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They only seem to display the end of month readings, and the current day.

I dont recall exactly how long it took for the current day to appear, a week or two maybe.

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Thanks, do you bother to send any manual readings in? I never did with Octopus but I think I may do a few days before I get billed when I figure out what my bill date is.

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Nope, never sent a manual reading, no need.

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Just had my £249 back off Octopus so quite quick all things considered

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Nice, I've no idea when I'll get mine. Did your last bill from Octopus say final bill because mine hasn't but I am billed upto the day i switched?

So they shouldn't take another direct debit because I am £162.24 in credit but I don't trust them after the last error and don't want to cancel the direct debit just yet.

I've just emailed them to see what happens.

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Since I fixed with Outfox last week their current fixed rate is 22.74p and mine is 24.89p for Electricity, I was expecting the unit rates to increase.

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On holiday at the moment, so not a true representation of real life, but on Saturday the solar panels exported £3.06 of electricity while the batteries cost £0.49 to charge overnight. Bodes well for the summer, when I'm expecting the monthly bill to actually be a credit.

I'm thinking we're looking at >£450/month savings over the year as a whole when you factor in the £300 or so a month we no longer spend on petrol since going electric with the car too. I won't know until this time next year as we've just had building work done so been heating the house with fan heaters etc and had dehumidifiers going for all the plaster and concrete screeds. Big changes done and hope the underfloor heating saves some money on the gas bill too.

When we get some more money together we're hoping to add another extended on the back of the house and at the same time install a heat pump and air conditioning.

Also, because of the batteries, our usage is so low during weekday peak hours, EDF give us 16 hours of free electricity every Sunday. But on a sunny day it'll be better to export at 15p a unit and still consume off-peak at 8p a unit. I need to sit down and work out when the crossover will be - over the last few weeks we've been able to hit around 150kwh of free electricity on Sundays, but that's almost using it for the sake of it.

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Outfox have now pulled their fixed rate tariffs.

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Not surprised after todays news

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Octopuses are still available but it's for 10 months.

If anyone is on the fence on what to do they should seriously think about fixing today if they're able to.

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Been saying that for a few weeks now . Gave up on it

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My fixed deal is starting to look like a good decision.
I wasnt sure taking one for two years was a good idea at the time.
I've never taken one for that long before, but atm, its proving to be an excellent deal.

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Cornwall Insight is predicting that the July to Sept Price Cap will rise by 20%.

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Next week Intelligent Octopus Go is dropping its electricity rates - day rate down from 28 to 26, night rate down from 7 to 5p. Just in time for us becoming an all-EV household. :D

We charged both simultaneously last night for the first time. It looked something like this ….

https://www.cableforum.uk/board/atta...1&d=1774551457

That’s the big one on our 7kW wall box and the little one on a 3kW three-pin granny charger. The dishwasher is also on, taking advantage of cheap rate running overnight.

So we’ll be sucking the national grid dry on a nightly basis and thankfully avoiding the disastrous prices the local garage is now charging for petrol.

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The image (attachment) you linked to doesnt exist.


I got my new kWh rates from Outfox today, Gas = 4.971p, Elec = 16.603p

Both are inclusive of VAT.

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Very good Electricity rate, I've not had notification of my new rates yet.