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

Smart plan, he must have a smart meter, it definitely looks like the way to go to get a good D/N rate with a decent standing charge. It looks like the old typ D/N meter's days are numbered.

Cheaper standing charge?

did you just ring energia up and ask for their best rate, I’m with Energia too, contract is up soon, that’s a pretty good day and night rate

I rang them and asked for that tariff, no way would they come anywhere near it, looks like I will be moving to someone else who has a cheap enough night and day rate

I don’t know if this is the right place and I have asked similar on reddit and didn’t get very far.

Bils kept going up and up, so started equalizer payments, then seen 4 months of the same usage (and still in march but could tell me what I used in April).

Found you can check your own meter reading on esb networks and I did and also tried to supply my own readings, but said no need as smart meter and would issue a bill (it was overdue and I was told because of bank holiday)

Bill arrives into my account, I go from 140 in credit too owning them 11 or so, bill was 150 or so, but I thought was being covered by equaliser payment (100 a month they set it at)

I have stopped equaliser payments and did look on bonkers/switcher/energy pal and I think I would save 67 a year moving too flowgas (heard not good)

So, a long story, but wondering is this the same experience others have had? Are this the famous reading issues I have heard about?

Well i thought the idea was they look at your bills and say x is the average amount, so half that and thats your amount each month or even a bit over, rather than the reverse then the customer thinks they have money over and the next day its the opposite.

I am trying to see if its out of the frying pan and into the fire for a euro or so a week saving.

Cheers, I pushed again but best I could get was 29 day, 33 peak and 16 night, so I took that. I was going to go with Flogas but they've again revised their numbers upwards, they're now offering 30c as their 24 hour rate compared with 26c only a few days ago, so I'm happy to renew with energia now and forget about it

The day rate for the no peak plan is slightly higher than the plan with a peak rate. Im usually in work during peak hours so having a slightly lower day rate suits me better.

The best discount I could get with energia is 30% off standard rates, so aim for at least that for anyone else renewing with them.

They also asked me did I want to lock that discount rate in for a 2 year contract rather 1, I refused.

Have to do my gas next, Flogas at 8.99c incl VAT looks the cheapest on the market right now but trying to get through to them on the phone to see if they can better it involves stupidly long wait times.

It seems to be 9.27c now

Energia renewal on the previous 41% discount from last year:

32% discount

Day 29.91c - Night 14.74c - SC 331.97c

or Smart meter activation

Day 28.65c - Peak 31.17c - Night 15.75c (no overusage charge) - SC 265.01c

Heavy user always above 2000kwh bimonthly with 2 EVs so tempted to finally give in and activate the smart meter