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Best time to export electricity in Southern England

What Octopus Agile Outgoing pays for exported electricity in Southern England. Tomorrow's is an estimate, from tomorrow's Agile prices, until Octopus publishes it at about 4pm.

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The pitch, inverter, your own export rate and battery are in Your home; a change in either shows in both. They don't change this view.

Best-paid hour ahead
17:00–18:00 tomorrow

31.6p/kWh (estimate) · now 23.3p · least 12:30–13:30 tomorrow, 16.0p (estimate)

Export prices

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p/kWh paid for export

Today · Tue 3 Nov
Tomorrow · Wed 4 NovEstimate

Who can have Agile Outgoing Octopus: homes on Octopus. It needs a smart meter that records export, and panels with an MCS-certified installation or a home battery.

The 4pm–7pm peak pays most, when panels make little – so it's for a home battery: keep enough for the house first (the evening's import costs more), and export what's left at the peak. Octopus Energy also pays for what a battery charged from the grid overnight. The battery's times →

Without a battery, panels export mostly around midday, when Agile Outgoing Octopus pays about 16.7p tomorrow – less than the peak, and less than a flat rate in summer, when midday is cheap. Your home works out which export tariff pays your panels most over a year.

Have solar panels? Add them in the line above, and the other views count the sun they'll make and what exporting it pays.

Use as a dashboard widget A full-screen view of the best-paid time to export, for a tablet on the wall, a smart home panel or a Home Assistant dashboard. It keeps itself up to date.
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How this works

Agile Outgoing pays a new price every half hour, set from the same wholesale market as Agile's import prices and published with them at about 4pm. Until then, tomorrow's is our estimate, marked as such – a guide, not the price you'll be paid.

Prices from Octopus Energy's public API; Agile prices from the Octopus Energy API; weather forecasts from the Met Office (© Crown copyright, CC BY-SA 4.0) and ECMWF (CC BY 4.0); market data from Bundesnetzagentur | SMARD.de via Energy-Charts (CC BY 4.0). Renewably isn't affiliated with any of them. More about the data.