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Cheapest time to run your appliances

When to run a washing machine, dishwasher or tumble dryer on Octopus Agile in North West England so it's done by when you need it – and exactly what to set on its timer.

Washing machine · cheapest start
00:05

Set it to finish in 9 hours

Tomorrow · done by 02:05 · about 26p – more than the 21p on a standard tariff · 37 g CO₂

Starting now would cost about 21p more.

Prices until Wed 07:00each bar half an hour

Running 00:05–02:05 · 32.9p/kWh on average

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Appliance
kWh

The energy label gives kWh per 100 cycles – divide by 100. Hotter washes use more.

Its timer
hours
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How this works

We cost each run on Octopus Agile in North West England as the appliance actually draws power. Prices are Octopus's where published, and our estimates otherwise – tomorrow's are published at about 4pm. We suggest only start times its timer can set. The energy per run changes the cost, not the best time.

Prices from the Octopus Energy API; carbon intensity from the Carbon Intensity API by NESO (CC BY 4.0); 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.