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Re: Smart Meters and Tariffs
Just for interest … this is why I’m saving money bigly on Octopus’ intelligent GO tariff. This is last Friday when we were away on holiday and the weather in the west of Scotland was very sunny. So the consumption graph shows the true base-load for our house, and the export graph shows almost our entire solar generation (less the tiny amount the base-load consumes during the day).
The first screenshot shows kWh used (top graph) and exported from our solar panels (bottom graph). The second screenshot shows the same in estimated cost. You can see that the base load in our house is pretty much consistent, 24 hours a day. The graph bars are per 30 minutes and vary only from about 0.05 to 0.08 kWh consumption. But while the GO tariff increases the daytime kWh cost by around a penny over their flexible tariff, it reduces it by about 17p overnight. And if the sun is shining, then during the day we’re generating about as much as we’re using. We’re quids in.
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