Did you get your electricity bill yet? Was there a hike in the bill?

glitterIsland · 26-01-2022 12:16pm #1

It was in the news for some weeks now about rising energy costs. I'm wondering has people here seen an increase to their electricity bills? The bill came for me but I am afraid to open it.

Geuze · 26-01-2022 12:24pm

Early 2021 I was paying 19.38 cent less 41% discount = 11.43 cent ex-VAT

The price has increased several times during 2021.

5th April = 21.18

8th July = 23.62

Oct = 28.11c, less 40% discount, = 16.87 cent ex-VAT.

The unit rate has increased by 47-48%.

boardlady · 26-01-2022 4:30pm

Mine was a whopper! I'm afraid to boil the kettle since .. absolutely scandalous

Dempo1 · 26-01-2022 4:34pm

I've a feature on Mt EI account, you can check average cost as the month progresses, pay if you want to or wait .

I'm an extremely low user, on a very old Tariff (nothing is cheaper), stayed clear of smart tariffs.

So average daily usage was €1.51 per day.

Since start of January (no additional usage) is now showing €1.64 per day .

fritzelly · 26-01-2022 4:34pm

Mine was the sameish but I was away for 2 weeks so...

At least there's the hundred euro to look forward to

TP_CM · 26-01-2022 4:35pm

€180 for a standard family home between November and December and a bit of Jan. No electric car and gas heating including hot water. Is that a lot?

is_that_so · 26-01-2022 4:38pm

About 13% up on previous bill for this period so not horrendous. Up about 10% on last year.

Dempo1 · 26-01-2022 4:46pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118536172#Comment_118536172

I'd say average 🤔 , mine around €95 , bi monthly, single household and don't use electricity for hot water or heating .

moceri · 26-01-2022 4:52pm

Up about 40% on previous year. I see profits are soaring for some of the electricity providers. Energia paid €30m dividend as profits soared during last financial year - Independent.ie

boardlady · 26-01-2022 5:01pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118536259#Comment_118536259

Yep. That was mine. 40% on the same period one year ago. 🤢

miamee · 26-01-2022 5:13pm

Ours was monstrous, just two of us in a 2 bed duplex. We were barely here for most of November but then from the last week of November were here all day every day thanks to both having Covid and then were on Christmas holidays. I work from home anyway. Bill was €286 😭, the biggest electricity bill I've ever had in my life. Really need to move providers, we are with Flogas who gave a good rate when we signed up for a year but out of contract now + price hikes = ouchy bill.

andala · 26-01-2022 8:57pm

A little over 500kW used, compared to over 700kW used in the same period last year and the bills come to the same 179e :( I'm used to the likes of 130-140e electricity bills bi-monthly, I think it's time I shopped around for a cheaper tariff or provider

26-01-2022 9:24pm

€231....... NEVER went over €200 before..........the young uns have all flown the coop.......only Mrs Mc Carthy & myself at home.

gifted · 26-01-2022 9:27pm

€297 ..that's the Xmas period......thieving bastards

buckwheat · 26-01-2022 9:32pm

€310 here. Bungalow with two adults and three kids. 1st time I've had a two monthly bill cross the 300. It was from mid Nov to mid Jan and we were at home a lot (omicron). Still though, €310 ffs

glitterIsland · 26-01-2022 9:42pm

The units of electricity used were approx 150 less than what was used in the same period last year from Nov 2020 to January 2021 but the pricing per units have gone up. The bill is more expensive this year. 260 euro for 2 people and we were being conservative with electricity. This is a truly a shocker.

Thelonious Monk · 26-01-2022 9:43pm

People should make an effort to use less electricity. I think no matter what the price or source of lecky is going forward we all need to use less, we can't just keep using more and more power, and the more cheap power available the more is used to do things - Jevon's Paradox explains this well.

My mam used to make a big deal about us turning off lights when we're not in rooms etc and it stuck with me.

mondeoman72 · 26-01-2022 9:50pm

It would be worth overpaying your esb so you are cushioned against any more hikes.

I did that when moving away from bord gas at normal rate and moving to energia. Lower the final read and pay the new affinity rate with new supplier a bit longer.

whisky_galore · 26-01-2022 9:57pm

Glad I'm not in a shared house where housemate regularly ran the dryer with a knickers and a pair of her tights rattling around inside it.

26-01-2022 10:01pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118537578#Comment_118537578

Trouble is that a lot of low-hanging fruit is gone. Lighting uses next to nothing now. Even TVs are super efficient now a 43 inch using 98W average is in the worst-performing category now. Laptops compared to desktops can be as little or less than 10% of 20/25 years ago. Even electronics use sweet FA.

Maybe there's marginal gains to be made in say, fridges, or maybe cookers can be made more airtight but heating food and water (and air in some cases) are the biggest users and physics is physics.

MAULBROOK · 26-01-2022 10:10pm

Yep the costs have gone up but thanks be to Jebus we installed Solar PV back in 2019. Ok not much production this time of the year but its better than a kick in the arise. The biggest kick is the PSO, TAXES and SERVICE CHARGES are unavoidable. From march till October we buy no power.

Last bill €112 by monthly (Oct to Dec). Two of us in the house.

deise toffee · 26-01-2022 10:10pm

I’m a dairy farmer.My Bill for the usual 50 day period rose from an average of €1000 to €2036 in December.

glitterIsland · 26-01-2022 10:13pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118537698#Comment_118537698

I'm so sorry to read about your bill. I hope you won't struggle with it.

glitterIsland · 26-01-2022 10:15pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118537693#Comment_118537693

The government could quit with that 100 euro free towards energy bills and knock off these extra charges even if it's just for the winter months. That would be more of a help. The vat on my bill this time last year was 30 euro. The vat on this year's bill is 35 euro. It's just so steep.

Buddy Bubs · 27-01-2022 12:36am

Is there any good deals out there to switch to?

27-01-2022 1:00am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118538332#Comment_118538332

Bonkers.ie

Jellybaby_1 · 27-01-2022 1:28am

We started using WeSwitchU in recent years and we're happy with the savings so far. They now charge a percentage of what you save but when we signed up with them they didn't charge us, they got commission from the suppliers, but the suppliers stopped that unfortunately. Anyway its been good for us so far. I haven't checked our bills over the last two months as yet.

MAULBROOK · 27-01-2022 6:18am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118537698#Comment_118537698

You really need to look at getting solar. Very good grants available for farmers. Gets some quotes and do your homework. No harm in looking

Realtai · 27-01-2022 8:03am

My last bill in January was very high.

Over 190 euros just for two people living in a 2 bedroom, ground floor duplex.

We have an air to water pump, which is supposed to be cheaper-yeah right!

Rip off Ireland is truly alive and kicking!!!!

zell12 · 27-01-2022 9:44am

My January bill was estimated, almost 500 units higher than what the meter says

lenan · 27-01-2022 9:52am

Over €400, usually 260 ish, family of 5 I. My OH blames me for the dryer I blame him for leaving the immersion on.

Sonics2k · 27-01-2022 9:52am

Nearly vomited when I got the bill. I'd just managed to get a handle on the bills in the household, I'm a single dad paying everything myself and saw the Electricity bill and was just blown away. Bill went from €140/150 to just under €300

SAMTALK · 27-01-2022 9:53am

Bill yesterday 530 euro . Same time last year 290 .

Time to move

Sonics2k · 27-01-2022 9:56am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118538882#Comment_118538882

Move to who though? They're all a damn rip off.

larchielads · 27-01-2022 10:02am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118536172#Comment_118536172

180!!??? I wish mine was 180. 300 bucks and theres 2 adults and a child

SAMTALK · 27-01-2022 10:16am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118538887#Comment_118538887

I suppose it's down to the least damage at this stage. This hike will drive a lot of families to the brink.

Between electricity, fuel and heating alone it,s gone crazy at the min

KilOit · 27-01-2022 12:44pm

€105 for 44 days

MAULBROOK · 27-01-2022 1:07pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118538882#Comment_118538882

Country or supplier.

SAMTALK · 27-01-2022 1:32pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118539920#Comment_118539920

If I was younger I would be gone

charlie14 · 27-01-2022 2:18pm

I was curious as to how we compare to the rest of Europe for electricity prices, and from Eurostat discovered we are the 4th. most expensive with Germany being the highest. With all the noise about gas prices being the driver I assumed Germany were using more gas to power their plants but on checking I found they use just 9.3% compared to our 52%. Compared Germany`s share of electricity from renewables and found that they were actually higher than Ireland, 46% compared to 42%. I asked if Germany`s use of gas was so much lower than Ireland`s, and their percentage of renewables was higher then how come theirs was more expensive. A poster who seemed to know what he was talking about from other posts on that thread told me that while renewables were less expensive than none renewables the price was determined by the most expensive component in the overall mix, regardless of the percentage used, i.e. all the supply is charged as if it was gas at present.

I thought that was crazy, but he informed me that is how it is set to allow electricity generating companies to pay for their investment in renewables and for future R&D. From reading a post here on Energia profits it does not look as if it is as crazy as I thought.

theteal · 27-01-2022 2:39pm

There's going to be a national emergency over here (UK) fairly shortly about all this. It's just another thing downplayed in all this Boris nonsense. There is a minimum price cap which is saving a lot of people but that's increasing by 50% in April. . . and rumour has it, another 20% in October. There will be elderly people freezing to death next winter if there's not some serious intervention.

Below is what we are paying (left) and a new deal offered back in December (right) - that deal looks really good now considering electric unit is over 30p

Brian Lighthouse · 27-01-2022 2:46pm

A smart meter makes a difference. Got ours two years ago and it's crazy how much of a difference.

For example. Logged in last week and spotted that it projected €188, then adjustments were made and it went down to 143, then spent the day washing drying ironing clothes and it's gone back up to 160-ish.

It's not at all accurate on the appliances/categories, but that is because I didn't fill in that part of it (I think that it's guessing on heating, lighting etc). However, The projected has been more or less on the ball over the last 4 bills - I've been looking more this year due to the news of rising electricity costs.

TP_CM · 27-01-2022 2:54pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118538906#Comment_118538906

Does that 300 quid include gas? I'm just talking about Electricity...

geotrig · 27-01-2022 3:05pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118540448#Comment_118540448

The problem I'm seeing is the unit rates on smart meter look terrible , my current contract 19.** /kwh variable* as I never see any offering set rates anymore

The smart meter plans that I'm seeing are set at std unit rate25/26 peak 30ish and night at 14/15ish give or take the peak and standard are off putting to say the least

B.A._Baracus · 27-01-2022 3:14pm

Mine was too. Highest bill yet. I thought I just went nuts over Christmas.

What's the deal with the whole getting money back from the January electricity bill the government was saying last month?

Brian Lighthouse · 27-01-2022 3:21pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118540630#Comment_118540630

This is plan here - not variable, same price 24hrs a day. It's with Electric Ireland.

Gregor Samsa · 27-01-2022 3:21pm

hmmm... Electricity bill on the 20th was €277.59 (Bord G, 4 bed semi-d, 5, 2 adults - both WFH full time, 3 children, gas heating, hot water and hob).

Same date last year was €230.43

So it's up, but not by as much as I expected. Usage must be down a bit.

Brian Lighthouse · 27-01-2022 3:45pm

I fogot to mention what I believe has been the shrewdest move in this household for reducing electricity costs. Thankfully there's a gas cooker here and I bought a whistling kettle and then

I took the electric Kettle and threw it in the well.

(I didn't throw it in the well but it rhymes and it's a tribute to the Violent Femmes whose Country Death Song just popped into my head, I presume as I was thinking of saving money - but not as drastically as the song's protagonist.)

I digress.

TL/DR

Dump the electric kettle.

27-01-2022 4:20pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118538874#Comment_118538874

I have to ask, how?

Standing charges are up a little bit but account for a decent portion of the bill. If your usage was the same then that would mean your unit rate has a good bit more than doubled which I haven't seen brought up anywhere yet.

27-01-2022 4:21pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118540899#Comment_118540899

Well yeah, obviously switching something from electricity to gas will mean you'll use less electricity. How much do you think you're saving? :D

boardlady · 27-01-2022 4:37pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118540899#Comment_118540899

Brian, I did the same years ago but then I noticed the rise in tanks of gas we were using! Honestly, I think you end up just offsetting with another expense. I do try not to boil the kettle until I absolutely need it and not leave myself endlessly re-boiling for a cup of tea I was not quite ready to make. We don't even have an emersion as the oil heats our water and I'm a freak who goes around turning out lights. I have a gas hob too so I just don't see where I can make savings!

Did you get your electricity bill yet? Was there a hike in the bill?

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