Smart customers pay less

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Here’s some other ways our customers have saved, and even earned cash from their smart meter over the years:

• Agile Octopus gives customers different prices every half hour of the day, based on the market price of energy. When energy’s really cheap on the market (often when a high % of it is green) customers’ prices plunge. Sometimes they even go negative – that’s right, some smart meter customers get paid to use power.

• Meter you competition: When smart meter customers could win a year's free energy - around £1,971 - every month. Check out our winners reactions!

• Power Hour: completely free energy for an hour every month – generally the hour when the UK’s energy mix is ‘greenest’. (The deal was so good it went viral on Hot UK Deals and filled up in minutes).

• The Big Dirty Turn Down, when 250,000 customers got paid to cut their energy use at certain times to avoid the need to turn on a fossil fuel generator.

• The Windy Day Fund, when customers in areas of Scotland with plenty of wind turbines were paid to use more power when the turbines were spinning fast

• Our Earth Hour challenge, when we gave any customer who cut their energy by half during Earth Hour a £5 donation to the World Wildlife Fund.

• Four hours of free energy on Christmas Day, two years in a row.

So, how can a smart meter help you save energy?

Recognise your energy usage patterns

Open your app or online account and hit ‘Explore my energy use’. In a couple of clicks, you can learn so much about what you’re using and what it costs. Monitor what you've used daily, weekly, monthly or yearly to help work out what your different energy spikes or trends are, based on the time of day. You can then use that information to change habits and even identify inefficient appliances that might need repairing or replacing.

Here’s how our customer Simon used his:

And we're building even better technology so that in the future, tracking your spending will be a breeze.

Smart meters unlock brand new ways to earn money

Our whole energy system is getting smarter as we adjust for a world full of electric cars, heat pumps, smart homes, and power from the wind and sun. Being more flexible with how – and critically, when – we use energy won’t just be greener, it’ll be loads cheaper too.

The BBC shared that cool challenges that’ll give households the chance to save more than £100 per year on their bills are on the way – rewarding customers with cheaper power or energy credit for shifting energy use to make the most of renewables and avoid fossil fuels.

This isn’t some distant future. Our customers get to do this kind of thing right now – but it’s only possible with a smart meter. They're the critical key that lets you get involved in all the cutting edge ways to save money that come along with a green electric world.

Still not convinced? Discover more about what smart meters are and how easy it is to get one installed at home to start saving money today. Or, read first hand smart meter experiences of why Octopus Energy customers love their smart meters.