Octopus Go Intelligent new 6 hours charging limit

[EVsince2016]

I just received an email stating Octopus Go Intelligent will now be limited to 6 hours a day at cheap rates

"
Thanks for choosing Intelligent Octopus Go to power your home and charge your car.

Since we launched Octopus Go over 7 years ago, we’ve invested millions in unlocking the power of smart electricity, and passing on savings to customers like you who are literally driving the clean energy transition forward.

Intelligent Octopus Go has always offered super-cheap power for your whole home every night and smart charging to let you charge cleaner for less.

To keep our off-peak rates as low as possible, by the end of January we will be updating Intelligent Octopus Go to automatically apply the 6 hour limit for super-cheap smart-charging.

Around 80% of Intelligent Octopus Go charging sessions are already using less than the 6 hours mentioned in our terms – which is good, because scheduling more inevitably drives up the cost as we're charging when wholesale costs and grid stress are higher.


The fundamental benefits of Intelligent Octopus Go remain the same:

• Intelligent Octopus Go customers will continue to receive 6 hours of off-peak electricity for your whole home between 11:30pm and 5:30am. Guaranteed, reliable, schedule-friendly off-peak savings.
• Plus up to 6 hours of super-cheap smart charging every 24 hours – these may be during your home’s off-peak hours (11:30pm - 05:30am), outside those times, or a mix of both.
• Whenever the 6 hours smart charging is scheduled outside your off-peak window, the electricity for your whole home will also be at the discounted rates.
• If we need to schedule more than 6 hours to reach your target charge, only the first 6 hours of charging will be at the discounted rate – extra half-hours will be charged at your Bump rate (even if they’re scheduled during the off-peak window).

Plugging in your vehicle daily (when possible) makes Intelligent Octopus Go cheaper and reduces the amount of smart-charging hours you need overnight.

Tens of thousands of Intelligent Octopus Go customers are already plugging in daily. But all Intelligent Octopus Go customers benefit from more cars being available to the grid more of the time – so if you can, please do.

If you want to read more about this change head over to our blog.

Thanks again for trusting us to power your wheels – and for helping to harness the power of abundant clean energy to lower bills and create a fairer energy system.

Love and power,

Pete Miller
Co-founder & Head of Customer Experience"

 

[EVsince2016]

My problem with this, is not the 6 hours of time limit but how it works with solar.

Currently when charging on solar, Octopus often choose to allocate charging slots when I'm on solar.

The indication is that if I charge on solar all day, I will no longer get the cheap rate at night on Go.

Any idea?

 

[raynard]

My problem with this, is not the 6 hours of time limit but how it works with solar.

Currently when charging on solar, Octopus often choose to allocate charging slots when I'm on solar.

The indication is that if I charge on solar all day, I will no longer get the cheap rate at night on Go.

Any idea?

Why aren't you exporting your solar ? Then charging in the six hour period

 

[EVsince2016]

I'm on deemed 50% export but use nearly all of it, so profit

 

[JohnV6]

Pause the charging to suit you export, or plug in late pm. I do this as Octopus give me 15p to export so I'm better off selling it.