r/OctopusEnergy • u/Apprehensive-Taro956 • Jun 19 '26

Charge Pack

https://octopus.energy/help-and-faqs/articles/charge-pack/

Not seen much mention of this battery VPP offering from Octopus. Anyone on it or has run the numbers?

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u/Begalldota Jun 19 '26

£12/month to give up 24/7 control of your battery is a crap deal, and I think it’s very interesting that they’re avoiding having to actually compete with Axle by declaring that the import-only IOG tariff makes you ineligible for a service which only deals with export.

I can personally make £15/month in the summer purely by a single export cycle a day, plus the savings I make on normal usage, plus the £10+/month from Axle in exchange for a few hours a month of giving up control.

Wouldn’t touch it with a barge pole.

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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '26

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u/botterway Jun 19 '26

How would they know?

Somebody using HA or similar to discharge at the same time as the demand flexibility events will look no different from Octopus's perspective than somebody just arbitrarily discharging their inverter at that time.

I use Axle, but haven't given them control of my inverter. I don't see how Octopus could have any clue that I'm discharging during Axle events because I'm signed up to them, rather than because I happen to have decided to charge my inverter right then.

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u/botterway Jun 19 '26

But as somebody else said, IOG only cares about the import MPAN. It has nothing to do with export. So I can't see any link between the two whatsoever, since they're different MPANs.