[damo2929]

I am just moving house and need to install a charger.

I see there is a special deal for Octopus Energy customers for £199:

Ohme Home Charging Solutions

Welcome to the home of innovative smart charging for electric vehicles. Our solution helps you charge at the cheapest rate. Sounds good, right? Simple.

www.ohme-ev.com

I also need a new electricity supplier, but wonder if Octopus Energy is worth it for me? I only do 8 thousand miles per year and can do all my charging at night. I work from home, so need a tariff that is also reasonable in the day. In light of this, I am not sure if Octopus is the best option? My electricity currently costs about £115 per month with Bulb.

My other option is to go for the OLEV grant, as I did not have it at my previous house. But is it really worth it? Am I not better paying an electrician privately to install a 32amp commando socket and getting the Ohme Octopus deal for £199? Or maybe Octopus will work out expensive for me, with my limited mileage and working from home in the day?

yeah Octopus Agile has been fine since the meters was change in Aug. basically just keep the time of use out of 4pm to 7pm and you get a nice saving.
our bills dropped from £160 per months back to £85 due to the cheaper charging using the Ohme.

our Ohme is tethered using the gov grant.

 

[damo2929]

I've been asking for prices for work charge points but it's more expensive than the domestic ones. I think they just look at the grant and take that as an extra payment as the prices have at least doubles since I had mine installed 3.5 years ago.

I've ordered the 32amp Ohme and work will get a commando socket installed.

Overall octopus works out well especially if you get a few referrals.
Agile has been great, and I'm sure prices will come down again. It was great for high daytime user especially if you could limit your use during the peak hours.
At the moment Go is cheaper and 14p isn't a bad rate if you can get lots of the high usage, ie car charging, at 5p.
I see a lot too, over 15000kWh, but can keep the average unit cost below 9p on Go and less on Agile once the prices return to normal.

Agile prices are already dropping and now the cold spell is over and we got wind back they are falling nicely again. so will be back to <5p soon I think