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Avoiding fee to switch electricity meters?

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  • 07-10-2014 1:00pm
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    Mousewar
    Registered Users Posts: 2,741 ✭✭✭


    Moved into a house five years ago with a night saver meter. Getting real sick of it and want to change to the normal 24h meter but looks like it's going to cost me approximately €200 to do the switch.
    Two questions:

    1 - Currently, I mange to do about 30% of my electricity usage during the nightsaver hours. That percentage will decrease quite a bit soon as my wife will be staying at home all day. Anyone know whether paying the €200 fee would be worth it and how long it would take to recoup the expense?

    2 - Anyone manage to sweet talk any of the providers into forgoing the fee? I never chose to switch to the nightsaver meter in the first place (which was free apparently), it was just there when I moved in. I just spoke to Electric Ireland there and offered them my business in return for switching the meter for free but no dice...


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    Mrs OBumble
    Registered Users Posts: 25,966 ✭✭✭✭Mrs OBumble


    Can you explain why you want to come off the nightsaver rate - won't that make you electricity more expensive????

    What exactly is there to be getting sick of? Sure there's a click twice day, but there's no difference for you any other way.


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    Mousewar
    Registered Users Posts: 2,741 ✭✭✭Mousewar


    I want to come off it as currently I only use 30% of my electricity during the nightsaver hours and that is set to drop significantly in the near future. Therefore, it would be significantly cheaper for me to have a normal 24h rate.


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    Victor
    Registered Users Posts: 78,422 ✭✭✭✭Victor


    How much electricity do you use per year?

    What rates are you paying. What would the standard rate be? What are the standing charges?


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    ukoda
    Registered Users Posts: 2,084 ✭✭✭ukoda


    Mrs OBumble wrote: »
    Can you explain why you want to come off the nightsaver rate - won't that make you electricity more expensive????

    What exactly is there to be getting sick of? Sure there's a click twice day, but there's no difference for you any other way.

    if you have a night saver meter your day unit rate is higher than the standard day rate on a 24 hour meter. if you don't use enough at night you'd be way better off on a 24 hour meter


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    ukoda
    Registered Users Posts: 2,084 ✭✭✭ukoda


    Victor wrote: »
    How much electricity do you use per year?

    that doesn't really matter, whats important is how much he uses every night, if its less than 30% he's better off on a normal 24 hour meter

    OP - get you calculator out and work out how much you'd save switching to a 24 hour meter and weigh it up against the 200 euro

    and to answer your 2nd question, no supplier will give you one for free - they all have to pay for an ESB Networks guy to go out, so they all pass the charge to the customer


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