OctoChargeCalc
During Covid-19 lockdown many people learnt a new skill. Played a musical instrument, knitting, drawing, the list was endless.
Personally, I learnt to code a website in Flask that interrogated my Influx database and I called this project OctoChargeCalc.
It looked a little something like this.
You told it how many kW you wanted to charge, what speed you could charge at and what capacity battery or device you had.
It then looked back over the past 7, 30, 60, 90 or even 365 days of the Agile tariff and told you how much that would have cost if you always chose the cheapest slots from each 24 hour period.
I was really proud of the utility. I still staggered to the day how I managed it.
But sadly I have had to retire the calculator for now.
The underlying database and utilities have moved on and I do not have the time right now to completely re-write it.
Maybe it will come back one day, who knows.
Referral information and free credit offer
If you find Energy Stats UK useful, there are a couple of easy ways to support the site and help cover hosting and server costs.
Thinking about switching energy suppliers?
Homeowners who join Octopus Energy using my referral link get £50 free credit after signing up. Business users get £100 free credit, and if you’re looking at solar or a heat pump, there’s also a £100 gift card through Octopus Tech.
Or, if you just want to say thanks, you can buy me a coffee.
You can also see more ways to support the site here via the likes of Plusnet broadband, Smarty Mobile, Havenwise remote heat pump control, Hetzner Cloud hosting and more.
Follow @energystatsuk on Twitter / X, Bluesky and Mastodon for daily tariff graphs and updates.
Note: The current and past performance of energy pricing is not necessarily a guide to the future.
