Battery Optimisation Strategies
Proven approaches to maximise savings, self-sufficiency and export earnings.
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Octopus Agile in summer: why BatteryWiz banks the midday sun, not the morning sun
A real BatteryWiz solver run on an Octopus Agile summer day. On a half-hourly dynamic tariff the cheapest power is at lunchtime, not midnight - so the optimiser leaves the battery empty all morning, banks the cheap midday sun, and sells it into the 6pm price spike.
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Octopus Flux in summer: why BatteryWiz barely touches the cheap night rate
A real BatteryWiz solver run on an Octopus Flux summer day. See why the optimiser skips most of the cheap 2-5 am window, fills the battery from solar instead, and empties it into the grid at the 4-7 pm peak, slot by slot.
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Battery Arbitrage Strategy: Buy at Off-Peak, Sell at Peak
Battery arbitrage means charging when electricity is cheap, then using or exporting that energy when its value is higher.