When Are Agile Rates Available?
I often find myself looking out for tomorrow's Agile rates late in the afternoon. How bad are the evening peak rates? Will there be any juicy periods of plunge pricing? When should plan to do my laundry? Octopus indicates on their website that rates are available between 16:00 and 20:00, depending on when the next day's wholesale rates are available.
They add that this is usually closer to 4pm, which is also what I've observed. AgileBuddy has been automatically gathering the latest agile rates for a few weeks now, so I've spent some time analysing the data to see when rates are typically available. Octopus is correct that rates are usually available closer to 4pm, often even before 4pm. As a result of these findings I have adjusted AgileBuddy's rate fetcher to start looking for rates a bit earlier (from 15:45) to make sure the rates are shown as soon as they are available.
I've prepared a chart of when rates have been available recently:
I've added this graph to the agile statistics page, where you can find some interesting statistics and averages for the Agile tariff. Over time a better picture should emerge of when rates are usually available.
