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

Probably the easiest way to think of the EV is you get 10% charge an hour. So an EV rate with a 3 hour window is only a 30% top up each night. Energia have 4 hours so 40%.

If you use more than that you are plugging in every night and worried about forgetting to plug in. So a good 15c full night rate really is better than a 10c window.

If you use 10-20% a day then a EV window is fine as you only need to plug in every other day. But use so little it's hardly worth the higher day price.

not really a gamble at all if you simply put the money aside

yea, it is 25 cent, end of.

there is no additional 9% vat which some are adding incorrectly

Sounds about right... I think the contract is tied to an MPRN which is obviously tied to your current address. If you were just changing the name of your house or something, then it would be a different story. But you are talking about a completely different property and therefore MPRN etc.

I did that a few years ago with electric Ireland. Just swapped to my wife's name

Eggs and apples here

If they've a smart meter, download their HDF file and upload it to energypal.

If they've a standard meter, take their most recent bill and their first bill (should cover 12 months approximately), subtract the readings from one another to get yearly usage. Pop that into bonkers.

When it comes to D/N rates, it starts to depend on the ratio between the Day and Night units and what is cheapest for one person may be more expensive for others.

Just wondering what are people expecting in terms of unit rates for this winter? Will we see the return of almost 50c a kwh?

One trend I noticed after the war in Ukraine broke out was that providers jacked up standing charges massively to help them disguise even higher unit rates than the ones published on plans. I remember at one point Electric Ireland had a plan with a €420 per year standing charge attached whereas the year before that Id been paying a standing charge of €127 annually with GlowPower at the time.

The Prepay operators can also use this tactic, they can have an eye watering annual standing charge but lower unit rates than competitors, thus allowing them to advertise 'the cheapest electricity in the market'. The practice should be banned IMO and standing charges should be set across all operators as a flat rate.

Im hoping we dont hit the 45c-50c a unit threshold again this winter but its beginning to look inevitable because yer man doesnt know how to get out of a mess of his own making.

How are they going to get it out?

Oil is $118 today.

I can't see how it won't get worse. I'm shopping for a new plan and kicking myself I didn't pay the penalty to change plan a few months ago. But then I got to thinking I might looking at today's prices and thinking the same in a month or two .

I switched to a new plan, I was offered 24% to renew but switched to my wife and got 28%

I don’t think any site will make a suggestion based on predicted changes. It simply looks at your past usage and tells you what the price of the plan would be based on the last 12 months usage.

You need to modify the file to consider shifting usage.

Definitely there is an adjustment required and buy in needed from the older household members (if you have them).

A month before our 24hr plan expired, we practiced shifting our power usage to match TOU plans (day/peak/night).

Then got the HDF file and modified it so that it only had the previous months worth of data and plugged it into to Energypal. Even with a small amount of data, there was a clear indication we would be about €600/yr better off.

A year later and we saved €639 compared to the old 24 plan.

reports coming out they aim to produce and sell 5 to 10m barrels per day

Could be all poppy cock though

What would be considered the best plans for a new build with heat pump heating system at the moment? Currently on a temporary electric Ireland account which doesn't allow access to the smart meter, so I'm currently unable to measure energy usage.

Hoping to get on a plan and set up the smart meter to have oversight of the usage.