r/OctopusEnergy

Theres seemingky a hold on being able to swap tariff to Intelligent Go.. something about 'not being offered at the moment' if existing customers want to flip over to it..

Only offering more expensive, less hours 'Go'...

Thoughts?

After seeing the latest predictions for the price cap, I decided to fix my gas yesterday for 6.62p/kWh on the May 2026 v2 tariff.

However, sod's law intervened and by the time I'd got home, that fix had been withdrawn and replaced by May 2026 v1 for 6.96p.

I thought I'd try my luck this morning by asking nicely on the phone to switch to the v2, and they said yes :)

So, if anyone else feels like they missed out on that, just give them a ring and you might save a few quid on the heating this winter :)

I'm really hoping that I've made the right decision, but it was the cheapest gas fix I've seen since the Iran shenanigans kicked off...

I love our Gas Aga, wouldn't do without it.

I read a post from 2 years ago about whether to fix or stay on variable rate with a Gas Aga. Consumption is 24600kwh Gas / year and 2,006kwh Electricty / year.

Currently on Flexible Octopus but worried about variable rate price rises in July.

Thoughts?

If you’re thinking of switching energy anyway, you might as well get paid for it — use my link and you’ll get £75 off your bill. Easy win

https://edfenergy.com/quote/refer-a-friend/hostile-shed-7740

I got onto Intelligent Octopus this morning after a few months of arm wrestling and was expecting weird charging and discharging of the battery to help balance the grid all fine.

What I didn’t expect was to not collect any solar while Octopus force discharges my battery.

E.g. I’m Collecting 2kw from solar in self use one minute then Octupus start force discharging 5kw from battery to grid and I get 0kw from solar for the full hour of discharge.

It would make much more sense to discharge 3kw from battery and 2kw from solar. - I feel like this cannot be how they intend for it to work.

I’ve spent the day in the phone to octopus for them to say they will look into it.

Is anyone else having this with a FoxEss Evo10 or any other system?

Heya,

We recently moved to octopus, and whilst everything’s been great so far in terms of cost and service, we have an ev (2020 Hyundai Kona) and a pod point solo 3s. We inquired about going onto an ev tarrif as it was one of the reasons why we moved to octopus, only to be told that they don’t support the car or the charger! I’m quite surprised as konas are pretty popular evs due to their fairly low cost and pod points are common chargers. Is the information we were given correct or is something going on? Could anyone advise what to do to get onto the ev tarrif?

Thanks!

It used to be that if your car wasn’t on their list of compatible vehicles you could still get IOG by getting an Ohme charger, and later other brands.

Looking at the Octopus website now if you select that you have an Ohme charger it will still say that some vehicles are not compatible. Has something changed?

I’m on IOG. I’ve got a Tesla and I have always used the 3 pin charger. I usually never need more than 3 hours of charging a day as I do very little mileage.

Occasionally I have a long trip to do though.

Under the new system where you only get a maximum of 6 hours charging in a 24 hour period, if my battery is very low, could I charge using smart charging at the 7p/kw rate for 6 hours during the day (assuming I get allocated slots during the day), and then turn off smart charging on the app and get an additional 6 hours at the 7p/kw rate from 23.30-5.30?

Hope that made sense.

Thanks.

Hi, my fixed tariff ended a week or so ago and I have been rolled onto the Octopus Flexible Tariff.

Is it worth fixing to the "Octopus 12M Fixed May 2026 v2" which currently works out approx 2-3% more then my current rates, but assume would be cheaper once the predicted July price cap rises by 13-14%?

Current Tariff

12M Fixed

Are your charging times available through the API? Are the set at midnight or can they be pushed randomly?

For background. I'm currently on Agile. I have running some custom automation to pull in prices for both Agile and Cosy to track savings vs Agile. It connects to my inverter and will automatically set charging prices, currently under the export rate of 12p.

I'd like to further improve this with IOG as I have now got an EV. If they're not available via the API. I will have a ball ache sorting this 😄

TIA

I have an Andersen A3 and Intelligent Octopus Go. Most of the time it works ok and charges my car to full overnight and even sometimes "intelligently" gives me off peak rates during the day which is always nice.

But sometimes it goes crazy and decides I don't need a full charge and I wake up to a paltry battery charge. This seems to happen in patches and makes me really insecure about the overnight schedules to the point that I am tempted to either stop using the octopus app and force charging via the Andersen app or start manually boosting in the octopus app.

But if I boost at say midnight do I end up with peak rates even though it's off peak time?

Will boost just charge till I am full of until the intelligence kicks in and decides to stop it and schedule it in?

I had set my car to be ready for 8am but am I better off setting it at like 2am to ensure charging starts and finishes early?

I’m on IOG currently benefiting from 3.5p overnight for charging my car, my fix ends on 30th June so considering what to do next and likely will grab the current 8p overnight rate to start on 1st July, as I’m guessing it will jump again once the July changes kick in.

BUT

On 7th July I’m having 27kWh of home battery fitted, with the plan to charge them on the cheap overnight rates.
Now, I’m also planning to export the excess at peak times to earn some money to offset my import. I’ve run the numbers on GaryDoesSolar and I can turn a profit on my home use to effectively pay for my car charging each month.

So my plan for export tariff was Agile to maximise the value of that export, but are there any other options for what I intend to do? Even outside of Octopus maybe? I’ve seen all the discussions around Eon and EDF for their cheap overnight rates but their export tariffs are much worse.

If you have solar are you staying with Octopus for the export rates?

Thanks

I kindly ask that if you only want to tell me that Octopus don’t accept brown exports (they do) or that I’m wearing my battery out for no gain (I understand that logic but disagree there is no gain) please note that I’ve seen these arguments before. Thanks.

Using HA and have got my immersion heater tied to off peak rates and the binary off peak sensor.

I noticed this morning that while car was charging, the immersion hadn’t turned on:

https://preview.redd.it/kxu0r5t8392h1.jpg?width=1177&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a92186525fbe62878b515753e362369b38ee6845

So, which one / ones are correct?

I thought that BottletopDave’s HA setup recently said to ignore the intelligent dispatching entity and just rely on the off peak binary sensor?

Any thoughts?

It has been an unusually frequent occurrence lately, almost every day, that Octopus has offered me free electricity during the day via Power-Ups.
Now even at weekend; this never happened before.

Anyone else seeing similar frequency?
Does anyone know how these are sent out? Does everyone get them or is there an algorithm to the allocation?

I've had none over the winter, and all of the sudden it's daily.
Don't get me wrong, I'm enjoying charging the car for free, but curious how we get picked.

I understand this is highly localised, but it's sometimes baffling that these come when the tariff (Octopus Agile) is quite high and the renewables contribution to the grid nationally is not that high.

Octopus Power-Ups email invites almost daily