Best Electricity Plan for new EV Owners

Are you going for the Flogas 26/12 offer?

When is your contract finished? If it's within 8 weeks you can get the new deal.

Worst case, you may have to pay the €50 break fee to switch. May well be worth it if you use a lot of night rate electricity.

Had my old d/n meter changed yesterday for the RM108. Took about an hour to do with electricity off for about 20 minutes. The technician said he was installing 7 a day on average so there seems to be a big push on at the moment.

Am I right I’m thinking it takes 30 days from the install date for the reading to start showing on the ESBN website (testing the signal strength) ?

Had my D/N changed in January and didn't even realise. It was only when I went to submit a reading I saw it. They said they would organise a day to do it but obviously just came and did it when we were at work. Out of contract so shopped around, staying on D/N and moving to Electric Ireland. I was with Energia and it has gone to 40c day and 20c night with no discount. Electric Ireland is 29c day and 14c night after 24% discount. Smart metre window of 3 or 4 hours is still too tight with a heatpump going as well as car charging so sticking with D/N.

That clarifies the question of whether we can get a new D/N contract on an RM108 after our current D/N expires

Flogas offer. gas, electricity, dual fuel

BWG Fixed Rate Affinity

https://www.flogas.ie/price-plans/bwg-affinity-rate-res-offer/?availability=renewal_customers

Go for the Flogas 24hr plan 23.44c 257 standing charge that plan you're looking at is very expensive sure the 24hr rate is only slightly higher than the cheapest rate on that plan.

It's just above you the Flogas bwg plan, don't ring, sign up online, before you ask, no you don't have to be a bwg employee. Don't ring them do it online.

You can't sign up for the electricity one online. You need to ring up.

Ok thanks, when I looked at a link posted here before it didn't have a "renew" button, but the last link does.

If I start going through that link it has a checkbox to "confirm your address hasn't changed, ring us if it hasn't", how do we get by this? Do we just checkbox yes? We are actually currently with bord gais, so potentially it is ok to check it and maybe it will even save us the break fee.

We are Rural though so the standing charge is €313

We don't have the EV that long (2 weeks today) so not sure yet, but at guess maybe it will be 20% of the bill (possibly more in the summer as we can stop using the dryer as much). Im only in work 1 week every 4, and while the current allowances at work covers the return trip, I can see that changing as demand increases.

I'm on the Community Offer 30.6 and 13.5 Day/Night, wonder if I could sign up on the link for the BWG retention.- In contract till August, did they email BWG customers directly with the retention offer ? Just wondering if I can expect the same for the Community Offer..Great information posted here the past few days, thanks to all contributors.

BWG Fixed Rate Affinity Electricity Offer

Night Saver Meter CURRENT Day Unit Rate (Fixed)

Cent per kWh

25.48

Night Unit Rate (Fixed)

Cent per kWh

12.35

Standing Charge (Fixed)

Annual

€331.33

PSO Levy (Variable)

Annual

€0

EAB (Variable)

Estimated Annual Bill

€1,212.40

That would be how I'd do it too, top up to 80 during that window whenever I needed it. I just used the example of charging 0 to 100 in one go for clarity.

I only have the EV 2 weeks and I'm still on a legacy 24hr tarrif. I'm waiting till the end of the month to see if there are any further discounts.