Cheapest electricity provider

Deepsouthwest

At the moment I'm with Bord Gais Energy paying a standing charge of 47.42cent/day and day rate units are costing 17.35cent/kWh and night rate costing 8.59cents/kWh.
Can this be improved on?
Also I've an outside yard, around 90 dry cows there, with two scrapers, a well and and a few lights that are rarely used bar one, and it's cost over €1500 to run it, this seems an awful lot to me.

orm0nd

Check Bonkers.ie.

whelan2

Deepsouthwest wrote: »

At the moment I'm with Bord Gais Energy paying a standing charge of 47.42cent/day and day rate units are costing 17.35cent/kWh and night rate costing 8.59cents/kWh.
Can this be improved on?
Also I've an outside yard, around 90 dry cows there, with two scrapers, a well and and a few lights that are rarely used bar one, and it's cost over €1500 to run it, this seems an awful lot to me.

I moved to airtricity 20% discount, agreed monthly payment was 375 /month level pay. They rang me yesterday after 4 months and said they are increasing it to 598/month from now. I lost the cool :cool: they were the ones who set the 375/ month figure when I joined up . Was with electric ireland before this

cerastes

Are CHP units used in farming?

oooge1

whelan2 wrote: »

I moved to airtricity 20% discount, agreed monthly payment was 375 /month level pay. They rang me yesterday after 4 months and said they are increasing it to 598/month from now. I lost the cool :cool: they were the ones who set the 375/ month figure when I joined up . Was with electric ireland before this

Same happened me , joined sse last January and mid year they rang to tell me they were increasing it from 279 monthly to 353/month , I barely reached the 279 in units used .. Going to change again now that contract is up , they show no loyalty neither will I ,

whelan2

oooge1 wrote: »

Same happened me , joined sse last January and mid year they rang to tell me they were increasing it from 279 monthly to 353/month , I barely reached the 279 in units used .. Going to change again now that contract is up , they show no loyalty neither will I ,

They really rang me at the wrong time yesterday:rolleyes: I was with them years ago and swore I'd never go back, but at the time 20% discount was better than anywhere else. Cant wait until August to move

st1979

Been said already check bonkers.ie
What may be cheaper for one might not be cheaper for another. like my pumphouse is cheaper with energia. and farm is cheaper with sse. Due to one having a night rate meter and the other not.

Bitten & Hisses

cerastes wrote: »

Are CHP units used in farming?

Mostly industrial use. You need a large thermal demand for it to be viable

Bitten & Hisses

whelan2 wrote: »

I moved to airtricity 20% discount, agreed monthly payment was 375 /month level pay. They rang me yesterday after 4 months and said they are increasing it to 598/month from now. I lost the cool :cool: they were the ones who set the 375/ month figure when I joined up . Was with electric ireland before this

I do an annual exercise on an Excel spreadsheet comparing the different providers. I haven't found a reason to justify leaving Electric Ireland yet. My policy is to run a mile from level pay

whelan2

Bitten & Hisses wrote: »

I do an annual exercise on an Excel spreadsheet comparing the different providers. I haven't found a reason to justify leaving Electric Ireland yet. My policy is to run a mile from level pay

electric ireland reduced their discount from 15 to 8% , no budging from the 8% either.

Cow Porter

go to bonkers.ie, have the amount of units you used in last 12 months etc.

cant exactly compare against unit prices as they all have different offers etc. switched from bord gais to energia in november, should save 1300 a year. 1 year contract then log into bonkers again!

st1979

Cow Porter wrote:

cant exactly compare against unit prices as they all have different offers etc. switched from bord gais to energia in november, should save 1300 a year. 1 year contract then log into bonkers again!

If you are able to save 1300 per year. Which I totally believe btw. Then even if you are in a contract that has not run out it pays to break the contract as it only cost you something like 50 or 100 euro. You can save 110 per month roughly. So in only a month you pay the break fee.

Bitten & Hisses

whelan2 wrote: »

electric ireland reduced their discount from 15 to 8% , no budging from the 8% either.

I hear you, but I calculated the total cost for the year on the spreadsheet and Electric Ireland made most sense for me. I wouldn't get hung up on the discount percentage alone, but as I said above, level pay is the devils invention

Brown Podzol

Anyone use brokers like these.

http://www.cutyourcosts.ie/broadband.html#

http://www.heg.ie/

st1979

I had a broker out. Told me about the great deal to be got from provider x. I showed him I would save more from provider y by looking on bonkers.ie the broker agreed with me and told me he didn't realise y had dropped their prices. So don't bother. They are no better or easier than doing it yourself. The broker requires the same info to estimate savings as bonkers.