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

FYI for existing customers of EI, if you are out of one year contract you can get 150 euro credit to renew. I didn't see this on their website. I saw they have 28% off for contract renewals and called but I was told it won't apply to night saver rates but rep offered 150 euro credit for renewal instead. :)

Rates are same, they have 28% discount rates but it doesn't apply to night boost package I am on. My electricity usage is low with heat pump running at night and ev rates anyway so I am happy with the credit.

Got my first flogas affinity bill after being with yuno. 75 euro for the month. It will be winter i will see the big differnce with the heatpump. We only do cooking between 5-7 and try to do washing and dishwasher on night rate which we never done before but we may aswell try make use of smart meter now that its activated.

Have SSE Airtricity always had a €100 early contract exit fee, per fuel? Thought they were capped at €50.

Is there an equivalent of energypal for dual fuel?

Thanks.

(Edited for a typo)

Thanks for coming back Bren2001. Thought I may have missed an easier option!

if you've an activated smart meter upload your HDF to energypal.

If you have an unactivated smart meter, on bonkers you select standard tariff, not smart. It will give you the best tariff.

You can download your data from the ESB site but you've to request it donut won't be helpful this year. In a year's time it would be useful to determine if you should switch TK s smart tariff.

For now, select standard tariff on bonkers.

I’m not sure how relevant it is for us but the predictions are U.K. fuel prices to rise 10% towards this winter season after a rise in wholesale pricing

Anyone any idea how long a smart meter takes to "activate" post fitting?

Was told 30 days that's past spoke to chap on the esb helpline he then said 40 days, tbh I don't think he had much of a clue nice guy n all that.

Seems strange to me, what triggers the activation?

Surely there must be some form of signal/ pairing ?

Anyone any clue ? Tks

I'd like to know this too. Recently switched to a smart meter.

Yes he seemed embarrassed when he mentioned 2G technology.

Just seems weird that it takes so long to acquire a signal.

I live in an urban area so we will wait and see.

Tks for the reply.

2G is ideal for that sort of stuff, the amount of data being transmitted is tiny.

The SSE 10% price cut didn't seem to happen today after all. "Electricity and gas - Fixed rate" still showing the same 25.10 day / 15.58 night rates as weeks before (VAT incl).

Was waiting for the 1st of July to move over to SSE, but based on this nothing happened for D/N meter users. (yet?)

Update: WebChat confirmed that the price cuts did happen, but the fixed rate offer remained unchanged. So I went with FloGas BWG as it's somewhat better than SSE for my needs.

just seen in one of the papers your man from bonkers expecting the others to drop soon after SSE today but also mentioning the pso coming back & vat increasing to normal.

if the last two happen bills will be up a bit anyway whatever about unit prices