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

Were you with EI and enticed into accessing your usage data through their app? If you did they changed the meter status to active (MCC12) it was a very sly move by them.

I triggered a switch from Energia to Electric Ireland and got a call from Engergia saying they'd give me a 31% discount, back dated to December plus €50 cashback. Day @ 28.81 incl Vat, Night @ 13.82 incl Vat.

Very happy with that!

Quick Question, If your in Credit with Electric Ireland because of the Credit from our Taxes, does it move if you switch to lets say flowgas ?

now that is good news

Ye, that's where it's important to take your actual/estimated usage into account, taking those electricity figures roughly, based on the €39 difference in standing charges and €0.04 difference in unit rates you'd have to use over 975 units before saving any money on Flo BWG rate. So what maybe a good option for high users is not so good for low users, as well as one being fixed rate and the other variable.

As to when any drops might come, how long is a piece of string. Personally I think the suppliers will now think they've done enough to keep the Gov off their backs for now so it might be a while before we see anything significant, hopefully I'm wrong though.

Sneaky bastards. Out of interest, if one could have any meter at this point, what would be the most popular option do you think ?

Surely in the case of Denis160 earlier, if simply utilizing the app triggers 'Smart' activation, and this was not what the customer wanted or indeed was prompted would be the case, they have serious grounds for recourse should they choose.

Ah didn't read your post properly you were out of contract since December I take it?

I am with EI & my contract is up with them, hence the move and yea what you say is possible, and if that’s what happened I wouldn’t have been aware of it activating anything. Anyway if reverting it 🤔?

Would be good to know if there was.

Checked, it’s showing MCC12

Yep was EI who switched me to mcc12. Was mcc01 my first year with energia

You get "asked" if you want to get interval data from them and get activated if you say yes. I'd seriously question if it meets the standard of informed consent

ESBN will provide that data to you without activation, I've two MCC01 smart meters and get the data

Feck it anyway, interesting that when I was in to EI they offered me a fixed 24hr rate and not the smart 3 different level rate, how can they do that & not other providers?

Yeah, how can fixed rate plan with "energy insights" equal a smart plan. I applied and got rejected as Electric Ireland changed my meter to MCC12 once I signed up to their plan over 2-3 years ago. Had I known at the time I would have never selected that plan! I put in a complaint as it must violate our consumer rights and access to the free market when we are now restricted to smart only plans, I wonder what the CRU ombudsman has to say on the matter.

Not expecting much though, guess I'm stuck on a "smart plan" going forward :-(