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m3t4tr0n said:
To my mind (although I have some concern about battery deg) my ideal would be about 20kWh of battery (about my normal daily usage) charged overnight and run the house during the day
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That sounds like high use, we're on like 500kW a month and that's with an EV and a hybrid which is charged every night. Although, saying that, I don't do many miles.

You might not need the full 20kW even if you did that as the afternoon rate is pretty similar to the overnight rate. There are only a couple if times which are bad, 0700-0900 and 1600-2000.

Obviously if you have an EV and that's contributing to the 20kW a day, then you can remove that from the equation.

I wouldn't be too concerned about degradation, it probably won't be more than 2% per year.

Even in the Tesla's they're only losing 12% after 200,000 miles, which is unreal.
 
m3t4tr0n said:
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ThatFragranceGuy said:
HA is like a platform with various integrations so you might have hue, Alexa etc and those things continue on their own but also integrate with home assistant

You generally want it running on something with 24/7 uptime like a nas or a pi device
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I've not looked into that yet, sounds right up my street, but I can't take on any more hobbies yet, I'm maxed out lol.
 
Andy_W said:
That sounds like high use, we're on like 500kW a month and that's with an EV and a hybrid which is charged every night. Although, saying that, I don't do many miles.

You might not need the full 20kW even if you did that as the afternoon rate is pretty similar to the overnight rate. There are only a couple if times which are bad, 0700-0900 and 1600-2000.

Obviously if you have an EV and that's contributing to the 20kW a day, then you can remove that from the equation.

I wouldn't be too concerned about degradation, it probably won't be more than 2% per year.

Even in the Tesla's they're only losing 12% after 200,000 miles, which is unreal.
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No, that's just my peak hours usage, not including EV 😬🤣 ... do I win some kind of prize ?

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Quite a few on the Octopus Facebook groups jumping ship to the fix.

Gas still at 6.4p, electric up to 23.8p tomorrow.
 
Can't see any reason to fix electric at the moment, gas there might be more of a case but I'm staying put at the moment.
 
Is there a site that shows the daily rates for electricity and gas on this tracker? I can't seem to find anything on Octopus.
 
There's a useful site someone has made that allows you to now see your month by month savings and total savings for both gas and elec vs price cap.

Gas Tracker

gastracker.uk gastracker.uk

You need to go to crowdshare and add your api and account number, you can set a nickname to anonymise it.
 
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