Switching electric/gas providers (see first post for links)

As far as I can remember (when the plan details were still immediately visible at that link) there was no welcome credit incentive to sign up. It was all about the preferential and (supposedly) fixed rate. Although, we all now know it wasn't, in fact, "fixed" at all.

Just tried to input my email address (the one I already used to sign up for gas with them via this plan, twice) there to see for myself and it said that the "email domains do not match", so I'm unable to access the plan information.

Has anyone been able to access it? Or do you now presumably need an actual BWG email address to do so?

The answer to your query is sign up the day after the contract expires. So sign up on Wednesday.

Pinergy is an odd company to go with. I'd be avoiding them

@bren2001, do you have solar PV/Battery? Curious about the comment re pinenergy? They have 6c 3 hour overnight rate and 25c feed in tariff currently. If you have solar pv and batteries they are a great option if you know how to optimize it. In winter I run my house on circa e1 a day from grid, 6c * 17kwh charged to batteries in 3 hours. Excess solar will be exported at 25c. In summer you can build up a lot of credit too. Its defo not for non pv/battery users as their standard rate is very high but the key to it is minimal draw from the grid outside of the cheap 3 hour 6c window. I do have 18kwh battery storage though so can cover pretty much any days requirements bar when the house load exceeds the inverters capacity at 5.5kwh. Their 1st couple of bills make no sense (will charge ya e300 but then once they have a few mths data a large credit hits up and it normalizes then, you have to keep e200 credit minimum on account and they have no problem paying excess credit back to your bank account. Its a niche offering that solar PV owners ideally with batteries can make the most savings on.

Looks like one of the Flogas offerings (Fixed Electricity [24.09c inc VAT] or Single Electricity 30% Discount [27.75c inc VAT] + €150 credit) will suit me best.

Just out of curiosity, what are people actually being offered from their Retention Team to stay with Energia?

I had a look through their Renew My Contract portal on my account and all that was offered was a paltry 25% off, for 31.99c (inc VAT) - which is a bad joke considering I'm currently getting a 41% discount from them. Even more so, when you factor in the 12% price increase in October.

So that risible offer for the next 12 months, would effectively be a whopping 42% price increase from last year's signup rate. Give over!

Their new customer offering isn't much better tbh (29% discount @ 30.28c) but at least that's almost, somewhere near market competitive.

Is that really the best they've got?

Just to be clear, the risible offer you referred to for existing customers is only 5% more than the 'near market competitive' offer for new customers. Also, base electricity prices have been rising recently so it's not fair to compare current plan pricing with that from last year.

No, i don't. I overlooked the solar comment tbh.

You seem to know a helluva a lot more about that setup than I do so I'll stay quiet.

Some solid advice there!

Will switch to Flogas tomorrow.

I have to move to FloGas tomorrow. Did you do the changeover online via the FloGas website?

Did you get an improved offer from Energia since?

Has anyone else got one?

Well said on the percentage being quoted by various posters it means nothing without a unit rate and its been said previously throughout the thread

.226 seems like a good rate I assume thats Ex. VAT

I just switched to FloGas. See rates below. My Energia dual fuel contract expired yesterday, and I haven't received an offer from them. Also, I'm getting an 8kW solar PV system installed next week (without a battery). I used Kilowatt.ie and EnergyPal to find the best deal. Let's see what the new bills will be like.

Am currently on 1 year fixed with EI. Unit rate is 0.2075 ex vat. Currently on MCC01 meter and can download data from esb networks but haven't been on a smart plan. Can anyone tell me if getting a day night meter is an option. Girlfriend has just bought an EV

so you are thinking of paying more to stay on a standard plan ? Smart plans are not as bad as they were at the start and if it was me I would change to save money