Best Electricity Plan for new EV Owners

i see what you mean,

i understood from a friend who also got that free EV charger offer, you can pick any of the Energia smart tarriffs, so just check the most suitable for your own specific time usage requirements.

Same originally opted out. Took me about 12 months after my initial enquiry. I kinda lost track then had to remind them a few times in that 12 months.

Note after you get it installed there's a 30 day testing communication period by ESB during which I was refused switching by another supplier. Took them 2 months for ESB confirm it tested ok. I had to renew my contract before that unfortunately.

This was my experience. Probably quicker for others.

Probably depends if they are working your area. Said they were swamped.

To anyone who has signed up to the Flogas BWG smart plans, do you have a way of tracking your usage via the website? I know Energia have a nice app and BG who I'm with for another 6 days have everything on their website, it does make it easier especially when asking others to pay towards the bill.

I have that already setup and it's fine for what it does but the providers usage will be matched exactly to my plan and show money spent etc which is really what I'm looking for.

Just bought 1st EV and installing home charger. I'm on 24 hour with Electric Ireland. Pre EV it looks like I use 400kWh every 2 months, sometimes going to 500 in December etc. Any advice welcome. Thank you

Thanks for that. I am on a smart meter this past year though I haven't implemented it as such. I will check my bill and see what I'm paying per kWh.

1/4 or 1/5 would be quite a difference!

hi folks - anyone else with energia? i got my bill yesterday and it looks like they only paid for Mays solar export to grid even though bill states period is may/june

cheers,

mick

i am with Energia, the dates of the bill, including the export period is listed in the top right hand corner, looks like this:

We are now a two EV house and I've a 10kw solar battery to top up. The EV rate with Energia beats everything else hands down. I'll be changing over in August.

Pinergy rate is actually lower at only 5.45 c inc vat, export is also 25% higher,@ 25 cent but i needed the 4 hour Energia window with 3 EV’s, heat pump + a 15kw battery to charge every night. It is manageable in the 4 hour window, but we have lowish annual EV mileage, and thankfully, no electric showers

Make sure to have a look at the free Saturday or Sunday plan with Electric Ireland. I find it great ... do all my charging on Saturdays. Your standard rate for the other 6 days will be slightly higher but is also offset by everything you do on Saturday (or Sunday) being at zero rate.

All depends on your own situation - driving profile (Kms per week - will one charge cover you), car needs on your free day etc. Don't rule it out anyway, it's hard to beat a zero rate for the car which is likely to your biggest user.

Re: "Free" Saturday or Sunday…the very days you want to be able to use your car for pleasure purposes.

Nope I'm going to tie it up charging as I watch my washing machine go round and round 😐️

Electric Ireland free days are 0800-2300.

I just pulled by latest HDF file from ESB there now and have 4 months of data after installing a smart meter. Previously was on a 24hr plan with Energia. We have an EV and this is the estimated annual cost according to Energypal.

Energia Smart Data 33% - €1831.62

Energia Standard 24hr 33% - €2477.41

Annual saving: €645.79

Note that besides charging the EV at night rate, we also use our dishwasher and washing machine usage after 11pm. But the EV is the single biggest factor in reducing our annual cost. Apart from these 3 items, our electricity consumption patterns have not changed. Takes very little effort for roughly 26% reduction in our electricity costs.

I too was unsure of whether we could achieve significant savings.

The smart meter needs a month of data before you can switch to a smart plan. So as soon as my smart meter was installed, we started shifting our usage as I described above so the data would match time of use rates.

Then after 1 month we had enough data to put into Energypal to have a reasonable estimation of what savings could be achieved. The answer was very clear - The results after 4 months are very similar to what our 1 months estimate was.

I initiated the switch the next day.

If you still unsure, do what we did and shift your EV charging until after 11pm and have it finish by 8am the next day for a month. Then plug your data file into Energypal.

Importantly, only select the data that falls into the date range that matches when you started shifting your time of use in order to compare results (i.e. Smart vs 24 Hr tariff). You can always come back to this thread if unsure how to do this.

It costs you nothing but time and a little change in behavior in order to make an informed decision. Even if it costs you €50 to switch, you will probably save that in less than a month.

The numbers don't lie.

https://energypal.ie/