🐙Cut your energy bills nearly in half with Octopus Tracker

[StillCantPickAUsername]

Thanks for all who contributed to this thread. Last 3 months usage was costing me around £600 each month. Current projection is £66 for this month.

Bonkers amount of saving.

 

[ThatFragranceGuy]

Thanks for all who contributed to this thread. Last 3 months usage was costing me around £600 each month. Current projection is £66 for this month.

Bonkers amount of saving.

Yeah it's wild. And yet you'll probably struggle to convince your mates to join it

Not too late to join if anyone is reading!

Full info on first page of the thread or jump straight in;

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Octopus customers pay less: Cheaper than price-cap prices, rewards for using less when the grid is stressed, and smart tariff savings for your home, car or battery

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Remember to join the tracker once live.

 

[Way_Out_West]

Finally on Tracker, backdated 3 weeks to when I first applied.

Electricity looking cheap today (Saturday 19th)

 

[ThatFragranceGuy]

Finally on Tracker, backdated 3 weeks to when I first applied.

Electricity looking cheap today (Saturday 19th)

Fill yer boots at 13.9p! Less than half price.

 

[Ayresome82]

Morning all, thanks for all the advice on this thread. Ive changed over to the tracker, or at least I thought I had. When I have downloaded Octo-aid, and go on to 'my details' it tells me I am on Octopus tracker for Gas, but Flexible Octopus for Electricity. Why would they not have both changed over? TIA!

 

[ThatFragranceGuy]

Morning all, thanks for all the advice on this thread. Ive changed over to the tracker, or at least I thought I had. When I have downloaded Octo-aid, and go on to 'my details' it tells me I am on Octopus tracker for Gas, but Flexible Octopus for Electricity. Why would they not have both changed over? TIA!

I think you manually set your tariffs in octo aid / what does it say when you log into octopus dashboard?

 

[Ayresome82]

 

[ThatFragranceGuy]

Yeah both those should say tracker - get onto them on Twitter they should sort it and backdate

 

[StillCantPickAUsername]

I’m not with octopus for gas, what’s the current rates?

Is it worth moving across cos I’m not getting any deals or anything off my EDF tariff

 

[ThatFragranceGuy]

I’m not with octopus for gas, what’s the current rates?

Is it worth moving across cos I’m not getting any deals or anything off my EDF tariff

It changes daily but 3-4.5p/unit is typical

 

[StillCantPickAUsername]

I’ve emailed em see if I can move across

 

[ThatFragranceGuy]

I’ve emailed em see if I can move across

Am sure will be no problem with it

 

[swordtrombonefish]

Working well - got the new meters installed Wednesday and it's started showing the costs etc today - hopefully we can tune usage & costs from there.
Great shout from TheFragranceGuy - I think he's saved a few people a few pennies - and hopefully earned the split that'll keep him in credit for some time.

Well deserved IMHO.

 

[ThatFragranceGuy]

Working well - got the new meters installed Wednesday and it's started showing the costs etc today - hopefully we can tune usage & costs from there.
Great shout from TheFragranceGuy - I think he's saved a few people a few pennies - and hopefully earned the split that'll keep him in credit for some time.

Well deserved IMHO.

Ignore the costs on the ihd (display device) as they can't keep up with the tracker, but your costs are always lower than that. If you use octo aid or octopus watch you'll have access to correct info and if you join the wait list for a mini you can get live elec data too.

 

[StillCantPickAUsername]

Summat im not sure of, and you’ve probs already mentioned this so I apologise if so, but I can see hourly / half hourly prices on the app, but then also daily. Which one do I plan for?

Only asking as I have an electric car so i previously set a timer to charge overnight but today the daily price was cheaper than tomorrow so if id done that id have been 27% or summat worse off.

 

[ThatFragranceGuy]

Summat im not sure of, and you’ve probs already mentioned this so I apologise if so, but I can see hourly / half hourly prices on the app, but then also daily. Which one do I plan for?

Only asking as I have an electric car so i previously set a timer to charge overnight but today the daily price was cheaper than tomorrow so if id done that id have been 27% or summat worse off.

If you're on the tracker then your prices are daily

Octopus has a ev tariff with half hourly pricing but during peak hours like 4pm-8pm it is quite expensive so you benefit most if you're able to do things like charge your car, do the washing, run the dishwasher etc at 3am, or if you have solar and battery storage. For most users watching tv and firing up the oven and kettle with kids on games consoles etc those will be expensive hours

Even then I think the savings vs tracker are fairly marginal, but with tracker you dont have to think about what time you use things

 

[hewielewie]

Good stuff. You managed to set up Octo aid? That's a really useful app for seeing costs etc

Yeah, cheers mate

 

[sherlock]

Last 3 months usage was costing me around £600 each month

£600 per month? In summer?

Do you have a cannabis farm or something?

 

[ThatFragranceGuy]

Yeah, cheers mate

If you didn't already do it, google octopus mini request form and ask for one of them, takes a bit but gives you live usage info in octo aid and octopus app for electricity

 

[ThatFragranceGuy]

£600 per month? In summer?

Do you have a cannabis farm or something?

It's pretty high, but I've seen some suppliers set people to £500 ish a month if they've had high usage especially if built up a debit balance over winter, and EV's push usage up but no one should be using that amount normally

Had a friend paying £539 a month to eon in a fix but he is a multi generational household with elderly parents running a gas fire all the time etc.

DD amount and "typical user usage" are a red herring though, you always want to go by unit rates alone as the true measure of cost, and we know elec is 30-45% cheaper and gas often runs 30-50% cheaper than price cap so regardless of dd amount (which you can either divide your expected usage by 12 to smooth out, or pay more in winter and less in summer) so that's the measure people need to use for savings

Fairly easy to mock it up in excel as you know all the unit rates and standing charges