Avoiding fee to switch electricity meters?

Mousewar · 07-10-2014 12:00pm #1

Moved into a house five years ago with a night saver meter. Getting real sick of it and want to change to the normal 24h meter but looks like it's going to cost me approximately €200 to do the switch.
Two questions:

1 - Currently, I mange to do about 30% of my electricity usage during the nightsaver hours. That percentage will decrease quite a bit soon as my wife will be staying at home all day. Anyone know whether paying the €200 fee would be worth it and how long it would take to recoup the expense?

2 - Anyone manage to sweet talk any of the providers into forgoing the fee? I never chose to switch to the nightsaver meter in the first place (which was free apparently), it was just there when I moved in. I just spoke to Electric Ireland there and offered them my business in return for switching the meter for free but no dice...

Mrs OBumble · 07-10-2014 12:48pm

Can you explain why you want to come off the nightsaver rate - won't that make you electricity more expensive????

What exactly is there to be getting sick of? Sure there's a click twice day, but there's no difference for you any other way.

Mousewar · 07-10-2014 1:00pm

I want to come off it as currently I only use 30% of my electricity during the nightsaver hours and that is set to drop significantly in the near future. Therefore, it would be significantly cheaper for me to have a normal 24h rate.

Victor · 07-10-2014 5:17pm

How much electricity do you use per year?

What rates are you paying. What would the standard rate be? What are the standing charges?

ukoda · 07-10-2014 5:20pm

Mrs OBumble wrote: »

Can you explain why you want to come off the nightsaver rate - won't that make you electricity more expensive????

What exactly is there to be getting sick of? Sure there's a click twice day, but there's no difference for you any other way.

if you have a night saver meter your day unit rate is higher than the standard day rate on a 24 hour meter. if you don't use enough at night you'd be way better off on a 24 hour meter

ukoda · 07-10-2014 5:23pm

Victor wrote: »

How much electricity do you use per year?

that doesn't really matter, whats important is how much he uses every night, if its less than 30% he's better off on a normal 24 hour meter

OP - get you calculator out and work out how much you'd save switching to a 24 hour meter and weigh it up against the 200 euro

and to answer your 2nd question, no supplier will give you one for free - they all have to pay for an ESB Networks guy to go out, so they all pass the charge to the customer

Avoiding fee to switch electricity meters?

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