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  • Email from Octopus saying the Intelligent rates are going up

    Posted by Martin Allport on April 21, 2026 at 8:07 am

    Email from Octopus saying the Intelligent rates are going up

    Did everyone just receive an email from Octopus saying the Intelligent rates are going up from May 1st?

    Standing charge up by 1.7p , unit day rate up by 2.5p per day, unit night rate up by 1.7p

    Terry Davies replied 2 days, 1 hour ago 15 Members · 14 Replies
  • 14 Replies
  • Matt Mason

    Member
    April 21, 2026 at 8:07 am

    Yes lots of people are very unhappy about this

  • Michael Davis

    Member
    April 21, 2026 at 8:08 am

    Yep, gas prices going up, so gas price is staying the same and electricity going up. Makes so much sense.

  • Neil Andrews

    Member
    April 21, 2026 at 8:08 am

    I jumped onto agile for a while. Hoping can get prices like new rate or better. I have solar and batteries which covers me its the car which I need a gd rate for

  • Nina Orpington

    Member
    April 21, 2026 at 8:09 am

    Doesn’t even offer IOG variable here..

    I just came out a fix on 18th April…

    My new fix…..

    Shocking

    11p per kwh, 1p per kwh night and 7p per day .. extra

  • Sam Odell

    Member
    April 21, 2026 at 8:10 am

    I can’t understand this. Basically the Government said we would all pay less but Octopus are saying we will all pay more?

    It’s actually a ridiculous price increase.

    • Paul Doyle

      Member
      April 21, 2026 at 8:11 am

      yes but no one anticipated that the tango man would pick a fight with Iran this substantially increasing the wholesale price.

    • Peter McMahon

      Member
      April 21, 2026 at 8:11 am

      tbh I’m thinking maybe it’s because we all fixed 12 or 18 or 24 months ago and prices keep going up …maybe only 2 or 3p each time but with us being fixed we miss the 2 or 3p rises which add up to say 15p then it drops 3p ..to some it still =s a 12p rise

  • Qamar Hussian

    Member
    April 21, 2026 at 8:12 am

    Would have thought there should be at least 30 days notice but I’ve not read the contract.

  • Rich Murray

    Member
    April 21, 2026 at 8:13 am

    I’ve not received anything,however I’m pretty sure when we got told Apr was cheaper it did say from May was dearer

  • Ron Glegg

    Member
    April 21, 2026 at 8:13 am

    Mine went down 4 weeks ago it’s now gone back up as per thread to roughly my original price madness lol

  • Sally Webster

    Member
    April 21, 2026 at 8:14 am

    Is anyone tempted to move off the variable and fix at 8p per KW?

  • Simon Fitton

    Member
    April 21, 2026 at 8:14 am

    I only got that option ..it was a fixed EV tariff of variable non ev tarrif

  • Steve Philips

    Member
    April 21, 2026 at 8:15 am

    Edf is really good. 6.9p 2300-0600 and 15p export

  • Terry Davies

    Member
    April 21, 2026 at 8:15 am

    Yup very annoyed.

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