[dharma1]

Yeah I have a bit. I'm on their Agile energy with half hour pricing intervals (this is what the smart meter standards give).

It's really cool. Sometimes the price goes below zero - "plunge pricing" - if there is too much production and too little use. They give you the pricing info for today and tomorrow ahead of time, not sure how they predict future pricing - probably based on weather forecasts, since they only use solar and wind?

I have WiFi smart sockets on things like electric heaters to turn them on when electricity price is below my threshold level. It's a nice feeling being paid for using electricity. If you have an electric car you could also programmatically only charge it when electricity price is below a certain level. Octopus also have an EV leasing company, thinking of selling my current car and leasing one from them after covid19 is gone to a degree that I still need a car again.

Here are their dev docs:

https://developer.octopus.energy/docs/api/

They even have an open graphQL API and a storybook - how many utility companies you know who do this? Looks like Octopus hired the right people!

https://api.octopus.energy/v1/graphql/

https://octopus.energy/static/common/storybook/account-manag...