Best Electricity Plan for new EV Owners

Hi

I am with Energia on their Smart Drive plan and am out of contract on the 5th of October.

Unit rates are 0.3386 6 a.m. to 2 a.m.and 0.0754 from 2-6 a.m.

Rang them today to see what they could do if I stayed with them and I was told that they wont do anything on the pricing as it is a unique plan.

Anyone here have the same experience and if so did you manage to get any reduction on the unit prices even on the day rate?

I really dont want to change supplier in order to get a discount with them but if I have to then I will.

Cheers

I tried to negotiate on this Energia plan but failed ! It has 4 hours at a very low rate of 7.64 inc vat, which is unique, and as export is 24 cent, when i factor everything in, it offers the most flexibility. Standing charge is good @ €236.62 inc vat. Pinergy was close at 5.45 cent, and slightly better export of 25 cent.

The day rate is irrelevant to me as i don’t use hardly any day rates.

Energia are overdue a price reduction, so maybe one is coming, as from what i can see they are the only ones not to have a price reduction in more than 6 months

That's not too bad. Have you tried energypal? I'm on the BG EV plan it might be worth looking at if you can fit everything into the smaller window (2-5).

2 hrs ev window isn't great 14.5kWh into your car. Check what rate your inverter will charge your battery. Mine is 3.5kW so takes about 1hr 20 to go from 10% to 100%

Thanks for the reply.

I do a lot in the 4 hour window that is available at the cheaper rate, charge a hybrid car, fill a 5kw solar battery, run the immersion, dishwasher and washing machine. Dont think I could do all of that in the 3 hour window as the car alone has a 12kw battery and I can only get about 3kw an hour into that.

There is a monthly allowance after which the price increases it isn't a huge jump but just double check your usage to see if you'll come close to exceeding it. The day rate was just too high for me to consider it as I'm only using about 20-30kw per week in the car.

"electric car to be charged every week or so"

This plan has to be worth a look for you:

Home Electric+ Weekender

As you're getting one day free (Sat or Sun) you can discount 1/7 off that rate to give an effective frate of about 30c. That's before you do all your car charging on Sat (or Sunday) for free.

Your solar during the week will further reduce the impact of the 30 c rate.

Have a look anyway. Works great for us (Energypal confirmed).

So they all contribute to the negative bill, thus making it even more negative. Sure why wouldn't they?

I got the Kia deal with Energia. Rates below, plus i got a free Zappi charger (well i pay €300, but get that back through the grant).

I thought it was a good deal at the time, but reading above, I am not so sure!

I have a 77KwH car, and it takes me most of the 11pm - 8 am night rate slot to charge from 10% to 80%. Does that sound very slow?

Smart Time of Use Tariff:

Day rate running from 8am-5pm and 7pm-11pm, with a rate of 0.3010.

Peak rate running from 5pm-7pm, with a rate of 0.3154.

Night rate running from 11pm-8am, with a rate of 0.1611.

The Standing Charge will remain the same at €300.91 for the year.

Edit: above rates include VAT.

I've an 80kWh battery, but that is overkill, I have just a standard 12kVA MIC, so max I can draw is 15kW. So I basically buy 3 hours of that every single day, so 45kWh. I would love to go 16kVA, but the ESB want over 2 grand for that, and that is without any work on my side. I want to replace my gas boiler with a heat pump in due course

And yes I have a lot of solar PV too!

LOL yeah I am just using the words the Minister used to describe the conditions under which you get the €400 per person exemption. It specifically states contributing to the bill 😁

so you quite literally run the gas off the electricity to quote a father ted line 😂

It would make for great YT content if only someone would volunteer to host it 😉

The consumer unit fuse is 63A. Times 240V will give you 15kW

The actual ESB fuse in your meter cabinet is 80A