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Charged the car and home batteries - 10.3kWh used x 7p = 72p saved. Did anyone else notice that we were still importing 3.9GW from Europe during the same hour, also, the unit rate was minus -£5.95/MWH. Does that mean Octopus gave us free electricity but made money for giving it away?

I just put a hot wash on, ran the dehumidifier, had a heater on in the lounge (it's cold here), put the immersion on, charged my solar generator (only 200 watts). Used about 60-70p. You are helping balance the grid and I guess it's a bit of an experiment to see how people respond. If it prevents curtailment then it's saving money somewhere along the line.

Informative video as usual Daniel. I exported my battery to the grid earlier in the morning when the import rates (agile) were still higher, I feel better about that as the grid would be less green. I then set my invertor to prioritise export. At 1pm the battery was set to charge, dishwasher and immersion heater on, so I was drawing about 7kWh. It wasn't that sunny only about 1kWh coming in off the PV. If it had been sunny the PV DC to battery would have cancelled out my export, and again it wouldn't have been worth the trouble. I probably netted about 75p

Thanks for the heads up! I managed to get 6.6kWh into my car which is ~22mi, all completely free :) lovely jubbly!

Charged car and had dishwasher and washing on as well as cooking. Had put battery to 100 % to stop it charging car. Accepted Solar was reducing power used. Look forward to hearing how it goes as usually consume from batteries during day. Cheers Andrew

I usually run the house on the solar/battery during the day, but it was quite overcast so my battery was at about 80% and solar not generating much. I charged the car which was at about 70% and took it up to 90% and charged the home battery up to 100%, the dishwasher and washing machine both came on and did a cycle. I cooked my lunch at the same time. Not a lot of money saved but it all helps.

Be useful to know when you have the results how much electricity you used and how much money you actually made.

Not so attractive to those of us on the agile rate, the two half hour rates for me was 4.19p & 3.17p/kwh, so close to free anyway. I’m more interested in when I get negative rates.

Just a thought - you’re pricing your savings at the lower rate but the price of electricity between 1 and 2 would be at the peak rate and that’s what you should get back. Your savings therefore will be a lot higher.

Don't forget that if you have solar and are on say IOG you will usually be exporting at that time. So in fact the baseline Octopus will look at should be negative. So a few pennies more than your calculations.

I have a Solis inverter, and the app is just too clunky to bother changing the schedule for a pound or so. The problem here is that many of the people who can benefit from this (with an EV and home battery) already have solar, and are getting pretty cheap power already.

make sure you don't overload your incoming main fuse, normally 100A. Best not to go over 80A. 😬

Thanks for getting this out in time to be useful.

For me there is no need to strain my inverter so much, so I'll discharge my battery before at 2-3kw for a couple of hours, and then switch to solar charge for an hour or two, before then charging the battery flat out for an hour, there is no need to go straight from max discharge to max charge.

Thanks for the information But what about the VAT you will pay for all the extra KW?

I looked back a few weeks used 0kwh during those times apart from few days ago when prices went negative on Agile so I wonder how they going to work that out. But during the hour would have cost me 0.0419p and 0.0317p, guess I'll get home assistant to charge in the hour and turn off my solar panels. Solar forcast not looking too good either so good timing

Well I don't have an electric car or a battery so will struggle to use up a decent amount. Worse is I'm on Agile and the average over the hour is 3.5p/kWh. An hour isn't enough to run a full washing machine cycle or dishwasher cycle. So at best I'll probably use 2kWh extra or about 7p profit. Once you take into account the washing liquid and the dishwasher tablet it's not worth putting them on unless you planned to do a wash anyway. So on the face of it "free electric" there isn't much to be had, well for me at least.

Do the opposite to a saving session so force discharge in the 2 hours before and recharge in the free hour and the car

I have a GivEnergy system can I divert the solar straight to the grid in this session

We are on Octopus Go Intelligent so our import would be a 22.7p, it’s supposed to be cloudy here tomorrow so say solar gain is 1 kw, one hour with our 7kw EV charger would at a maximum put 6 kw of “free electricity into the car. We could do a tumble load perhaps 1 kw so a total of 7kw. We normally run off the battery with no grid use so no normal import. 7x22.7p =1.58.9p. Is it worth it?, it depends if you want to change battery sessions, switch the Zappi to Boost and help the grid. Monetarily it isn’t going to make much difference over a year. However, it’s the thought given by Octopus to actually do this that is important. Our EV could take some charge tomorrow so we have signed up just to see how it goes.

Thanks Daniel. I will be doing similar to you. Just for fun, there's not much profit Gas boiler for hot water has just now been switched off (normally runs every morning for 1 hour) and instead I will run my Eddi 1-2pm saving 9kWh x 4.35p/kWh of gas = 39.15p. I will charge my car saving 7.4kW x 7p/kWh = 51.8p. I will discharge my battery for 51 minutes in advance (remembering 15% round trip loss) earning 3kW x 0.85h x 15p/kWh = 45p and I will then recharge it for nothing during the next hour However, I will probably wipe out up to 6.5kWh (based on sunny Tuesday) of PV export, losing me 6.5kWh x 15p/kWh = 97.5p of export income Net gain is 39.15 + 51.8 + 38.25 - 97.5 = 31.7p whoopee!

No email for me (Octopus Flux and signed-up). I would have done a dishwasher hot cycle, perhaps a washing machine quick wash, force an early export/recharge for the battery and use the immersion heater for the first time ever.

Will be discharging battery (can export 6kW minus household load) approx 5.8kWhs and charging during the "free hour". Unfortunately the "free hour" coincides with the highest solar gain so fingers crossed it is overcast and can make a modest financial gain.

I got that e-mail as well. I'm really not sure if it's worth all the hassle changing all my schedules to max out the saving for just a 1 hour period at a time when we typically don't use a great deal of power &, whatever we do use is coming from batteries / solar. We do have an EV but it's just too much to consider for very little return plus, a fair chance I'll get something wrong which will land up costing me instead of saving me money!

I have 5 Problems with the reolink camera. 1. The install voice is way to loud and can not be stopped. 2. The Chime/gong is not sold sepradly. 3. I get false Alarms fro Cars driving by although i blocked the street to be ignored. 4. There is NO possibility to open the door. why is that? 5. If someone rings it takes 5 seconds in the app till the picture is visible.

Red light is still flashing, but no water is coming through.

Good explanation. Thank you

Thanks Dan have just had solar system fitted and have applied for export , very useful video

I've had my machine for 3 weeks and never knew I watch your video 4 mins ago thank u

Thanks... It did the job

House System is East West down in not so sunny Devon. East 8 x 420w panels 45 deg pitch West 10 x 420w panels 45 deg pitch Givenergy Gen3 5kwh hybrid 2 x 9.5 battery's July 2024 predicted 930Kwh What a poor month we Made 799Kwh so 131 short on the predicted numbers best day was 11 Jul with 39.50Kwh worst day was 15 Jul with 10Kwh. we had 9 days with under 20Kwh and 9 more with under 30Kwh. June we did ok with predicted 898Kwh and we made 929Kwh so 31Kwh over July has been a bad month weather wise hear in mid Devon

Help please .. I have just had an ashp and new tank etc plus an 8 pv panel solar but without a battery would you still recommend Cosy or could you suggest something better ? Thank you sir.

Thank you for this. Was finally able to get my coffee to run cleanly through the nozzle without spilling everywhere, no new parts required!

East Cornwall 7.38kWp south facing ground mounted array, Production 916.7kWhs Highest day 30/7/24 45.5kWhs lowest day 20/07/24 11.9kWhs. Consumption 217.28Kwhs Import 7.83kWhs Export 677.87kWhs. Bill from Octopus including standing charge £98.67cr

I have an older model, the red comes on (the water icon lights up red) yet when I press the button even for five seconds nothing comes on. Any thoughts? I contacted Tasimo but they are useless. Many thanks.

helpful nice to see 19000 other people have had the same issue

If I use Home assistant, do I need their expensive camera plan to use with my 3 slim cameras? I just ordered 3 and realized afterward that I wasn't going to be able to view live video while travelling - oops :) With Google home their camera plan is required which I'm not doing. I'll just throw them in the trash. Thanks

Forget BT they are Ripoff Mercents make you self a wifi Name and Stong Password on your new Router! Re Use it when you change your provider, Get you own Mesh Wifi, BT whant to lock you in! Don't use BT Email Address use one you thats your own, BT charge to keep a BT email address!

Interesting, I'll do the check on my I3S 120AH... I'm only at 40K miles but I'm reaching the end of my leasing and would like to buy it back.

My parents have a router downstairs next to a phone and also a phone upstairs in their bedroom. They have been notifed bt that are getting upgraded to full fibre soon but are not sure how would work as they still want two phones . I have heard you can get an adapter so am not sure if can use adapter for upstairs and still plug in phone to green port for the downstairs phone .

Fine but find me a BT no that I as disabled person who longer has a landline can get help

Thanks, found this machine in a studio i rented during holidays in Croatia with this problem. Was able to wake up thanks to your video. The previous renters had spilled coffee grounds all around the lid.

3:40 Thanks for showing how to open the battery cover. I was afraid of breaking it.

Wonder if there is a wireless way to connect the sensor. My tank is at back of house and eddi at front with the meter

Thank you. I inherited one from work and this has helped.

Did they keep your old phone line working for long? I heard they are cut off now

Had ours installed early last week .. no reception to the tvs in the bedrooms unless we push the WPS button, then once the tvs are knocked off it loses its reception again .. Vodaphone says, " There's a problem with the TV's. " .. Is anyone else experiencing the same problems ?

Than you you