Best Electricity Plan for new EV Owners

Don't over think it, there's nothing in it.

However, if important to you, Energia's system for reminding and entering manual meter readings is better, and the website is more easily navigated.

The Flogas urban & rural standing charges make no sense to me.

You should have gotten an email with a link to renew

If you're on gmail it might have ended up in the Promotions folder instead of Inbox

Unfortunately I can't send you my link as it's personalised, you'd be signing me up to the BWG deal

I didn't get any link sent via email, checked other folders etc

If you want the one line answer, sign up to the Energia AXA deal (there's a link back a page or two) and you're probably going to be fine

If you'd like a slightly longer answer, create an account with ESB Networks and download your smart meter data as a HDF file. Then upload to Energy Pal and see what it recommends

Make sure to select Day/Night plans since EP only shows smart plans by default

If you already have the EV then you can set the date range to whenever you started charging it. It's a very rough estimate but it should give you an idea

If you don't have the EV yet there's a few ways to estimate your usage, all of which are highly inaccurate 😁

First you can take your annual mileage and multiply by 0.2 to get your annual EV consumption. That's based on 200Wh/km which is pretty bad for a lot of EVs but is a useful ceiling of consumption

So say you drive 30,000km per year that'll give an extra 6,000kWh usage. Multiply that by your night rate and that's the added cost

If you want EnergyPal to factor in the EV usage then you need to work out what to add to each 30 minute interval for charging

This formula should do it:

(EV usage kWh/365 days) / 7kW = nightly charging time in hours

Plugging in the 6000kWh above gives 2.35 hours of charging per night

Taking that, open up the usage editor and add 3.5kWh for each 30 minute interval from 2am until you hit the required hours. Scale the last 30 minutes to the decimal

So we'd add the following

2.00-2.30 +3.5kWh

2.30-3.00 +3.5kWh

3.00-3.30 +3.5kWh

3.30-4.00 +3.5kWh

4.00-4.30 +1.23kWh (3.5kWh * 0.35)

If I haven't lost you yet then that should make EP recommend a bunch of EV plans 😁

Why 2am? Because that's when all the cheapest EV rates kick in

I'm pretty sure only Energia do that trick

anyone know the rate per kWh for micro gen on that AXA offer? I’ve searched high and low on their plans and it’s not displayed.

For folks moving to Energia and needing to decrease their level pay, you'll need to wait until the first bill is issued before you can do so

I was on to customer service and they tried manually generating a bill with meter readings, but it wasn't working for some reason

The agent said she'd try again in a few days and call back next week. They seem pretty good there to be fair

For some context, Energia calculated my level pay at €315 and I worked it out to €80 per month based on my usage for the past year

I had to tell their stupid calculator I live alone on a building site and it dropped to €185, still too high

i was on a gas bill - level pay plan a few years ago with Brod Gais, i was constantly in credit, and asked for a reduction twice, they refused, when i passed €500 in credit, and it was early summertime, so it would have been 7 to 800 in credit by Autumn, i asked one final time to reduce, they again refused and i left them the same day, and took the refund.

It might be handy for some users for budgeting cashflow, but i would never go near them.

Just jumped from EI (Flat rate .26c) to Energia AXA offer.

Looking forward to some cheap night rate charging.

Thanks folks for all the good advice.

all ok, got it sorted

I presume these are excluding vat

Do you have a smart meter? If so then don't bother

If not, you can submit a reading once a month and they'll generate a bill from it. I found it handy for tracking usage since it's difficult to estimate from the 2 month bills sometimes

Not the actual rates though. You would be better off quoting the VAT inclusive figures which push this plan up a bit.

Also @Stallingrad why did you choose the 34% discount over the AXA 41% discount?

Yep, that's the non smart digital meter, it does the old 24-hour or Day/Night plans

Your meter code is probably MCC02 if you're on a day/night plan

In terms of meter readings, it's always sending in updated ones to your supplier and avoid the estimated readings. I think ESB guarantees 4 readings per year