Best Electricity Plan for new EV Owners

Absolutely, a big battery EV can take 10+ hrs to replenish if close to empty.

https://www.boards.ie/profile/908361/Nigzcurran

You might do better on this one for Electricity only, i don’t know of anything cheaper on a 24 hour Electricity tariff.

https://www.energia.ie/exclusive-axa-promotion-offer

24 hour Electricity (standard plan)only is 22.47 inc vat, and standing charge of €236.62 annually inc vat.

For gas,

depends on your usage, but Flogas have 8.54 cent per unit inc vat, with a €50 credit, standing charge of €151.19 inc vat.

https://www.flogas.ie/price-plans/residential/

Its usually limited by the charger. Most home chargers are 7kW. Divide the usable size of your battery by 7kW in this case to give you the number of hours it would roughly take to go from zero to 100%.

Yes it was the home battery I was asking about, I think you missed a bit in your reply but I get it. It's similar to charging a car battery, don't exceed a certain percentage of the capacity for the initial charge and taper off after that.

Thanks for that, I've seen 12kW on my connection so I should be safe enough (if I ever get a battery 😆)

Brilliant, thanks for that great explanation. 15kw is a good sized battery it would cover that morning breakfast usage very easily until the sun came up and started helping things along.

There's also the charging losses to take into account - as I recall on a home charger it's up to 20%

We went from Energia Smart Data to BG ev plan, with the addition of a new EV last week. Our FIT rate is less but should make up for it on the 6cent window.

I plan to shift all of the EV, hot water and a good bit of heat to the underfloor from the heat pump, dishwasher and laundry on the 6 cent rate. Have 16 kVa import so hoping to save a bit more, even though Energia smart data was a great plan.

BG EV plan

34c peak

24.8c day

18.5c night

6.3c 2-5 night

Energypal is a huge help for people who use it!

A reduction was not unexpected, but that is a significant drop, almost 17% reduction, from 24 to 20 cent, so one would expect downward movement on the Energia tarriffs.

Energia still remains as the 2nd highest microgen rate, with the worst being Yuno, only 15.89 cent.

Pinergy now the front runner, still paying 25cent, allthough reductions are likely coming soon.

Bit like EV toll rates I think FIT payments will be wound down over time and eliminated unless you're producing quantities that would genuinely assist the grid.

If FIT goes, it will push Return of Investment back so far as to make me think that solar in Ireland is a bad investment.

Theres a lot of people exporting, albeit most are probably small exporters, combined together though, this does has a significant impact, i exported just over 5,000 from Feb to end of October, next year, i’l do 7,000 minimum for the full year, as we only got the battery installed mid year, and had a few teething issues, and had an unavoidable export pause for a period. These are very sizeable numbers, and many have way higher export volumes than this. There are a few on here with larger systems, and i’d guess some exceed 10,000 units in export annually.

It would be very interesting to see some data on the national FIT picture.

What i fail to understand is i see all these new homes being built, and they are only getting a “token” number of panels, to get to an A or B rating, and to tick those green credential boxes, and for feelgood marketing purposes, rather than longer term practicalities. Even the bigger new homes, appear to be drastically under specced for PV panels, and they all have heatpumps.

It's flowgas that offered me that, think i'm paying them .27 at the moment. I might ask him about that bwg rate, what is it?