Best Electricity Plan for new EV Owners

On energia the 15% price rise is on the total bill, no rise on standing charges or pso so it’s an average amount of units they are using to get the 15% overall rise in a bill that they advertise - we’ll they said average amount to me but it could be calculated what number of units they are using to get the average 15% rise.

A little misleading as the unit prices are going up 18.2% so a high user using exactly the same units in a 12 month period from 25 April will see their bill rise more than 15% but not more than 18.2% (the rural standing charge of 389 inc vat and pso of 58.57 remain the same).

i have just renewed after a bit of research. As mentioned you can get the bonkers renewal 41% discount deal and €135 cash back if you call energia and mention it to them, they won’t offer it unless you mention bonkers

Yes it’s all a bit odd - I assume they have to pay something to bonkers as well So to renew via bonkers instead of direct they are giving an extra 8% discount, €135 cash back and something to bonkers.

I never noticed the bonkers renewal rate and was complaining on the phone to energia about the 33% and the chap said to me you should really check bonkers, it will be worthwhile - have a look and tell me. I did whilst he was on the phone and he said now you have told me About the bonkers deal I can give you the same deal inc the cash back!

Re Energia, You would be better going for their €225 cash back with 40% discount

Gotta say they're really getting screwed in the UK with the price cap hikes this year. I mean it's a nice idea in theory but if they're just going to raise the cap every time fuel costs go up then what's the point?

id imagine the providers just can’t use fixed pricing across the board. They would be massively exposed if their input price went up… current war situation is the very example of it.

the customer, unfortunately has to pay.

if you force fixed 12mth pricing they will simply provide stupid prices which you won’t go for anyway.

what you need is lots of competition.

Yeah, we're all going to bear the cost of the recent energy price hikes, but it would be nice to see the powers that be do a bit more to take the burden off of consumers

The EU seems to be doing it's usual job of trying to protect market stability (which is basically it's purpose) but there needs to be a bit of acceptance that the stability train left the tracks a long time ago

I mean, would it really be so bad to basically pay for the scaling up of production of wind turbines, solar panels, batteries and pumped storage across the continent? The EU could basically pay for the construction of the required means of production, guarantee a minimum energy prices for several years for renewables to make them pay off quickly, and invest in more interconnection of the national grids

Yes, it's an enormous market intervention that goes against the free market principles. But like I said, the concept of letting the market balance itself out just isn't going to happen anytime soon

I mean, what is going to happen (and if you follow the PV group on facebook is already happening), is that those that have disposable income and thus would be less affected by increasing energy prices are investing in solar and storage. The ones that do not have access to this, lower income households etc, are stuck with the 100% dependancy on energy company pricing. I dont think its right that you can be locked into a contact but the other side of the conttract can change pricing.

I also agree that this is not really much to do with Irish energy companies. However this is where we are missing a chance to step in. Instead of spending millions giving everyone a 200 quid credit which a lot of us - myself included - didnt really need, we should be investing in renewables and storage. Plenty of wind energy off the west coast. Plenty of land no one wants to live on for solar. We could balance out peak demand and lower generation requirements. This price spike should push better choices.

Yeah I agree that something had to be done in the short term to relieve the shock of price increases

There is a limit in how quickly wind turbines can be built, even if all the other roadblocks were removed. And we definitely have no shortage of roadblocks in this country 😬

Hence my earlier comments about the EU investing in the means of production for renewables, as much as investing in the generators themselves

A lot depends on your mileage, that will feed into how much electricity you'll consume for the car and whether it makes sense then to get a night meter

The penalty of a night meter is a higher day rate and standing charge. You can move some of your other consumption to the night rate to take advantage of the lower price as well

You'll also want to figure out your annual consumption without the EV. You can get this from 2 bills spaced about a year apart from the meter readings section

Basically take that, add in your EV consumption and that's your expected usage. Put that into a comparison website like bonkers and it'll tell you your expected bill

Definitely worth considering a night meter in that case, you'd probably save enough on the night rate to justify the higher day rate

If you end up getting a battery, you can potentially charge it from the grid at night. This can help you offset some of the increased consumption in winter when your solar isn't generating as much

Bonkers actually take the upcoming price increases into account, you can see them if you click the "show calculations" button on a particular plan

Of course they only consider the price hikes that have been announced, there's probably more on the way

But as you pointed out, the prices are going up soon, so you'll be paying more than €1000 for the house consumption

The website shows all the calculations, so if there's something wrong it should be there to spot

To be fair I think EI is the cheapest at the moment, assuming they don't raise prices any further

What the link to that plan.

We got a smart meter and now want to change back to day/night.

We have an EV which we charge at night, nut the EV plans have outrageous unit prices for all other usage, especially daytime.

Electric Ireland told us on the phone we could get a day/night meter installed now. I dont get how they cant read the hours of day night from a smart meter though. Probaly something to do with the fact they said it would cost us €200 if we ever wanted to go back to a smart meter again.

There is opt-out option with smart meters.