Just a heads up, that if you're registered with Octopus for their Octopus rewards scheme such as Octopoints etc, then you can sign up for their brand new scheme which offers free electric between set times of the day when the grid is producing in excess of demand. Cool as this available regardless of your current tariff and lasts for at least an hour.
It won't run every day but will kick in when the grid has excess energy to shift. So great to channel all your washing drying and heavy demand jobs toward this hour and then get it all done for free. Handy for those that do not want to make the leap onto an agile or tracker. You get emailed when they are offering the deal for the next days session. No guarantees of how many sessions are going to be run as it's down to supply.
The energy that is free is the energy used in addition to what you normally had averaged in that assigned given hour.
For ourself, we are now considering moving over to Agile from Tracker as we can easily manipulate usage to fit in with the cheapest time tariffs as we've nothing better to do with our day than than read pie charts, graphs and operate an app.
The only constant in our cave is the fridge freezer, alarm system and also the computer and TV that run always on during our wide awake hours. Be interesting to see if we can cut down on our tracker rate by at least 20% to 25%.
In a similar vein we are manipulating our online food shops, sometimes overspending to qualify for deals from Ocado Morrisons and Sainsbury etc.
I got an extra 10000 more points the other day (£10) for completing 3 shops of £25 or more within their time frame and then another voucher for £10 of a £70 shop came in to the wife's Morrisons account which we also snapped up. On this deal we only placed items to basket with indefinite shelf life, and goods that were already heavily discounted such as Bolds 48 wash for £6.50 making their discount glide even further.
The pantry's on overfill but provisions are a commodity that we all must use so the savings are real. Ocado does not have many offers useful to us at the moment, but we are still on a free 3 month home delivery trial and need to continue on to secure their M&S Hubbard Gold Chicken breast for our Big Kebab nights in. I don't think we will ever go back to using Tesco Aldi Asda produced Broiler birds again after the dreadful shite we had to hack/chop our way through a month ago.
