Simon Lane

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Pay what you think it’s worth, I’m going for a price of an out of date sausage roll but I’d want a discount…… #lcfc

@Everyth1ngElec Yeap done 3 trips France and Switzerland no problems at all.

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You can’t afford a coal mine. You can’t afford a gas turbine. You can’t afford an oil rig. Only fossil fuel states and billionaires can. But you can afford a solar power station on your roof. Now, ask yourself why you encounter so much anti-renewable energy propaganda.

@sarah_go_green @OctopusEnergy While Octopus go around fitting EV chargers maybe they should offer to fit timers on immersion heaters now off peak electricity is cheaper then gas. Maybe a new tariff Intelligent go with intelligent hot water. Just a thought. A basic timer is £10 by the way.

I am wondering whether @OctopusEnergy is the 8p per kWh night-time rate on Intelligent Octopus Go from the 1st April 2026 for all versions of the tariff? I am on a 12-month fixed of IOG (which now seems to be available again). Is the 5.5p going to be included in the 1st April rates for me too?

@sarah_go_green @OctopusEnergy Thanks, do you have to ring them up to switch to a fixed deal? I can’t see a way to do it in my app 🤷🏼‍♂️….it maybe me

@SL006 @OctopusEnergy I've just done another post which might be worth looking at. At least there are more options now.

@sarah_go_green @OctopusEnergy Thanks so much for that. I will see what email Octopus send me, I use 12,700 kWh of off peak and a 1,000 kWh of day rate power a year so makes a big difference. Once again thanks.

So you are on the variable 7p. Before Iran war i was on a fixed IOG which ended in October at 7p too. There's been both a fixed and variable version since around late last summer ish. When th war kicked off i jumped to a new version of the fixed iog which was 7.5p per kWh. Like all the fixes availability changes and prices change depending when you take them out. I jumped because the war worries me in terms of energy costs so i wanted the longest time with a good offpeak and i was happy to add 0.5p to my night rate and slightly more to my day. At the moment there's still a fixed available but now it's for 6 months. Now it looks like octopus are using the money the government is taking off energy bills to reduce the offpeak by around 3.5p per kWh and the rest off the day. They seem to be sending emails in batches to all the ones on fixed tariffs first and i'd guess all the variable next. Now with the variable i don't know what the prices are as they can change as they are variable. But id guess the 7p you are on is going down too but i don't know to what.

If the club are so skint (they are), why didn’t they sell the leisure/spa Seagrave complex and go back to Belvoir Drive? Who needs 2 training grounds anyway? #LCFC

@sarah_go_green @OctopusEnergy I’ve woke up a few times in the past few weeks to discover I didn’t have as much juice in my battery as I scheduled for. Haven’t had time to investigate the cause.

I'm going to do a test because something doesn't seem right with my IOG charging history. So Dennis is on 32a and i need 80% and am currently on 38% so ill easily be in my 6 hours BUT my schedule for the last weeks shows me taking hours to get quite a small charge and I know the schedule window i had wasn't out of the ordinary. I am going to check in the morning how many hours it said it took to deliver the 42% charge. Anyone else seen this or if you look at your charging history and see if the time it says it took doesn't match up with the schedule had? Mine stands out alot!

@sarah_go_green Totally agree with your thoughts. Adding complexity into the system which can unknowingly incur extra costs for customers is not a great move. A 6 hour limit button would be a good work around. This coming after the 3p a mile tax is not helping the transition.

What they could do is if you click the Sarah Says Stop at 6 hours button then the slider moves to the % you'll end up with. So you keep the slider that's there now and add the extra button. Then if it's clicked you know you won't get hit with leak charges and you'll see the % you'll get! @g__j I do think more people with toggle off mart charging otherwise just to be safe. I have to walk loads of people through IOG and its was a struggle a few years ago people just didn't want to come off Go because of the faff. This just doesn't help those people who want a very simple plug in and go approach.

Answer i've come up with is a Sarah Says Stop button for limiting your charge to 6 hours. 💁😂 Allows you keep intelligent if you have a battery of don't want any EV charging at peak rate without fiddling working out what percentage to set. I could still then set my battery to finish by 5.30am and allow smart charging whenever Octopus think it's greenest. I could do the same by checking % every time working it out but a button or slide is easier.

100,000 miles completed in EVs, it’s taken me just over 5 years, never ran out of charge, includes 3 trips across Europe. Currently checking out the French charging infrastructure near Reims in a Kia e Niro.

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Good news @OctopusEnergy have returned and sealed the offending meter outlet pipe. Thanks @g__j and team.

“Any person who disconnects a gas fitting shall, with the appropriate fitting, seal off every outlet of every pipe to which it was connected” @OctopusEnergy think that this situation complies with the Gas Safety Regulations after removing a gas meter. Have a word @g__j

@OctopusEnergy Maybe as you are an energy company you could build some battery storage near those troublesome wind turbines and soak up the cheap power and then pass it on to your customers when the network is not so constrained or the wind drops. Why leave it to someone else to fix?

There are 2,500+ turbines in the UK: they should be helping bring energy bills down. Instead, Brits have paid £1,000,000,000 this year switching turbines off while overpaying gas plants to switch on 👉 octo.ps/3KiVhcu

Meanwhile my Volvo diesel is 9 year old, 66,000 miles Running costs Tyres £815 Wipers £60 Brake Repairs £531 Other repairs £950 Service costs £1,781 Mot costs £372 Road tax £1,680 Fuel £15,015 Total £21,204 or 32.1p a mile

Leaf is 5y old, 62,000 miles Running cost Tyres £568 Wipers £30 Brake repairs £0 Other repairs £33 Service costs £699 MOT costs £165 Home charging £1,229 Public charging £1,578 Road Tax £0 Total £4,302 or 6.99p a mile SOH of 62kwh battery 90%

@sarah_go_green @ofgem Very tricky subject so let’s just look at grid costs. If no one had solar who pays, everyone? If everyone had solar who pays,again probably everyone as we still need a grid. Therefore I tend to look at grid costs and energy costs as 2 different subjects to try and help the debate

So @ofgem has put out a survey. It's asking for opinions on the future recovery of energy system costs. PLEASE LOOK and I'd love to hear your opinion. They want a broad response from a cross-section of people, but they don't make it easy! It is quite a hefty document that goes with it and the questions aren't very user-friendly if you don't have a background in the energy sector. “These new technologies can also potentially lead to circumstances where those that have them could avoid paying for some energy system costs, which would then need to be paid for by other consumers.” – Ofgem, Section 1.7 Have a look at my blog post about it. octopusreferral.link/my-thoughts-on…

Looks like Zonal pricing for electricity is not going to happen. It appears the government are quicker to put a lid on that than hydrogen for domestic heating. Shame.