Dynamic ESS Octopus UK vs schedule charging

Q&A and troubleshooting DESS
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Hi Folks,

I’m curious if anyone has any DESS data on their system with Octopus energy UK.

At the moment I have cheaper overnight power (mainly advertised for EVs).
And the relatively standard export tariff of 15p.

I buy at 8.5p at night. And technically can sell at 15p during the day.
And just vary schedule charging based on time of the year.

I love the idea of having a really smart DESS setup with the more flexible tarrifs that use variable pricing etc, but worried/struggling to see myself beating the current setup.

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Sounds great.

I am currently on Octopus Agile and about to move from a deemed export to Octopus fixed export at 15p a unit.

Do you use the built in DESS link to your octopus account to retrieve your prices for export and import?

I have found that if i set a manual export price it fails to load the agile price data. I haven’t quite made the switch on the export side so curious if DESS retrieves both import and export tariff rates.