Best Electricity Plan for new EV Owners

How much will you save by not spending 40c per kwh for 20 hours during the day though?

€2.75 per day if all 10 kWh are used. In other words a grand a year. That's actually worth it and doesn't include getting any Feed In Tariff if he has solar as well. Exporting 3,000 kWh with an 8c margin is another €240 off the bill.

That's about €2,000 of gross salary worth of savings to put it into a different perspective. (At 35% tax)

Preceded it a few days if the customer emails are anything to go by.

Looks like no real value in any of the providers at the moment, without going for a silly 3 or 4 hour window for low-mileage drivers.

And?? I thought they bought megawatts in advance, well that's the excuse they trot out when gas prices fall and unit rates don't, by that reasoning the reverse should apply, anyway I thought we/the EU had built up gas reserves to shield us from these price spikes.

I'm not picking a fight at all, but they seem to have every excuse under the sun to shaft us, I certainly wasn't having a go at you.

Luckily enough, we got ported over to the flogas day/night fixed plan yesterday. Applied 2 weeks ago. Moved from Energia EV plan due a second EV at home.

I'm in a bit of a pickle. My energia contract expires on 1st April. Jump now and get stung with a penalty or wait and potentially get stung with crap tariff options in April.

50 quid will seem like loose change when we see the rates coming shortly.

Already the favourable day/night tariffs that were available just a few days ago have been removed from the providers offerings.

Buckle up.

There was a few decent options last Sunday, but gone by Tuesday I noticed. You're in the 30/15 territory now, which is indeed crap.

SSE have a tariff that would suit me but I'd need to buy a battery to make it pay. Day and peak is 33.76 cents but 11pm to 5am is 12.13 cents.

I could fill the 16kWh battery to cover the house and put 30kWh (assuming 5kWh per hour) into the EV on Sunday, Tuesday and Wednesday nights to cover the days I'm in the office which is a 250km round trip - I'd still need to draw juice from 7pm to 11pm on those days to ensure the battery was fully topped up but I'd still be getting 50kWh for around €10 which is a steal compared to my petrol car which is burning through about €40 (at last week's prices) covering the same distance.

I actually forgot my solar was out of action for the guts of 3 months last spring and summer. thankfully energypal has the option to select dates so i used the previous years data and it came up with a different tariff this time from Electric Ireland which works out well for me. it is ever so slightly more expensive what I'm currently on but will work out much cheaper (i reckon i'll be in the black) if i add a battery.

anyway i signed up so alls good.

in the main they are not more expensive than a standard night rate or at least that's what i can see from energypal.

my night rate is 15.05 cents with the EV rate at 8.84 cents. The blended rate over the 9 hour night rate period is 13.67 cents.

I can charge the battery for 1 hour at 15c/kWh and 2 hours at 8.84c/kWh. A 16kWh battery from 10% to 100% would cost €1.53 to charge. An EV charging over the 9 hour period would consume 45kWh or €6.15 at the blended night rate.

I'll cross that bridge when I come to it. As things were I was going to be out of contract at the end of the month and facing a significant uptick in rates.