Home Battery Savings in North Wales & Merseyside

On Octopus Go in North Wales & Merseyside, you pay 9.5p/kWh overnight and 37.4209p during the day. A 5 kWh battery charged at the cheap rate saves up to about £490 a year, best case.

TL;DR

Octopus Go in North Wales & Merseyside charges 9.5p/kWh overnight (00:30–05:30) and 37.4209p during the day. A 5 kWh Habo Energy EcoFlow STREAM battery charges overnight and powers your home during the day, avoiding the 37.4209p daytime rate. Best case, with one full cycle a day and an assumed 90% round-trip efficiency, that is up to about £490/year. Real savings will be lower. See how we worked it out.

Octopus Go rates in North Wales & Merseyside

North Wales & Merseyside: 37.4209p daytime / 9.5p overnight

On the current Octopus Go 12-month fixed tariff (GO-FIX-12M-26-09-29, region D, checked 10 October 2026), households in North Wales & Merseyside pay 37.4209p/kWh during the day and 9.5p/kWh overnight (00:30–05:30), with a standing charge of 66.74p/day. The off-peak rate is the same across all regions; the daytime rate varies.

This covers postcodes: CH, CW, L, LL, WA – including Liverpool, Chester, Wrexham, Bangor, Llandudno. Your distribution network operator is SP Energy Networks.

About North Wales & Merseyside

This region spans dense urban Merseyside to rural and coastal North Wales, with many off-gas-grid properties in rural areas having higher electricity dependence. North Wales has substantial onshore wind generation, while Merseyside’s urban homes benefit from tariff arbitrage on time-of-use pricing.

According to MCS data, at least 3,742 certified home battery installations have been completed in the North Wales & Merseyside region since September 2023 – part of a nationwide surge in domestic battery uptake.

Your savings with a 5 kWh battery

The battery charges overnight at 9.5p and powers your home during the day, avoiding the 37.4209p daytime rate. The saving is the difference between what the stored energy would have cost at the day rate and what it cost to charge overnight, allowing for charging losses.

9.5p
Octopus Go
overnight rate
37.4209p
Octopus Go
daytime rate (North Wales & Merseyside)
134.33p
Best-case saving
per day
£490
Best-case annual saving
(5 kWh battery)
The calculation (Octopus Go rates for North Wales & Merseyside, checked 10 October 2026)
To deliver 5 kWh at the day rate, buy 5 ÷ 0.9 = 5.5556 kWh at the night rate (assumed 90% round-trip efficiency)
5 kWh × 37.4209p − (5 ÷ 0.9) kWh × 9.5p = 187.1045p − 52.7778p = 134.3267p saved per day
134.3267p × 365 days = £490.29/year, best case
Best-case payback: £2,499 ÷ £490.29 = about 5.1 years

Rates from the Octopus Energy API (product GO-FIX-12M-26-09-29, Octopus Go 12M Fixed, region D, direct debit, checked 10 October 2026). The 90% round-trip efficiency is our assumption, because EcoFlow does not publish one for the STREAM. This is a best case: one full cycle every day, with all of it used at the day rate. Real savings will be lower. Best-case payback on £2,499 fully installed is about 5.1 years. See how we worked it out.

How North Wales & Merseyside compares

The Octopus Go off-peak rate (9.5p) is the same everywhere, but the daytime rate varies by region – so regions with higher daytime rates see bigger savings. Figures below are best-case yearly savings for a 5 kWh battery, worked out the same way for each region (GO-FIX-12M-26-09-29, checked 10 October 2026).

RegionGo daytime rateSpreadBest-case annual saving (5 kWh)
Yorkshire33.555p24.1p£420
West Midlands33.8931p24.4p£426
East Midlands34.1724p24.7p£431
Northern England34.2164p24.7p£432
London34.481p25.0p£437
Southern Scotland34.9661p25.5p£445
Southern England35.5099p26.0p£455
North West England35.5393p26.0p£456
South Wales35.657p26.2p£458
Eastern England36.0832p26.6p£466
South West England36.1715p26.7p£467
Northern Scotland36.245p26.7p£469
South East England36.2891p26.8p£470
North Wales & Merseyside37.4209p27.9p£490

What Habo Energy offers

One 5 kWh EcoFlow STREAM all-in-one box. Inverter in the unit. Electrician-wired to your consumer unit under G98 and BS 7671. From £2,499 fully installed at 0% VAT. This is not a plug-in battery. Plugging a battery into a UK socket and feeding the house is not legal.

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