Best Electricity Plan for new EV Owners

With energia and the contract will soon be up.

Best seems to be BG if I really use the ev slot and avoid the peak. Standing charge is high though. Not sure how much I use but I do 20,000km a year and nearly all of that is power from home.

Cheaper on bonkers than their own site for some reason

EV (2am - 5am)

6.237 centper kWh

Day

24.472 centper kWh

Night

18.455 centper kWh

Peak

34.127 centper kWh

Annual standing charge

€325.48

Ring them up and ask to put your wife's name on the account, then they can treat it as a new account and give the discount. This has worked for me in the past.

I just bought an EV and looking for the best electric rate. I have a smart meter but currently on a 24 hour tariff. I would think I am an average user of electricity for a family of four. (I dont know how to access the usage info?)

BG have a great 33% offer, the day rate is actually cheaper than what I am paying now, so its only more expensive on the peak two hour slot.

My fear is I will be moving to a smart meter tariff, which means in 12 months I'll be stuck looking only for smart meter rates which potentially could end up much more expensive. Are my fears a real thing or am I just getting worked up about this too much?

I've signed up to that plan and I'm getting 36% discount effectively giving me free driving, I've given more to the poor homeless chap down the town than the car has cost me in electricity. I was worried about next year but almost every provider is doing a 24hr plan for an activated smart meter now. It's very handy to see how much I've spent of electricity on a daily basis, compared to my last full bill with Flogas I'm going to be saving in excess of €100 every 2 months. My last bill with Flogas was €419 with BG no week has exceeded €36 making it cheaper.

I think a previous poster noticed something similar and found out that ESBN will fill in the gaps if the meter loses signal for a while

It could also be an issue that they registered the wrong meter to the MPRN, in which case you're getting a neighbours usage pattern

After more than 6 weeks? Ah here😏 I'm the only EV in the neighbourhood with the exception of a big Volvo tank yoke that's never driven or plugged in, it's a PHEV.

Sounds like another good reason to avoid a “smart” meter and stuck with my old day/night meter ?

BG showing the wrong data in a graph has happened to me a few times over the past year. It has always been corrected within a few days.

It certainly wouldn't be enough to put me off switching to a smart meter/smart meter rate though. Paying just €0.07c per kWh between 02:00 and 05:00 is a strong enough argument for me to think it is a good idea.

Can I ask how you did that, went to a smart day/night meter without going to a smart plan? I was quoted €300 to replace my smart meter with a day/night meter.

yep exactly what I thought. I have a smart meter but not on a smart plan, wanting to move to a non smart day/night plan. They want to charge €300 to remove the smart meter and replace it with a day/night. Snookered

I'm moving to Flogas from energia, Energia retention just rang and said they will give me a credit of min 170 on my last bill to stay and rates to stay are very similar to flogas, 50 exit fee.

They said they will credit the 170 euro on the 5th Sept.

I'm thinking of staying till I get the credit, then jump ship once I get the minimum 170 credit, I should still be up 120, how long before I can move to a different supplier then? I vaguely remember a boardsie being unable to move for a period of time in this type of scenario?

you can’t take the credit and then move. They’re obviously going to claw it back.

If they offered me 170 credit and the 37% new customer discount then energia would be about better for me to stay with than moving to flogas as flogas has a substantially higher standing charge. However if they only offered the 20% standard retention discount then flogas still is better value.

What did they offer you?

Also will energia offer the new customer discount if you switch account holders?

i don't have a smart meter

i've an oldschool one so best for me is Yuno

currently on EI and paying 0.33 ex vat per KW

Yuno is 0.22 ex vat for a year

so even charging my 60kwh Tesla Model Y it will cost €14.76 inc vat , so far better than the €60 a week i was using before in my ICE car