Best Electricity Plan for new EV Owners

Actually 25.89c/12.41c so the earlier poster P K was closer.

That's a D/N plan- Threshold is for overall amount of units then a slight price increase but doesn't affect me personally.

It's working for me on the phone, I think you're mistaken with the 350, the 350 is towards the installation of a charge point it isn't actual credit. You need your seai letter of offer for the CP grant to get the 350, anyway I think it's a crap plan, 2 hours is useless. I'm a small mileage driver and even at that it takes a bit of planning using the BG 3 hour window.

same here, I wonder are we in store for better than 25c/12c

Even if it stayed the same id be v happy. I see Energia are doing this rate also on the d/n meter so worse case scenario we could switch if Flogas are not competitive . For me - I much rather the d/n meter and the ability to charge cars, battery, run washing machine, dishwasher and emersion over the night over 9hrs rather than these 3 or 4 hour windows.

Standard issue, I never renewed when the contract was ending to see what they were offering. They never contacted me when I left which was unusual, every other provider always made an attempt to get me to stay. The Energia smart plan for a standard smart meter is almost exactly those rates with the added bonus of the cheaper standing charge.

We have been on board gais EV rate for the last 11 months or so, they rang up there basically offering the same deal again.

Looked up energypal.ie with our HDF file filtered to the last 11 months (when we got the EV) and to my surprise we are better off not going for an EV rate. Energia data plan is cheaper for us than our current plant by €200+ a year. The energia plan is cheaper in general

4c cheaper on day rate - 40% of our usage

13c cheaper on peak - 10%

7c cheaper on night - 14%

6.5c more expensive on the EV rate (no EV rate, just the night rate) - 36%

So even do the EV hours is a good chunk of our usage, the cheaper rates in general more than makes up for it.

It's funny it's kind of will be disappointing in some ways to move away from the 7c EV rate because the direct comparison of how much the EV costs to run versus our ice car goes up! But I'll take that bragging rights hit for an overall cheaper price.

Will be interesting that next year's HDF file will be harder to compare as we'll have no incentive to try out the dryer on at 2am etc

It isn't their day night plan it's their standard smart plan.

Nightsaver which is D/N 3000 day/2000 night per billing period.(The first paragraph - disregard the rest.)

anyone faced this issue before with EI. my contract is until aug on standard plan. im getting an ev this month. so if I want to switch to their SST smart plan they wouldn't let me. they can only offer their costliest night boost plan but not the cheapest to their existing customer?

They have a 2 hour window for the ev rate, will that be enough for you? I switched to BG and they gave 50 credit which will nullify the charge to break contract from Electric Ireland.

thanks im on standard 23 cents 24hr plan. its good enough but not worth it night charging ev. im have 6months remaining on contract.

It only goes up by a few cents for the units above the threshold.

Hi all, does anyone know when I can switch provider without incurring a penalty charge. My Bord Gáis deal runs out in March and it looks like energia is the best one for me from energy pal. I don’t think I can specify a future date when I want to switch.

It’s odd seeing as the energia plan doesn’t seem to have an EV part but I guess overall it works out cheaper, the energia plan is Smart Data & 33% Discount and the night rate is 13.49 cents.