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I got paid to use electricity this morning: https://agileprices.co.uk/ https://agileprices.co.uk/
by jonatron 3y ago
I got paid to use electricity this morning: https://agileprices.co.uk/ https://agileprices.co.uk/
- shaoonb 3y agoDidn't know this site existed. Way better than the Octopus app.
- forinti 3y agoNice time to turn on a bitcoin miner. Is there an API to monitor prices?
- jonatron 3y agoOctopus do have an API: https://developer.octopus.energy/docs/api/ https://developer.octopus.energy/docs/api/
- itsoktocry 3y agoHow have your energy costs looked, overall, over the past 2-3 years? Getting cheaper or more expensive? I ask because I frequently see posts like this one, but then also that Europeans are paying more than ever etc. Hard to figure if we are putting a dent in anything.
- Peanuts99 3y agoI've been on Agile for about 6 months and my average energy price is around 0.22p/kWh which is significantly less than the standard tariff most people get which is around 0.36p/kWh. There's been a few weeks where prices have been higher but it balances out so far.
- uf00lme 3y agoI have octopus agile for electricity and octopus tracker for gas. Been on both since February when my last fixed rate ended. It has worked out great so far, some days when there isn’t much wind can be painful but overall it works out better. Even if it didn’t, I’d rather pay a fair amount than have energy companies rip me off.
- jonatron 3y agoOver the last year, my overall average rate on the agile (time of use) tariff has been about £0.19/kWh. It's significantly cheaper than on the standard tariff, which would have been somewhere between £0.28/kWh and £0.35/kWh approx.
- cjrp 3y agoDo you still pay the same standing charge? That's where a lot of the cost seems to have shifted (on my non-variable tariff at least).
- jonatron 3y agoFor some reason the standing charge is a bit less too.
- ZeroGravitas 3y agoThe higher the standing charge as a percentage of the final cost, the less motivation there is to respond to the price signal, which is part of the point of providing varying prices to the end user.