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I think you need to give it a prolonged amount of time, and keep an eye on your averages. If you average about even over the winter and can make savings in the summer then it's all good
 
Just had a notification from Octopus;

"Agile rates, Highest rate 99p, lowest rate 23.4p tomorrow"

That's made my mind up. I've made the switch to Tomato, go live on Monday.

Keeping my gas with Octopus Tracker ATM, so I'm allowed to stay on this thread 😀
 
The_Tiler said:
I tend to charge my car at work about twice a month, and maybe once a month at home, unless going long distances at the weekend. It's being charged more often in the winter because I'm using the heaters and the range takes a battering.

I've tracked the Agile for the last six months and there's no difference for me between that and Tracker. Load shifting isnt really an option for me for various reasons.
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You charge your ev only 3 times a month?
 
Robborevolution said:
@ThatFragranceGuy if like me you didn’t have an EV and were on the tracker would you be sticking with it or looking at something else? The tracker has saved me a fortune although that did reduce when I moved earlier this year. The last 3-4 months have been very similar to cap and obviously next few days will be very expensive. I have taken view to date that a few bad days are nothing compared to savings made but does seem overall to be a lot less advantage to tracker in recent months so interested in your take
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I'd wait a little while to see what happens once nuclear comes back on line then take a data based approach and compare actual time of use tariffs like agile and tomato and compare to tracker 30, 60 days etc. if you can't or don't want to load shift then ships likely not that great for you, but tomato not much better I guess if not using the cheap slots specifically
 
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Robborevolution said:
@ThatFragranceGuy if like me you didn’t have an EV and were on the tracker would you be sticking with it or looking at something else? The tracker has saved me a fortune although that did reduce when I moved earlier this year. The last 3-4 months have been very similar to cap and obviously next few days will be very expensive. I have taken view to date that a few bad days are nothing compared to savings made but does seem overall to be a lot less advantage to tracker in recent months so interested in your take
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No sense in you moving to Tomato or any other time of day usage unless you are load shifting a fair amount to the cheap slots.

Given you're not using an EV, Tracker makes most sense for you unless you're worried about the ups and downs. Tracker will get cheaper as the weather warms up and you'll still see savings
 
sherlock said:
This couple of days so far is about the only time tracker has gone well above the price cap in the last year. The rest of the time it has been below, sometimes well below.

I don’t think it makes much sense jumping ship the first time this happens for a day or two.
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Depends whether you are a “Sack Octopus” fan!
 
Not sure if this has been mentioned but there is an Octopus Compare App which can compare your tariff with other Octopus tariffs.
 
hewielewie said:
Not sure if this has been mentioned but there is an Octopus Compare App which can compare your tariff with other Octopus tariffs.
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Once or twice 😂 good advice though, not just octopus either as you can enter custom tariffs even by half hour slots so you can compare stuff like tomato to see how but stacks up to each octo tariff historically etc which is very useful
 
Have we got many people who have already switched to Tomato? (I know some are considering it) How have their experiences been so far?
 
ThatFragranceGuy said:
Once or twice 😂 good advice though, not just octopus either as you can enter custom tariffs even by half hour slots so you can compare stuff like tomato to see how but stacks up to each octo tariff historically etc which is very useful
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Will have a look into that. I have an EV but dont charge it every week. I compared Tracker to Agile and Tracker came out cheapest by a few quid
 
Alzi said:
Have we got many people who have already switched to Tomato? (I know some are considering it) How have their experiences been so far?
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I switched yesterday.

So far all seems ok. Signed up via their website, chose the tariff and date to change over. I chose next Monday.

Had an email confirming immediately then another from Octopus confirming.

Once it all up and running I will take out some of the credit built up with octopus and add it to the Tomato account.
 
Fat_Dragon said:
Plans for energy tariffs with no standing charges.

www.bbc.com

Energy bills: Plans for new tariffs with no standing charge

Energy firms will be forced to offer the new tariffs under a proposed shake-up of bills by the regulator.
www.bbc.com www.bbc.com
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Seems like a good idea, if it's implemented the right way.

I just hope it doesn't go the way of, low users end up paying the same, high users and businesses end up getting fleeced. Business tariffs are already shocking as it is.

If say the average kW used is 6000 @ 20p = £1200 and people pay ~£200 a year in standing charges then this should mean standing charges are only 1/7th of the total, which means the unit rate should only go up 1/6th or 17% , so like 3p.

You can bet your **** they go up by ~25% or ~4p though, any change is a profit opportunity.
 
The_Tiler said:
I switched yesterday.

So far all seems ok. Signed up via their website, chose the tariff and date to change over. I chose next Monday.

Had an email confirming immediately then another from Octopus confirming.

Once it all up and running I will take out some of the credit built up with octopus and add it to the Tomato account.
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Do you know that Tomato don't charge you the same way as other energy companies.

When you pay by direct debit they don't charge you an average over the year so you pay the same each month and build credit up. They use flexible direct debit and charge you exactly what you use each month, so you will never be in arrears or credit.
 
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