🍽️ Best Value Dishwash
20:55
ECO wins by 32p over DEFAULT, the next cheapest: it saves 3p of electricity, because it draws less power (4.11 kWh against 4.65), which outweighs its window costing a little more (34.3p a kWh against 31.0p), and 29p of water. Every setting at its own cheapest window, under the prices still to come:
The cheapest window for ECO starts Sun 21:30 and runs 21 half hours, as long as it ran when measured, where the Agile price, weighted by when it draws the power, averages 34.3p a kWh.
Half hour by half hour: Octopus's price, the power drawn in each five minutes of the logged run, and what each half hour costs:
| drawn | a kWh | costs | |
| 21:30 | 984 Wh | × 35.14p | 34.58p |
| 22:00 | 50 Wh | × 31.23p | 1.56p |
| 22:30 | 56 Wh | × 25.61p | 1.43p |
| 23:00 | 62 Wh | × 33.25p | 2.06p |
| 23:30 | 56 Wh | × 32.06p | 1.80p |
| 0:00 | 45 Wh | × 31.28p | 1.41p |
| 0:30 | 49 Wh | × 31.86p | 1.56p |
| 1:00 | 54 Wh | × 32.06p | 1.73p |
| 1:30 | 44 Wh | × 31.44p | 1.38p |
| 2:00 | 47 Wh | × 31.66p | 1.49p |
| 2:30 | 345 Wh | × 30.82p | 10.63p |
| 3:00 | 338 Wh | × 30.75p | 10.39p |
| 3:30 | 327 Wh | × 29.80p | 9.74p |
| 4:00 | 288 Wh | × 29.03p | 8.36p |
| 4:30 | 230 Wh | × 30.16p | 6.94p |
| 5:00 | 221 Wh | × 31.66p | 7.00p |
| 5:30 | 199 Wh | × 31.43p | 6.25p |
| 6:00 | 207 Wh | × 36.27p | 7.51p |
| 6:30 | 207 Wh | × 46.14p | 9.55p |
| 7:00 | 167 Wh | × 51.56p | 8.61p |
| 7:30 | 131 Wh | × 52.90p | 6.93p |
| electricity | 4107 Wh | 34.3p | 140.92p |
| electricity | 4.11 kWh × 34.3p a kWh | £1.41 |
|---|---|---|
| water | 60.5 litres × 0.42p a litre | 25p |
| powder | 100 ml, 83 g × £1.95 a kg | 16p |
| total | shown as £1.83 | £1.83 |
On Flexible Octopus, at 26.60p a kWh, the same wash costs £1.51, so on Agile it costs 32p more.
The kWh, and when in the run it draws them, are from one logged run on the plug, the litres from the water meter; water is £4.2067 a cubic metre with sewerage.
| wait | 0.5h | until the window opens |
|---|---|---|
| run | 8.5h | what the machine says this setting takes |
| set | 9.0h | on the machine's “finish in” timer |