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  • Octopus Energy finally announcing their drop in prices starting 1st April.

    Posted by Phillipa Holland on March 24, 2026 at 2:27 pm

    Octopus Energy finally announcing their drop in prices starting 1st April.

    Intelligent octopus Go overnight rate has dropped to 5.2p/kw

    If there was ever a time to look into battery storage it’s now!

    Wayne Harris replied 3 weeks, 1 day ago 13 Members · 14 Replies
  • 14 Replies
  • Phillipa Martin

    Member
    March 24, 2026 at 2:28 pm

    They started announcing them last week

    • Phillipa Holland

      Member
      March 24, 2026 at 2:29 pm

      yea, got my email and letter confirmation this morning so was happy to see it actually come into action

    • Phillipa Holland

      Member
      March 24, 2026 at 2:29 pm

      yes, fixed was last week and variable this week.

      Hopefully mine is on its way

  • Mia Baker

    Member
    March 24, 2026 at 2:30 pm

    Should have fixed it the other day as you could for 5.5p. It’s done up in price now.

  • Martin Shaw

    Member
    March 24, 2026 at 2:31 pm

    But have raised the standing charge

    They love to keep putting that up!

    • Mark Gager

      Member
      March 24, 2026 at 2:31 pm

      with most tariffs the high standing charges reduce the price per kWh.

      The best example of this is the £150 reduction they has reduced April pricing.

      If they had taken this off the standing charge everyone would have had their bill reduced by £150.

      But they have used the price per kWh to deliver the saving and because we import 8,438kWh per year our reduction works out at £286 on electricity and £58 on gas

  • Malc Nuneam

    Member
    March 24, 2026 at 2:32 pm

    Unless the night time rate vanishes, battery storage always saves you money for load shifting.

  • Louise Richards

    Member
    March 24, 2026 at 2:32 pm

    I’m not sure this rate change makes any difference at all regarding profiting from a battery when the daytime rate has fallen by an equivalent amount

  • Lisa Smith

    Member
    March 24, 2026 at 2:33 pm

    Dont look what will happen in september those. Unless you fixed those prices wont stay down long.

  • Zoey Hyde

    Member
    March 24, 2026 at 2:33 pm

    So many mixed messages here! This will not be across the board! There have been posts about increases rather than drops.

    Octopus Go will be going up.

  • Yolanda Conolly

    Member
    March 24, 2026 at 2:34 pm

    Not a reduction for new prospective quotes. Those have significantly increased yesterday. Same with EOn.

    And not sure how long Octopus will hold their existing variable rates for existing variable customers.

    The whole industry is changing day to day. And not in a good way.

  • Terry Wilson

    Member
    March 24, 2026 at 2:34 pm

    Only for those already in the fixed period. Renewing or new to the tariff its much more than that.

  • Will Cooke

    Member
    March 24, 2026 at 2:35 pm

    I keep seeing people saying 3.5p for overnight with go, but when I look online, I’m seeing 9.5p overnight.

    Can anyone advise why so different? (Our EV arrives in a few weeks so much keener to have 3.5p!h

  • Wayne Harris

    Member
    March 24, 2026 at 2:36 pm

    Mine looks like it’ll be going up to 8p or more in July.

    (I’m on a fix until end of June. I should have switched to the current fix last week when the 12M fix was only 5.59.

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