Filed under consumer-protection.

The Invisible Optimisation Tax

Dynamic electricity tariffs like Agile Octopus offer genuine grid benefits — and quietly reassign the utility's demand-response coordination work to the household, unpaid. Responding to half-hourly price signals requires daily monitoring, scheduling, and appliance management that the pricing brochure does not cost out. The attention this demands is not free; it is merely unpriced, and the resulting savings accrue unevenly across household types.