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

It tends to take up to 10 working days. I started switching on the 18th of March and it was March 31st before the final bill was issued with charges up to March 22nd at the rates of the tariff that had just finished.

The BGE 33% discount plan can be found at:

https://onebigswitch.ie/campaigns

I got an email from Bord Gais today offering a 40% discount on the electricity rate to renew with them, they have to send me out the tariff details. I will wait and see now what the new increased rates are.

Could you post the rates when you get them please, it does seem to be a different way of doing things, 10% for new customers and better rates for existing, finally treating existing customers like they are valued although no one has provided actual details.

All their rates are on their website under "Energy > Our Tariffs Explained".

https://www.bordgaisenergy.ie/home/our-tariffs

I've just been looking into this also and it looks like BG unit rates are approx. 10% more than say EI. So a 15% discount with EI is probably equivalent to a 25% discount with BG. I'm half wondering if BG are going to do a Tesco job and just over-inflate their standard prices further in due course while appearing to offer a huge discount (via use of a Clubcard in the case of Tesco) which gets cancelled out...

I know you can still see (most of) the plans the energy providers are offering but you can't follow through and sign up with them and on one of the sites at least they won't give you a breakdown of your current plan vs the new plan. Why I wrote what I did is they are funded by commissions. They only do the comparison part of their service so that people like us are drawn to their website, leading to a lot of us switching through them. They may get paid by newspapers for some content re the energy market but if the energy providers refuse the let them sell their products their main revenue is gone. If they lose that revenue they will go out of business.

I once applied to switch on the last day of my contract and was charged an early exit fee. The last two switches the day when I applied to switch and got my next bill from the new supplier, the Start period of the bill was the day when I applied to switch e.g. applied to switch on 17/08/2022, got billed by EI up to 16/08/2022 and Energia bill covered period from 17/08/2022 onwards.

Where did you get that deal?

Did you get a deal on renewal?

He said EI

Call them & see what they are offering. It might be worth your while calling EI as well to see what they can offer to retain your custom.

I signed up to Energia at the beginning of Sept for Duelfuel with the EV plan before the increases. Also got the 12 month fixed rate for electricity. Looking back on my contract, for Gas it also says “12 Month Fixed Term Unit Rate”, anyone noticed that?

It uses the exact same language for my electricity which is a fixed rate so was wondering. I guess I know when I get first bill. Thx

If you didn't submit a reading before the price change you're going to be relying on their estimate, and from my experience I reckon energy companies without meter readings get their estimates from the same magical place insurance companies get their quotes. Without a reading, they can effectively bill you however they want and you won't be able to dispute it. I'd suggest submitting a meter reading ASAP to avoid being shafted.