Switching electric/gas providers (see first post for links)

Signed up to the BWG 24 hour meter offer for electricity at 29.99 cent/kWh. Got an email today with my new account details. Was with BG and had a smart meter installed at start of the year but wasn't activated. Will I have to submit meter readings for flogas? After smart meter was installed BG were able to take actual reads for my bills. There's a video link in email from flogas as to how to submit readings. Is this only for households without smart meters?

Thanks

How long did it take you to receive you account number? applied last friday and didn't get anything apart from the initial generic email.

https://www.flogasfeelgoods.com/

check it out.

going by the comments on this thread people seem to have no patience these days, sign up for a deal and looking for instant confirmation and contracts by post - these things take time to process - the internet has killed off our patience lol

but they have the deal they just dont seem to trust the deal

My contract with energia is up this month, the best new deal I can find is flogas at 39.85 day rate / 19.31 night rate, which is a good bit more then I'm currently paying with energia ( .28 day and .13 night) . My rate with energia goes up on the 25th (.47 /.22) should I move to flogas now or waiting and hope there will be better deals in a few weeks / months. Tbh don't know how I'll survive next winter did not think my rates would be going up so much

Standing charge is €396.89 with flogas vs 269.40 new rate with energia. I think that would still make flogas cheaper for the year , but not sure how many units I use per year

you need to get your usage to make a proper price comparison in my opinion

What's confusing about it? The second sentence literally says it does not apply to fixed rates

If you switch providers with credit on your account you contact them after the final bill and they will post a cheque or send the credit to your registered bank account

EI run a tighter ship than some of the other providers it seems. They even provide for clawing back welcome credit if you leave within the 12 months while the likes of Airtricity will only bill you for the breakage fee usually €50. The likes of utilities have been holding onto things like over payments for years while rightly they should be refunded if requested be the customer. I'm not sure in your case promotional credit is something they are legally obliged to refund.

I checked and Electric ireland and flogas are the best currently for night meter plan ! Shame no one offering proper discounts or credits !

Do we expect price decreases going forward or rise ? If they will rise further may stick with flogas as its fixed

I hope they’re not pulling this one on people. I’ll give them a call myself and see what they say because I signed up to the 29.99 rate and have screenshots. Hated from the start the lack of confirmation of the rate after signing up. Did they flat out deny or what was their response?

They have sent me a gas bill - though I discovered on the phone to them that they hadn't added my IBAN details to my account, so it couldn't have been paid.

The bill was charged at the 9.04c BWG rate.

The bill came by post. I want only online billing. Apparently, that will happen when I can access the portal. This was supposed to happen within 10 days of registering.

I'm guessing they're overwhelmed with switchers. So, more patience needed.

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