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Too late now as it's been installed. I assume they won't come back and take it out now free of charge.

Didn't do much research on it myself apart from reading that smart meters were being rolled out across the country, customers benefit from new tarrifs blah blah blah. And getting multiple letters in the post. So as I said, pretty much forced on me.

Someone on one of the renewable threads confirmed you can get your smart meter switched out. A day night meter is the only job.

Yeah from some of the FIT plans and resulting import tariffs coming out you'd be better off giving the electricity away for free

Its actually disgusting what they have done with the smart meters.

I have compared them extensively and there is not one that isnt significantly more expensive than an ordinary day/night plan. We have about 50% of our electricity on night (Night was 6c per kwh for 9 housrs two years ago. Started going up last year. Now its more than double that on the same plan with the discountand going up again).

Sure you can get the EV plan which is cheaper for a few hours only but Jesus, the price you then pay for electricity outside those 3 hours will break you.

And then you have the plans with a free day at the weekend (if you are in to use it - FUP also), and look at the unit rates for any days that arent your free day on that. You'll be losing significantly on that too.

This whole smart meter bull is an effort to make it too confusing to notice the great swindle.

Oh and look at the standing charges too.

I already asked and they told me i would have to get it swapped out. Then if i ever wanted to get the smart meter back it would cost me €200.

I did look into it, for the Day/Night plans on EI & Energia, it says clearly, you have to have a day/night meter, in order to avail of the Day/Night meter tarriffs.

Meter swapped out in 5 minutes, some confusion over cost, as Bord Gais told me €190,at point of order, but when i rang up to see about final bill, to double check they seemed unsure.

In any event, have switched over to EI Day/Night 26% off rate plan, ex vat, 20.39/10.06.

Rang Energia & Bord Gais, they were both off those rates, but Bord Gais were way off. Energia agent said they were not aware of the special retention cash back amounts, they said thats with the customer retention department.

EI won’t accept my N26 bank details, called them and they said it has to be an EI Iban, i thought, those days were gone, clearly not !

Yes, the newer day/night meters are all now digital meters, or, are you saying you have a “smart meter”, but on a day/night rates.

Night is currently 00:00 to 09:00

(night tarriff applicable for 9 hours)

Day currently is 09:00 to 00:00

I spoke to two different people in EI , on two separate calls,l today, both said the same thing to me, i had the identical scenario with Bord Gais a year ago, eventually got that changed.

The call centre people work off scripts, is there someone in Electric Ireland in Ireland, that i can speak to to get this sorted out, and whats the number ? As the call centre is a bit of a joke, seems to be based in India

Bord Gais originally told me when i ordered the Day/Night meter there would be a charge of €190 odd, however, they have since advised me, when i queried this, that there is no charge, if you have not previously had one, which, is the case for me.

So for others considering day/night, there should only be a charge, only for those who have historically had a day/night meter.

There is a fair useage policy i think. Someone posted on here about how they get the car charged and the washing done on a Saturday and they save a fortune. Then someone posted the FUP and also asked them if they never went out on a Saturday, and had they noticed the huge unit rate for every other day. They never answered.

I have an OWL energy meter for the last 6 or 7 years. That shows me exactly what the smart meter does, but in real time. Switch on the shower and it shows you that instant what the usage has changed to.

Night rate is 9c (50% of usage is on night rate), day rate is 18c (Obviously all going up by a heft amount next month). Those prices are inc VAT.

There is no smart plan to even come near comparing to that.

True, just interesting now to see exact details when I wouldn't have had a clue before.

Its with Electric Ireland. Its their 30% discount day/night rate. But going up in May I believe along with all the rates. And the standing charge is going up a huge amount too which is very suspect. I have an energy plug on the dishwasher. I can tell you for definite it uses 6.5c worth of electricity to wash the dishes on the normal wash on the night rate :)

My bugbear is they took us off that rate when we got the smart meter and put us on 17.5c all day rate.

The best day/night rate we can go back to now is the one posted by fafy on the last page

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Someone in our house who will remnain anonymous could have refused it but didnt know :)