r/OctopusEnergy

Been on regular octopus Go for years now. Two EVs and two chargers. Rarely need more than the 5 hours overnight so it works fine for us. Have had the latest price increase email today and it suggested intelligent go would be cheaper than the new rate. Used last months figures and the difference is pennies between the new Go rates for me and intelligent go

Am i missing something or is our EV use not sufficient enough to take full advantage of intelligent?

A popular VPP provider recently announced support for my AlphaESS battery and I was very keen and happy to set it up.

Only after setup I noticed Octopus don’t allow VPPs with IOG and only support Charge Pack.

We’re on an old FIT scheme with another supplier from solar and have never exported anything via Octopus before

Questions to the group:

1. I‘m guessing if we continue exporting the battery via the VPP Octopus could cancel/change our IOG contract?
2. We use a lot of (probably over complicated) automations via Home Assistant to manage the battery and IOG charging - I can’t see much online about Charge Pack being available through API etc

As always grateful for others experience!