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I mean, using 18kw during that session saves us about £5.40.
If you have a large, easily controllable battery and the octopus agile tariff, you could fill the battery when you could at the very low prices <3p/kw, and export at high demand times and sell at >30p/kw.
We have the fixed 15p/kw tariff which is excellent in combination with the overnight 7p intelligent octopus tariff.
Any excess solar gets sold, all our home use is from the battery, and car gets charged overnight.We've been paying £25 a month for the last 18 months or so for gas and electric. (covers standing charges) and carrying over £500 credit into the colder months.
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Asked octopus about Agile so many times, won't cover our area, basically no tariff does. And we are on electric resistance heaters as very not easy to install air source pump due to old building, conservation area, only place for pump is gonna be noisy for neighbour and nearest service engineer is a 3 hour drive= would like it, but basically not workable.
So stuck on almost the cap basically at all times. However because there is no incentive to use peak time power, just use the hell out of peak time power when needed. For everyone's loose.
BrickMan
Yeah I think we are entering a short era where those with a home power bank, or electric car can make some gains by being very flexible with their demands. Possibly even make money if you still have an export tariff from years back.
. know various folk on new new estates that can't get decent chargers fitted as local grid basically won't support it