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.
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.
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.
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 Thermal Camera loan offer - still waiting…
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…