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

What is the FIT rate from energia these days?
All I see on their website is (from a "latest news" on May 2024):
"Energia is pleased to offer a rate of 24c per kWh to our residential customers".

Just wondering if that's still the rate.

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I went with this in the end. Its a variable plan for anyone interested (doesn't say that anywhere on Energia's website from what i could tell):

Energia Smart Data (30% discount). Rates: 26.33 / 14.10 / 27.60EAB: €1157.22

Energy Pal is saying SSE have a day/night plan with a 21.87 p/KwH. I can't see anything on their website. Closest Ex-Vat rate I can see is 24.05. Anyone else able to locate the rate as per energypal?

energypal isn't updated that regularly, there's a few plans there that aren't available anymore. I'd just use it as guide with bonkers & switcher.

where they all fall down is they're guiding you on past usage. if going to a smart plan, still need to work it out yourself as best you can

SSE's current day/night standard meter plan has a day rate of 24.05c, including VAT, and a night rate of 14.91c. Energy Pal has the correct figure for the night rate, so I'm guessing the incorrect day rate is a typo.

Note: EnergyPal is not always perfectly up to date, but I have found them to be responsive when I point out things that need to be changed/added, so if you see something like this that needs updating use the Contact form on the site to reach out. You'll be helping everyone who uses the site.

Also, you can add tariffs on the site yourself (that only you will see), so if there are tariffs that are out of date, wrong or missing use the Add Plan buttons to set tariff prices for yourself and see the results straight away.

This is late reply, but it might be useful to somebody.

BG has a higher rate at 9.27c / kWh, but a lower standing charge (€131.69 vs SSE's €152.31) and a €50 welcome bonus.

So which works out cheaper depends on your usage.

Taking the standing charges and welcome bonus into account, if you use 6,835 kWh over a year, at those rates both tariffs would work out the same. SSE is cheaper above that usage and BG is cheaper below that usage.

Every additional 1,000 kWh usage above 6,835 kWh makes the SSE tariff about €10 cheaper (for a year) than BG. For example using 8,835 kWh would make the SSE option about €20 cheaper. Similarly every 1,000 kWh below 6,835 kWh makes BG cheaper by about €10.

So BG is cheaper if you don't use a lot of gas.

On SSE's website for the fixed rate plan it states: "You've chosen to sign up for our fixed rate offer... You will be placed on a rate applicable to your meter type"

I have a smart meter with a standard plan at the moment. I assume if I sign up with SSE online they will move me to a smart plan or am I reading that incorrectly?

No they "shouldn't" as your meter status is showing as 24hr, I hate when they write stuff like that, probably best to contact them for confirmation. It should read as your meter status not meter type.

I initiated the switch on Tuesday and not a peep so far ..

Price changes in the short to mid-term (12 months) are already known by the industry, as most of their capacity is bought in advance. Overall, you can expect that your future average variable price for the next 12 month will be the same as the fixed price for 12 months you are being offered.

There will always be small differences, but no one can tell you which one will end up being slightly more interesting than the other. There is no need to take that aspect in consideration, unless you have a personal preference for one model over the other.

TLDR: it doesn't matter.

Anything to be concerned about agreeing to switch when reps call to your door?

Don't believe a word they say and confirm everything over the phone. Plenty of stories on this thread of people being told X only to be put on Y rates.

If you can't find it online/over the phone, then what they're offering you isn't available.

ring Energia a few days later (during cooling off period)

Triple check that switching at the door doesn't activate a smart meter (if that's not what you want). Once it's activated, it's activated. You can't undo that even in the cooling off period.

he’s probably telling lies and would likely hang uiu out to dry on a smart meter, the man at the door just wants his commission

Best thing I ever got was a ring doorbell, some of them won’t take no for an answer, eir phone watch caught herself off guard and the salesperson couldn’t understand why we didn’t want their set up even though it’s really cheap

My situation was exact same as yours, except my contract expired on Saturday. I accepted the new BG offer that day so I wouldnt be paying the standard rate.

Then on Sunday I signed up to the Energia offer. Basically my elec cost is going up by just under a tenner a month, which wont break the bank.