I’m a Tibber Pulse customer in Germany. Without Pulse, I would be billed according to the dynamized Standard Load Profile (SLP) H0 published by Standardlastprofile Strom – Grundlagen & Anwendung | BDEW.
Saving money by shifting usage of white goods into cheap hours:
Starting the dishwasher tomorrow(+) at 13:01 will save 0.22 cents (compared to highest price) - for details see Optimizing energy costs (washing machines, tumblers, dishwashers, ...).
A difficult question to answer is whether it makes sense to use the Pulse when there are no electric vehicles and/or photovoltaic systems involved.
I use KNIME Analytics Platform to compare the cost based on the SLP to the actual cost based on consumption measured (and billed) by my Pulse. Example for May 2023:
SLP calculated (one bar corresponds to one hour):
Consumption (arbitrary units):
Comparison billed vs. billed without Pulse:
If there is any interest in such “what if” analyses, I could write a tutorial on how to integrate the KNIME output into openHAB.
BTW, here are my final results for April 2023:
So the preliminary answer for May 2023 and the definite answer for April 2023 is: yes, using Pulse makes sense and did save 4,01 EUR (compared to SLP) in April 2023 …