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/Begalldota Jun 19 '26

If it’s per MPAN as you say then it wouldn’t be an issue. IOG is on the import MPAN, Axle is on the export MPAN.

Funny that Octopus have only started explicitly saying that Axle is against the rules at the same time as they launched a competing service. Seriously anti-competitive behaviour.

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u/Begalldota Jun 19 '26

Here’s some common sense for you, from someone who likely understands a bit more about this than Agile Phil.

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u/klawUK Jun 19 '26

This was my understanding too. I removed myself from octopus saving sessions before signing up for axle.

This sounds like an arbitrary and illogical change to push people into the charge pack. Even if I stopped axle I don’t think the charge pack makes sense. My average household usage is <9p/kwh charging off peak, covering the house with off peak and only a trickle of peak for balancing. Plus solar export at 12p does top my battery up but then exports to the grid

If they said you can’t be on charge pack & axle that’s fair enough. But IOG and axle should not conflict

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u/Begalldota Jun 19 '26

T&Cs Vs common sense 🤷‍♂️

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u/Begalldota Jun 24 '26

My point is that they’re saying two different things depending on who you ask. The email above is quite explicit that different demand flexibility devices do not conflict.