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

On Energia, up for renewal. Night rate is 75% as we have 2 EVs. Miro Gen export is 2,500 units. Problem is most deals with suppliers offering a cheap night rate won't pay for micro gen, which is €450 credit at present.

No, but there's not a lot of good things said round these parts about them! Have a look a few pages back in this thread...

36c that's mad Ted 😲. Just sign up online to the Flogas fixed 24hr smart plan, 22.5c per unit. Why would you sign up to a smart plan if you don't need it, believe me that clock watching becomes tiresome very quickly.

Flogas wasn't coming up as an option for me when looking on bonkers. I had a look directly on their website. I went from 28c with bord gais to 22.5c. Looking at my previous 2 month bill it would have come in about €80 cheaper. Nice saving!

Received my renewal from Flogas but it was not true to reality.

They said they would continue my previous years discounts and all I needed to do was click a button. After reading all the details on the screen they were clearly pushing me onto a table of rates for Day/Peak/Night which I didn't have before so it was a little disengenuos of them to say they were only going to be continuing my discounts because they were offering me the same percentage discounts but neglected to say they would change me onto a non 24hr priceplan.

I called them up and choose the other offer, Dual Fuel 24 Hr Smart Loyalty which closely matches my outgoing rates by around 2c a KW/H. They speak in Incl Vat prices on the phone but the email speaks in Excl Vat Prices. A lot of that information is a foreign language to some people.

I can understand why people just don't switch and just trust the supplier. I never do.

You can do "level pay". They all call it something different. You pay a fixed price every month including in the summer when using little to no gas for example. You then can budget each month specific figures for gas and electricity. Costs nothing to arrange directly with them. I'm at it years. You'll still get normal bills but they won't debit the big Jan/Feb gas bill as it'll your agreed monthly figure instead.

They can review it annualy to see if the average payment will be enough. If you're in credit and leave you'll get that money back.

Recently bought an EV so went with smart rate. 11pm to 8am charging car at 13.5 cent isnt bad?

I have not seen a case ever of a supplier doing you a good deal (after the first year) without you having to ring them up or set in motion the process of leaving them. It's a pity but there's a small bit of leg work required on the consumers behalf annually to get the best deals.

Electric Ireland did a very good deal automatically for people rolling off a OneBigSwitch deal a few years ago.

But other than that, its usually a case of robbing the out of contract customers.

Flogas.

Three or four days. I would never do the change through the comparison site, it adds pointless complexity.

anybody still doing good affinity deals?

My year is up with my current supplier (energia) last week, I had done my homework last Friday and over the weekend, and a flogas deal came out thr best, tried to do the change over yesterday but it wouldn't allow me (I assumed because of it been sunday). I go on today and the deal I wanted is gone, along with what looked like many more, cheapest night rate offering now been 20.48 as opposed to 13.46 yesterday. Is this due to the start of a new month or other influences i.e. middle east conflicts?

Quick off the mark if the increase is due to the latest war.Its over the odds-oil increase 10&15% so far.They must have no bought in stock if rate increased