensive.

IO isn’t much cheaper other than extended ‘guaranteed’ off-peak slots, plus ‘random’ off-peak slots on top of the guaranteed ones. It’s driven (!) by car-charging use though.

Now it’s all expensive. Even with ‘smart tariffs’ the control is clearly being reigned-in. But there’s always a loop-hole to pursue and I keep on looking.

Not bad to say I’ve not tried or changed anything!

I don’t recall missing one though…

All those points are worth a whopping £2.57

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£1.60 here. Raking it in.

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Probably the great festive light switch on :rofl:

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Edit: Oh wait that’s @davidwalton’s I’m looking at!

I can only assume on ours that we were all out :person_shrugging:

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Same I’m on the waiting list for one :neutral_face:

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That’s correct 5th one tonight

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Oooo I just signed up - thanks!

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Annoys me the app just doesn’t tell me anyway.

Shows figures in £ now but excludes standing charge and VAT yet has all that information to hand.

Making more hard work for themselves :upside_down_face:

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Opted in, but probably won’t be bothering with it going forward apart from the very easy things - putting dinner on at 7:00:01 for example.

I use £15 a week on electric, so when I took it seriously I saved 32p, it’s not really worth it for me as a super low user however I am a fan of the initiative.

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I wish we used so little. We’re nearly 5x that :sob:

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Bang on the same as last week for me, we never use the oven always the air fryer/ gas hob, smart plugs turn everything off when not in use. All bulbs LED which helps.

Gas was expensive at £30 though, but this is going to be the worst of it this week.

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Been on the waitlist since they ‘launched’ at the end of May - still no ETA, unfortunately.
No API access through - it only reports through the Octopus app, so can’t tie into Home Assistant for automation (until some clever peeps figure that one out)

A bit like the :octopus: Thermal Camera loan offer - still waiting… :ice_cube::cold_face:

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General update on the sector as a whole

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Does it replace an in-home display, or supplement it?
Not sure I’d want to give up the in-home display for this.

I saved 42% on the last session and earned 64p the only thing I did was cook later (not intentionally).

I still think for a low user it’s not really worth participating, but if it works around me great however I still really like the concept and seeing people save £20+ is only a good thing

I’ve only managed to scrape to 1692 Octopoints so far.

Although the Streaks are building up to hide the fact that one session was ‘0 points’ (big red thumbs down icon). Haven’t won the £500 spot-prize yet either. If at first you don’t succeed…

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I actually signed up to this a few days ago but have not received any of these “Sessions” :sob:

You have to opt in to each one annoyingly. I did the first one, the small amount wasn’t worth the effort to implement it to our day so it’s a pass. :joy:

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Do they not tell you when it is, I assumed youd get an email or notification but I havent hmm

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