Best Electricity Plan for new EV Owners

You'll need a day/night meter. Flogas will submit a request to esbn for your meter to be changed, they're one of the better companies and will actually do it for you.

I'm on an Energia 18c night rate 11pm-8am. We charge two EVS (night on, night off) during the night and it works out well.

So a full charge from 0-100% (which is never the case) would that be 50 kw ? I know it's a 50 KWH battery but was never sure how that broke down to an hours charging

Well it's not to do with how long you charge it's how much electricity you use. If it takes you 10 hrs to charge the 50kwh or it takes you 4 hours it's still the same amount of usage. So your figures are correct,you used 400kwh to charge the car.

It took about 2 days, yes I stopped before entering financial details.

Hello,

1. I have smart meter, solar panels and a zappi for the EV
2. I switched to Home Electric+ Night Boost EV plan (see image below)

Question: Does electric Ireland treat ALL appliances to be charged at 10.47c during that time or just the EV? The reason I ask is because my smart meter data as displayed on Electric Ireland's website doesn't show the EV.

Thanks,

K

You can get a standing charge of circa €100 less per annum, with Energia smart drive, and a much more flexible 4 hours (versus 2)per night rate of 7.54 inc vat, for more than 1000 kWh night boost units, in a bi monthly period, it increases slightly to 8.67 cent inc vat. Energia day rate is 33.86 inc vat, versus 36.15 with EI

in addition, Energia pay 24 cent for export, versus 21 with EI.

Factor all that in, and for most people with solar pv and ev, this will exceed, the €350 welcome credit from EI on this plan.

Hi there, trying to figure out what the best plan is for me using energy pal and as a not so tech savy person, is the below based on the half hourly file I uploaded and so telling me Bord Gais would seem to be cheapest based on my usage? Thanks in advance;

Yeah if you got that far then you shoudl be ok but as The Raisin said to get the most accurate estimation then you need a years worth of data. For me when I uploaded in actual fact it was the energia Smart plan was the cheapest but by only about €200 but I knew that I could without much effort shift all my EV usage into the 2- 5pm slot. Where as before I was starting to charge my EV at 11pm when the night rate came on. Have a look at some of the tabs the historical import analyis shows a nice heat graph of where your usage is at, you might have to do some more numbers yourself and take an educated guess as which would be the best for you.

Could you string them out for a few months? Not enter a new contract but continue with them?

That's the plan but lose the 15% discount 1 year offer after mid December unless I switch or enter a new 1 year contract with Energia. Not the end of the world, just means paying more for electricity at an already peak usage time of year. I might ring them and see if I do go for another 1 year contract acan I bring it with me to the new house

Just checking now with energypal.ie as I have a months data to see did I pick the right plan. Using my prvious 12months consumptions data it said that Energia would have been the cheapest but I know I could shift my load profile easily into the cheap 6.33cent Bord Gais rate and it would make them the cheapest anyway after a month it confirms that Bord Gais would be the best for me phew!! these number dont take in my FIT as BG do that every 6months!

Current prediction from Energypal using 1 months data…

Previous energypal.ie estimation using my previous 12 months data, showing energia the best.

Yeah I have a heat pump all electric house and those numbers you have shown there are very impressive…I do need a battery and thats the plan hopfully next year. Big outlay required even if I go down the DIY battery route, I would need a 30 kWh at least. I have the 16 kVA connection so that will help a lot in filling that thing 😎

To simplify it a bit for you Bord Gais EV tariff is very competitive. Pinergy and Energia also have competitive EV tariffs but their rates are higher out with the EV window.

https://www.bordgaisenergy.ie/home/our-plans/a0pSh0000009TkNIAU?gad_source=1&gclid=Cj0KCQiAlsy5BhDeARIsABRc6ZvO1wnbOhONDfD_e95Ph7AML5VW2wynK0Zo6w_RnbiZI1VCzOAasF8aArAiEALw_wcB&gclsrc=aw.ds

The BG tariff works out around 21 cents per kWh on average outside the EV rate. I have a similar tariff with Flogas minus the EV rate. I discount the peak rate as it has little effect on the calculation.

I too have solar (without battery). I sell all the excess to the grid and with the credit received offset power when the sun is not shining. Don't bother with a battery for now, it won't pay for itself with FIT rates the way they are.