Neil Fellows
Established Member
Careful, someone might tell you off for posting that!Obligatory referral link for to get your free £50 share.octopus.energy/harsh-light-34![]()

Careful, someone might tell you off for posting that!Obligatory referral link for to get your free £50 share.octopus.energy/harsh-light-34![]()
Very naughty!Careful, someone might tell you off for posting that!![]()
That's nowt - surely Ofgem are on for £2.5million in referral credit after sending all the AVRO customers across...Very naughty!
Ha! It was just the electrickery meter. Despite having a dirty great gas terminal about five miles away in Bacton, there's no gas in this little hamletDid you get both meters swapped out
I don't leave my IHD plugged in as it uses to much power?.
Yeah - Microsoft PowerBI Desktop (a free utility) is my personal favourite. We use it at work (in it's paid for online service capacity). Just pull in your data and graph away, and it connects straight to the Octopus API using the JSON connector. In the absence of a working IHD (issues connecting to the Gas smart meter seems to knobble my IHD) this certainly fills the gap to a certain extent,There are some fantastic utilities available to analyse your Octopus data if you are interested.
Update #5
Latest update - and a bit of an oddity.
Well, some months after having my smart meter installed I realised something odd was happening in the billing department.
I'd had one online bill, which took me from signing up with Octopus, through to when the smart meter was installed. Lovely
The Octopus app was dutifully reporting usage and showing consumption profiles etc. I was having direct debits taken exactly as expected and I had a bit of a credit balance from a couple of referrals. Lovely. (and thanks to the referrerees).
The weird thing was, that credit balance just kept growing. I'd had no bills posted to my online account since that first one in October 2021.
I queried this with Octopus and (eventually, certainly after longer than their anticipated 2 days), got a message back to say oopsie, we hadn't actually linked your meter to the billing service.
I now have an up to date set of bills, a reduced credit balance and a slightly more comfortable feeling. Fortunately the big bill wasn't too ginormous and my current budget still stands. Phew.
The moral seems to be: check the actual bills are being generated and finds being taken from your Octopus balance.
All now (I hope) sorted.
If anyone is interested, here's an up to date Octopus referral link:
share.octopus.energy/umber-fly-66
Switch using that and we both get fifty quid.
Unless your tariff comes to an end. My octopus Go just ended so it was either move to the variable standard one which will increase over time or fix another 12 months on a high price octopus Go. I chose to fix for 12 months to benefit on the cheaper overnight rate and try to schedule dishwasher etc overnight instead of the day.I don't think Octopus recommends switching they say stay on current tariff as it comes under the CAP rate.
Nobody has ever used my referral link
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