Where Hungry Machines works best
Hungry Machines works with any home — but the savings are biggest when your electricity price changes through the day. On time-of-use, hourly, or wholesale rates, there's real money in shifting load to the cheap hours. We support10 of these variable-rate utilities and markets today, and we're adding more all the time.
Don't see yours below? Your rate may still work — these are just the ones we've tuned and verified. Tell us your utility and planand we'll add it.
Coverage is the same whichever way you connect — theSmart Satellitetalks to the optimizer on its own and works anywhere your rate is covered.
United States
- Read the rate guidePG&ENorthern California
E-TOU-C, E-TOU-D, E-ELEC, EV2-A, EV-B, and tiered E-1.
Time-of-useLive - Read the rate guideSDG&ESan Diego, California
TOU-DR1/DR2, TOU-ELEC, EV-TOU-5, DR-SES, and the full plan lineup.
Time-of-useLive - Read the rate guideSCESouthern California
TOU-D-4-9PM, TOU-D-5-8PM, and TOU-D-PRIME.
Time-of-useLive - Read the rate guideComEdNorthern Illinois
Hourly Pricing — the real-time wholesale rate, refreshed every day.
HourlyLive - Read the rate guideComEdNorthern Illinois
Time-of-Day Pricing — four fixed daily periods (morning, mid-day peak, evening, overnight), with separate summer and winter rates.
Time-of-DayLive - Read the rate guideComEdNorthern Illinois
Hourly Pricing paired with Delivery Time-of-Day, so the distribution charge varies by period on top of the hourly wholesale price.
Hourly + Time-of-Day deliveryLive - Read the rate guideAmeren IllinoisCentral & Southern Illinois
Power Smart Pricing — hourly real-time pricing, day-ahead published.
HourlyLive - Read the rate guideConEdNew York City
Residential time-of-use with the summer super-peak.
Time-of-useLive
United Kingdom
- Read the rate guideOctopus EnergyAll GB regions
Octopus Agile — a new price every 30 minutes, every Grid Supply Point region.
Half-hourlyLive
Australia
- Read the rate guideNational Electricity MarketNSW, QLD, SA, TAS, VIC
Wholesale-linked plans that follow the AEMO spot price for your region.
Wholesale spotLive
Europe
- Read the rate guideDay-ahead dynamic tariffsNetherlands, Germany, Luxembourg, Denmark, Norway, Sweden
Hourly day-ahead pricing across 13 ENTSO-E bidding zones — including all five Norwegian and four Swedish zones.
Day-aheadLive
Spain
- Read the rate guidePVPCMainland Spain
The regulated hourly PVPC tariff — a new price every hour, published a day ahead.
Regulated hourlyLive
Don't see your rate?
We add new utilities, retailers, and markets regularly. Tell us your utility and rate plan and we'll work on supporting it — most just need us to source the pricing data. Reach out and we'll add it.
On a supported rate? See how Hungry Machines turns it into savings — automatically, every night.