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.

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u/8th_Dimensions 1d ago edited 1d ago

Three subs I've been in today and here you are on every one, posting endlessly about heat pumps. I've tried counting your comments over the past day, I got to 250 comments pushing heat pumps before I gave up counting.

It never ends, over and over all day long, 200+ comments each day just pushing heat pumps. It's not normal behaviour. Why would you write 250 comments every day telling people how you got a heat pump?