Best Electricity Plan for new EV Owners

Just switched to night meter and signed up with EI. Currently working out as 70% night rate, 30 day. Most appliances and Both EV are timed for night use. We are shocked at how easy the change has been

Even though I am mostly working from home, I am managing to put in over 60% of my electricity consumption between 2 and 5am (have the Bord Gais EV Plan with the 2-5am super cheap rate). I have another 14% of my consumption on the night rate.

EV's trully make up for a huge portion of electricity use, so it is rather easy to make it worth it.

These are the current figures for this month.

How will it work out in the winter?

Best of luck with the house👍

I just rang them and the cheapest they would offer me to renew my dual-fuel (my contract with them just expired) was 29.xx incl VAT day and something like 15+ incl VAT night rate. And 7+ for that gas. I pointed out that their website has a plan with 26.5/13.6. "That's for new customers."

It says nothing on the website that I could find about it being only for new customers. Meanwhile BG are offering (for now): 21.7 day incl VAT, 10.74 night, 6.0 on the gas. I realise that this is likely to increase following EI's recent increase. But if I'm out of contract I had to make a decision now so went with the cheapest option currently available.

I know Energia has an EV rate, but we are able to charge the car at work for free much of the time so the higher day rate on that plan doesn't work for us.

So I am out of contract tomorrow with my current energy provider and my plan is to switch to a different provider.

I currently have a regular meter (non-smart) but my EV is arriving mid-September so my plan is to get a night saver meter also as my charging will be overnight and this makes sense.

Should I:

1. Move plans to a regular plan and then get the new supplier to organise/order my night rate meter and then switch to a new night-rate plan with the same provider once it is installed
2. Sign up to a night-rate plan right away (even though I don't have the meter)

My gut says option 1 because there could be a delay in the install of night meter and the unit cost then goes up while I am waiting and also I know that they are pushing smart meters heavily now so they could fight me for a while on the night meter...

BTW: why are the plans on the smart meters so rubbish? They should make them at least equally attractive as the night meter rates (at night) if they want people to move over...

Thanks,

Mike

I know it takes a little while to switch providers but after switching to Airtricity recently I haven't even received a confirmation email. I'll probably ring them tomorrow just to confirm. Anyone switched recently?

Can someone clarify Energia's EV pricing structure. As the numbers on their site are contradictory in several different ways. I'm totally confused.

Standard rate + discount = no problem.

After the 3000/2000kWh limits are hit what happens. One page says 30.42c/kWh & 14.81c/kWh for high usage. The other page says 38.76c/kWh & 18.89c/kWh but also says the discount is pro-rated. The highest high-usage rate given of the 2 is lower than the standard rate so how can it be discounted pro-rata, unless the number given is the discounted unit rate of an absurdly high high-usage rate not given. Yet the 14.81c is on the main offer page and that's lower than the other number. Nor is the lower number the discounted rate of the higher number.

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TLDR: what exactly will I be paying per unit after the high usage rate kicks in on the EV tariff.

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Thanks.

I'd say they have a typo in there alright.

I've been with them quite a few times and go over the high usage values and it has always been the case that you apply the normal discount that you have to the "higher usage rate" and its only a few c/kWh more than you'd normally pay. It was never an exorbitant rate when you go over.

I'd say the 4 values shown in the botton of your screenshot are the actual discounted rates you will pay. They've made it confusing alright though.

I waited until my contract was up, requested the day/night meter, i left the contract roll, and it goes onto standard rates, when you do nothing, there is no obligation to sign up to anything with old supplier, you move onto standard rates, but its only temporary.

as soon as day/night meter was installed i moved supplier, the same day.

I believe it's €180 to have it changed if you want it done a second time.

Who's that with?those numbers are nuts!🙈🙈🙈

Flogas

I can still see it there, seems to have changed to 100% green electricity (it wasn't the case when we got the plan).

The 2am-5am slot is enough to get around 23-24kWh into the car, which for me is 150-160km of range, meanig we don't even charge every night. 1€/100km that's costing us.

I'm on the Energia EV plan with a rural Day and night non smart meter.

I have solar - 6.2Kwp

Still managed to average 2.5KW per day of day rate ( during the best months of the year! )