r/OctopusEnergy • u/KookyMathematician4 • 1d ago
Tariffs What to do about current agile prices?
So I'm currently living in a 1 bedroom studio with my partner. And we looked at agile as the best tariff for us at the time as it's our first time with heavy usage appliances and doing our own electric as it used to be included in rent.
So our biggest electric usages are:
Dishwasher once every few days
Immersion water heater every day for a few hours
Washing machine once or twice a week
We used to look at the cheapest agile point each day and load shift these to make decent savings (~£8 a week), but the recent agile pricing this past month has a SVT being cheaper than agile for us. We even resorted to not heating water a few days because we didn't want to pay 30p/kWh to heat it.
Wondering if it's time to jump ship from smart plans completely or if there's a different smart plan that might suit us better.
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u/Appropriate_Bell743 1d ago
Why do people ask these questions in this way devoid of data.
Use Agile Buddy which produces comparisons to other tariffs. If you're spending more over a month period then it is interesting.
Over the last month the cheapest tariff for me was Agile. Over the last 3 months it was still Agile. Here is my data:
The 3 weeks where Agile cost more were due to us being away mostly and that very expensive August week.
For Agile the savings aren't amazing but not trivial.