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Smart Meters and Tariffs
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Old 22-11-2024, 10:53   #661
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Re: Smart Meters

Unless you have special requirements I really don't see the home display as that useful.

In other news. The energy cap is going up again in January. This doesn't directly affect tracker and agile but it probably means the prices will trend upwards.
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Re: Smart Meters

Energy regulator Ofgem is urging billpayers to shop around as it announced another price rise in January - the second of the winter.

Someone paying by direct debit and using a typical amount of gas and electricity will pay £1,738, or £21 a year more, with bills now over 50% higher than pre-Covid levels.

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2 calls yesterday, and 2 more already today from very thick-accented Indians.

"I am calling from Scottish Power to arrange the change of your meter to a smart one".

"No thankyou".

Hang up.
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Old 22-11-2024, 14:50   #664
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Re: Smart Meters

Changed to a 12-month fixed price deal with Octopus early October, with no penalty for cancelling early.
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Changed to a 12-month fixed price deal with Octopus early October, with no penalty for cancelling early.
Surely that is more expensive if you have an electric car?
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Re: Smart Meters

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Old 23-11-2024, 00:03   #667
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Changed to a 12-month fixed price deal with Octopus early October, with no penalty for cancelling early.
I switched to the fixed 12M for Gas last week as Tracker edged ever upwards, at 5.68p the fixed is pretty good value.
I cant see the current price going lower than that much for a while (if at all) and neither can OFCOM it appears - hence SVT (i.e. Price Cap) will go up again in Jan 2025.

Still happy with Agile for Electric. Its not been a great month so far for savings, I have overpaid slightly some days, underpaid other days, over the whole month I'm 8p worse off as of yesterday - the next few days will correct that as all the wind power is driving prices down (into negative again late tomorrow). That'll boost my savings over the month.
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Re: Smart Meters

2hrs free Electricity tomorrow between 7&9am with Octopus...... I'll try and switch on my emersion heater to heat the hot water and put some washing on but that means setting the alarm on a Sunday!
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Old 23-11-2024, 16:18   #669
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Re: Smart Meters

Octopus are negative rates for the majority of the time between 10.30pm tonight and 9.30am tomorrow (i.e. paying me to use electricity). Monday may be similar from the look of Sunday evening, when they go negative again at 10.30pm.
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My Tracker is only 14.84p tomorrow too.
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Wonder why EDF put up electric because gas price rises thought there's was all renewable. Not that the rise bothers me at all
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Gas sets the price of electricity, because the electricity price in every half hour period is set by the marginal cost of the last generating unit to be turned off to meet demand – which is invariably a gas power plant with high marginal costs.

To provide an analogy, think of a penalty shootout in a sporting competition. A team will select a list of individuals in order of preference, with the best individuals selected first (i.e., renewables). But it’s the individual who steps up last who has the final say, deciding the fate of the result.
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Got the emersion heater and washing machine on so using 3000w, and done the sensible thing and got back in bed.
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Got the emersion heater and washing machine on so using 3000w, and done the sensible thing and got back in bed.
All this obsessing over meters doesn't sound the most interesting of hobbies. Get a weather station instead, they are much more fascinating to read
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All this obsessing over meters doesn't sound the most interesting of hobbies. Get a weather station instead, they are much more fascinating to read
It's the same thing at this point. "Oh free electricity tomorrow? there must be a storm coming"
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