Smart Tariff Unit Rates

I can't seem to find Energia's EV plan with rural prices, I presume the SC would increase by 30%, which would make it pretty unviable. depressing situation really. I'm out of contract with Energia in Oct. so it'll be hilarious to hear what they offer to retain my account, 8c (speculative) CEG won't do it anyhow.

Pinergy announce price increase

29c night units. Shocking

Sit down first but you should have another look at that, the 29c is ex vat*, so almost 32c.

Almost 50% more than my current EI day rate, even after their recent increase. Then another €50+ a month for the 2 standing charges.

Mind blowing rates, you can understand a certain difference between suppliers, wholesale buying strength, forward buying etc, but that is either pure greed or incompetence if that it what they really need to sell at that price.

* an aside:

displaying prices to end users at ex. Vat is a bug bear of mine. Those above are residential rates, and we have to pay the vat, so should always be the inc. Vat cost.

Fair enough for business tarrif rates, or the likes of prices in say a hardware shop that has a lot of trade business

This is starting to look like trying to get health insurance. Deliberately confusing rates to baffle the customer.

Good deal bad deal who the fuxk has a clue.

so with Energia announcing their 0.1962 CEG rate, I halfheartedly started looking into smart rates again, and once again I'm flabbergasted & disgusted by their behaviour, and also how the 'regulation' is woefully inadequate or plain absent. is there any supplier not taking the piss re. smart rates?

I am currently getting a new electric connection to a house I am renovating.I have a EV so was interested in Bord Gais EV tariff with discount count it was coming in at 5.4 cent per unit for 3 hour window. I am also thinking of loading a powewall battery during same window to maximize the window when the guy from Bord Gais went to sign me up to the tariff he couldn't because he said the smart meter wouldn't have good enough data signal so I can't avail of any smart tariff is this the norm what is the point then of the smart meter. My phone can get decent signal and the house is only 3km from a big enough town.

Does the CFT value effect the ability to ready for FIT units?

Is there a monthly cap on how much you can use on your free day?

First Post! 👋

We have solar PV fitted back in June, only 3.5kWp due to space limitations but summer has provided us with a lot of free leccy and the turning off of the oil boiler since apart from maybe three times when guests were here.

We just changed our contract with Electric Ireland (we're stuck with them for 2 years from May 2022) to Free Weekender which does mean having to do all our major electrically powered jobs on a Saturday, but we decided it could work for us.

Its only 8am to 11pm, but I've set Eddi to heat the immersion all day while we do all the washing, ironing, tumble drying, bread-making, batch cooking for the following week and also heat the house in winter using electricity on Saturdays (I can even do a bit of playing with the central heating switch to circulate the immersion hot water around the radiators). They do say that if we use too much, they reserve the right to move us to another tariff, but there does not appear to be a set numbered limit. Last Saturday (our first on the new tariff) the load was 30 units, but we generated 21 however we weren't going mad. This will definitely be more useful in winter and when we get our act together a bit more.

It's not perfect, nothing is, but we've got to do what we think is right at the time don't we.

I'm dreading buying oil! My last purchase was at €250 for 500L, its now €5 away from €700.

Yes, I will only be heating electrically on my free Saturday. The rest of the time I guess Eddi will just supplement the hot water tank with any daytime excess. I am going to wire Eddie's second output to a 13 Amp socket so that I can plug in a convector heater placed in the lounge, any excess will then heat the lounge, but I'm not expecting much from that unless its a particularly sunny winter's day.

There's always something isn't there 😂

I've got someone supposedly coming to service mine for winter. I suppose its worth it. Last time he removed a family of mice from the back. Why should they get my heat for free! 🤣

The limit is 100kWh per billing cycle.

I'm new to this. Getting solar installed shortly. I have a smart meter. I am finding the complexity (and extra charges) with the smart tariffs perplexing. Also, I cannot simply use Bonkers.ie because it does not factor in FIT.

I realise that I can read the FIT places like here (https://www.purevolt.ie/domestic-solar/feed-in-tariffs.php) and then look up the smart tariffs that each company offers but this is not straight forward.

Hence, just wondering which smart tariff, have solar users here gone for? and why? I am a low electricity and gas user.

Thanks.