šŸ™Cut your energy bills nearly in half with Octopus Tracker

TurnbullsCans said:
Yeh to save on 39 pages of mostly crap, can you justs give some basic advice about whether itā€™s good to fix or not just now? Iā€™m already with Octopus on their standard variable tariff so far as know
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See my post above

If you're already with Octo it's an easy switch to the tracker and virtually risk free, you can come off it with about a weeks notice And go back to svr.

The first post has all the info about how it works

I wouldn't take a fix now as they're not great rates. If you really want security go for it, but I don't think there is value in it personally. If you do take a fix look for one without exit fees, else they can lock you into expensive tariffs and be say Ā£75 per fuel and can't escape them until 90 days before your tariff ends
 
TurnbullsCans said:
Yeh to save on 39 pages of mostly crap, can you justs give some basic advice about whether itā€™s good to fix or not just now? Iā€™m already with Octopus on their standard variable tariff so far as know
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Or perhaps do your own research?
What ThatFragranceGuy has posted has been his own findings and before I moved I checked what was available against the tracker, I' found it all kosher and I moved, had the meters changed and since have save at leat 33% over a couple of months. You have to be aware of the prices and monitor them but there is no doubt that tracker is cheaper at the moment. Stay alert and you will not be out of pocket.

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This thread has proved to be one of the most useful and informative on this Forum, it's saved countless people hundreds if not thousands of pounds, please don't belittle it's content, there are so many valuable and helpful posts with very sound and researched views.
It's helped me control energy payment's considerably.
 
I think I've saved about Ā£600 since I joined the Tracker back in Feb and that's without having to restrict usage in any way. It's been great.
 
Nano said:
I think I've saved about Ā£600 since I joined the Tracker back in Feb and that's without having to restrict usage in any way. It's been great.
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yeah it's wild. If prices do go up I'll probably just cut usage and stick it through because the savings the rest of the year are so great, we are high elec users so even when gas is cheap as not being used, we are making big savings
 
If anyone hasn't got an electric under sheet for their bed yet mind you're totally missing out. I always thought electric bed stuff was dangerous but apparently that's all the old ones.

We paid Ā£40 for ours last year for a king size but think they've since gone up. Has 6 heat settings, each side of the bed has its own controls and it's got a 1h, 3h or 9h timer mode.

Class getting into a warm bed in winter, and we put it on for the cats during the day now and then

A 100w one uses 0.7kwh to run for 7 hours, although we don't use it for anything like that. Previously we would out the heating on before we got up or turn off just after we went to bed etc.
 
I tried to time my car charging to hit the wind not last night but the night before, as recently on agile they've been paying/ refunding back quite a lot. When the wind came they were paying out 2-5p per kW for a long stint, but I hadn't plugged the car in :LOL: Now high pressure has came, the wind has fecked off and I'm looking at paying out 20p per kW if I need to go anywhere. Bring the wind back :LOL:

As a side note, Dogger Bank wind farm got turned on the other day, it's not fully operational, but that might start to help prices a bit. It's going to be about 1.5GW when complete, the largest offshore in the world I think (for now).
 
I have the Octopus compare app. Is there a way to compare with a tarrif that is at the price cap so you can compare the trackerr with the cap rather than another Octopus tarrif?
 
Emmersons_BrazillianDong said:
I have the Octopus compare app. Is there a way to compare with a tarrif that is at the price cap so you can compare the trackerr with the cap rather than another Octopus tarrif?
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Flexible octopus should be basically like the price cap

But none of the apps do gas which is annoying. Octo aid has a workaround but Involves making an extra profile in the app and setting it up with a price cap product and looking at your ytd then comparing with tour other profile. It had a tariff compare feature, but again just elec
 
Emmersons_BrazillianDong said:
I have the Octopus compare app. Is there a way to compare with a tarrif that is at the price cap so you can compare the trackerr with the cap rather than another Octopus tarrif?
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If you can be arsed to record it each day, set up a simple Excel table with the daily tracker rate v the price cap rate
 
Malaguena said:
If you can be arsed to record it each day, set up a simple Excel table with the daily tracker rate v the price cap rate
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Easier than that; you know the price cap rate, you know what you've used with octopus, just compare the costs you'd have paid on tracker vs what you've paying on Octo
 
Malaguena said:
Nah - just buy a diesel šŸ˜‰
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:LOL: even my top rate is still miles cheaper than diesel.

Didn't even have to do pay that though as we're back to practically free miles again from 1230-1600 today and 2030 onwards tonight. Should get both cars done I think, for about 1-2p per kWh average. 0.3-0.7p per mile for a 4.5 second 0-60 car.
 
Andy_W said:
:LOL: even my top rate is still miles cheaper than diesel.

Didn't even have to do pay that though as we're back to practically free miles again from 1230-1600 today and 2030 onwards tonight. Should get both cars done I think, for about 1-2p per kWh average. 0.3-0.7p per mile for a 4.5 second 0-60 car.
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I know I am playing catchup here on an established thread, but are you on tracker (as per thread) or agile ? I have never dared switch from IO but I do manage to do quite a bit of load shifting so has worked well for me so far.
 
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