Krill wrote: ↑Wed Jan 10, 2024 5:00 pm
This isn't strictly true as the costs change between winter and summer.
It is still better to just go IOG, cheap charge the battery and export generation as it happens. And it will be for a very long time tbh, even without the tricks available.
They don't say how or when they change, just give the curent rates, and you can't get IOG without an EV!
Having looked through my paperwork and notes of conversations, I now realise that they shouldn't have been proposing it as a new tarrif at all, it was mentioned to me a few months ago. The idea is that you swap tariffs twice a year:
(simple/ordinary) Flux in winter, which has import rates of 17.74p 2-5am then 29.57 the rest apart from 41.1 in the evening peak, but export of 6, 18.57 and 30.4, so you charge up in the night, and export what you can afford to let go out in the evening peak.
As soon as you have enough incoming pv in the spring you change over to this Intelligent OFlux, exporting at the higher rates as much of the day as you like or can manage. I guess you would have a case for a complaint if in the early spring they ran down your battery and left you having to import at peak rate, although it is a bit cheaper than peak rate import on Flux! I guess you could easily do an afternoon top-up, I see that the non-flux, non-peak rate is only a penny an hour more than my current tarrif anyway.
The other thing this has highlighted is the amazing differences in standing charges. I thought I knew that the old MANWEB area had the highest, but I didn't realise it was about 50% higher than some others...60p compared with 42! Why is it that Merseyside always gets the fuzzy end of the lollipop?
