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

That's Yuno, Airtricty and electric Ireland who've cut prices around/since Christmas.

Hopefully Flo Gas, Bord Gais and Energia follow suit quickly now.

Its corporate chess. They are not obliged to reduce rates, but they likely will in their own time.

Yeah. What price war.

The problem is electric Ireland are an arm of the government.

What clown created all these middlemen electricity companies with call centres, advertising campaigns, corporate boxes in Croke park etc.

All any of them have achieved is an extra 5 or 10c on every unit of electricity.

I changed to Yuno on the 5th Jan. My smart meter was installed on the 14th Dec . I contacted Yuno this morning by chat as my usage was still not appearing on their app. Consequently I found as a result

Below are quotes from the chat

" it looks like you have a day/night smart meter, currently configured to work like a standard day/night meter. It's configured that way to keep you on standard day/night rates, but of course has the side effect of that daily usage data not being visible.

"because there's currently no "smart" day/night configuration available from the ESB. The only configurations that provide us with that data are day/night/peak and 24-hour setups."

"However, we expect a day/night smart configuration to launch at some point during this year."

I am a bit disappointed this was not fully explained to me at time of signing up. Basically app is no good to me. Im still within cooling off period. Yuno prices are still better than SSE & Electric Ireland including their price drops but it is fixed. Not sure what I will do?

We have no interconnector with that grid. We cannot buy electricity from that grid. We are decoupled from that grid. We are a small island off the coast of Europe. Generating electricity here is going to be more expensive.

~17% in 4 months is pretty massive whether you term it a price war or not.

have you a link to their day/night rate plan by any chance - no mention of it in their online price plan pages.

Why are EI deemed uncompetitive? From 1st Feb SSE is 29.61c (including 20% discount) per unit for electricity. EI's rate will be 30.83 (including 14% discount available to new and existing customers who renew their contract) from 1st March. Is that not competitive or am I missing something.

Awful customer service imo and very strict about charging the exit fee (most are). If they're cheapest, I'd go with them. I assume you're opting for the 20% deal as they can claw back the welcome credit if you break contract early. I've heard it happening to some but not others.

From February 1st SSE are cheaper.

I'm strongly considering that plan, I'm already on the BWG 24hr 30c rate I'm just uneasy about activating the smart meter, as everyone here knows once it's done it's done.. I think I'll brazen it out until April and see what's available then. Another contender are South east energy brokers, they're 20.04c plus vat on their 24hr plan with 237 standing charge, it's 60c per day plus Vat. They don't do smart plans, they're a similar outfit to waterpower.