Outgoing Octopus: export rates

Export: what Octopus pays you per kWh · Electricity

Outgoing Octopus is the export side of the meter — what you are paid for the electricity your panels or battery send back to the grid.

Three ways to be paid

Flat Outgoing Octopus pays one rate whenever you export. Agile Outgoing pays the half-hourly wholesale price, so it earns most in the evening peak and can pay almost nothing on a sunny afternoon when everyone else's panels are also exporting. The Smart Export Guarantee products are the regulated floor.

For solar with no battery, flat Outgoing usually wins: your generation peaks at midday, which is exactly when Agile Outgoing pays least. With a battery, Flux or Agile Outgoing normally beats it, because you can hold the energy until the evening.

Export and import are separate tariffs

You can be on one supplier's import tariff and pair it with a different export product, and the two are billed independently. Compare all the current export rates for your region on the export rates page.

Common questions

Other Octopus tariffs

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• Octopus Go
• Intelligent Octopus Go
• Cosy Octopus
• Octopus Flux
• Snug Octopus
• Flexible Octopus
• Octopus Fixed
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