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

Ding ding ding

electricity +8%, gas +7.7%, from 1 July. https://www.rte.ie/news/2026/0528/1575704-electric-ireland/

Unbelievable. Just gets worse and worse living here with those electricity price increases.

Disappointing but not unexpected. I think we were all expecting a price rise given they stated last year there would be no price rises over the winter.

and how many times plus how much was it increased by? Pretty sure most providers did multiple increases. Record profits incoming.

Electric Ireland have not increased prices since October 2022. There have been a number of price decreases in that time. When most other suppliers increased prices pre-winter, EI did not.

As EI are government owned, there are strict rules about how they can operate. They cannot use profits in one division to offset losses in another i.e. one division of the ESB cannot be used to offset losses in Electric Ireland. There's very little evidence to show EI are gouging customers in the residential sector and there is almost no incentive for them to do so.

At the same time they're likely not operating any division of their business on a not-for-profit basis, which is the real crux of the issue

I'm not saying the ESB should be run at a loss. If it was run as a not-for-profit, ie their net financials at the end of the year were zero, it would make far more sense. Our current situation of having 6 or 7 different companies buying at the same rate but then selling to us at slightly different rates depending on how much they want to profit never really worked

Those energy credits are a complete faff as they don't take account of the higher energy users. Somebody with electric cars or heat pumps for example would swallow up those credits very fast whereas people with big enough solar panel arrays could still have a bit left over from the last round of energy credits. If they do have to insist on keeping the market privatised they should do like the UK do and cap unit prices using those vast profits the ESB will be making over the coming weeks

At one point the entire electricity market, creation, supply, distribution and billing was run by the state owned non-profit ESB. At the time we had one of the lowest unit rates in all of Europe. Some bird-brained politicians decided to privatise the market in the late 2000's resulting in us now having the highest prices in Europe.

Not sure about anyone else but my delayed Flogas bills have started to arrive. I got my March - April bill.

I received an email from them earlier this morning apologising etc and that they will be taking payment of delayed bills 14 days after issue. Mentions that their credit control team are available if I would like to discuss a payment arrangement. Which I'll be doing, April, May and in a couple of weeks June bills to be issued. Certainly won't be in a position to pay them all in full at around the same time.

My bills from flogas are coming through regular as clockwork, I’ve usually enough topped up on the portal to cover it

Price increase by EI is disappointing but not unexpected. I signed up last October on the basis they said prices were frozen for the winter which is when I use more units with electric heating. Had thought though the increase wouldnt come till September but instead its July. Im going to stay with them for now as the others are likely to increase soon now the starting gun has been fired, it wouldnt surprise me if one or two do it next week.

Anyway as we are fast heading back to 45c a unit I reckon despite current resistance the Govt. will end up going back to the energy credits this winter. It will become hard for them to justify having massive budget surpluses in the billions and not doing something on electricity bills again.

The EI unit rates are actually increasing by 9.5%.

Out of contract on a 24 hour rate with Energia. Anyone point me in the right direction of who's offering best rates at present?

From July 1st EI's standard unit rate will be 35.3 cents. That's gouging to me given that there are many elderly and long term customers on this rate and have never availed of a discount. Neither have they been offered one.

It's all well and good for us on here that understand the value and process of changing utilities regularly but there are many that aren't capable of doing this.