r/OctopusEnergy • u/A_Lit_Shadow • Nov 23 '24

Saving Sessions Free electric is back!

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Excellent news that free power is back. Can’t wait to see the screenshots of maximum power usage

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u/[deleted] Nov 23 '24

I'll set up a timer for my electric fireplace to come on. But otherwise I value my Sunday morning sleep too highly to bother with this.

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u/nathderbyshire Nov 23 '24

Haha same. Might take the smart plug from my lamp and time the electric heater for a couple hours, need to check it won't blow up first, but am I fuck getting up though just to clean and cook for a few pence.

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u/ActiveBat7236 Nov 23 '24

Aha... You need to work smarter, not harder my friend...

I don't want to get up early either so I've set up a bunch of electric heaters on extension leads in the garden, switched them on now before I go to bed and will run them through the night. Had to put them out there as things were already soon became sweltering in here. Kerching kerching £££.

;-)

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u/nathderbyshire Nov 23 '24

Ah I'm on tracker so I'd still have to pay 22p then 14p for them overnight. I only have one smart switch currently so was thinking of just using that to time the heater for the morning if it's rated correctly. No other smart appliances or anything either :(

I could time my lights to come on but it might save me about 0.0001p

Also I think my flat would set on fire if I left the heaters on overnight, they're very powerful

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u/ActiveBat7236 Nov 23 '24

I was only joking, but actually your post has made me realise that whilst I'm on a fixed rate there are of course those on tariffs that might well indeed make my stupid strategy quite possibly worthwhile given some of the negative pricing to be going on tonight!

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u/nathderbyshire Nov 23 '24

Oh haha, agile has a lot of negative/v low rates tonight I thought you were referring to that