Best Electricity Plan for new EV Owners

They still haven't called me back and it's been 3 days. I have no idea what's going on with my account being set up.

Next time I call them I'm asking for a supervisor, it needs to be resolved that day. If something is going on behind the scenes I need to query it with ESB/GNI or whoever and that will take even more time. Who the **** knows what rates I'll be on now due to everyone else arsing around.

Bord Gais seem to have dropped their free weekend and EV plans this morning, only their standard smart tariff shows up now.

New customer discount also gone from 32% to 15%.

Jaysus... Energia EV plan is now down to 10% discount and increased standard rates so a net price of 47.77, 13.75 c/kWh and apparently no longer fixed!!

I really hope my first bill honours the fixed rate I got a month ago!... 27.43/7.90 inc vat!!! 🤞

I don't think that's the EV plan, but their standard new business day/night plan - and I agree, it's outrageous.

On the phone to them myself yesterday - very frustrating - customer care pushed me over to the sales team who began leading with that same tariff above until I reminded them the customer care team had "promised" me they would get me on the tariff I intended at the start of September before my switch was blocked by ESB Networks. Also when I queried those rates as being quite high for the EV plan I got the response...."OH YOU MEAN THE EV PLAN!!! My apologies, yes of course that's much lower....." but then couldn't tell me how much lower and that she had to check in with customer care again to be sure, and by the way it's now 5:01pm and customer care is closed so we will call you first thing in the morning to conclude this.

Needless to say, no call this morning. Annoying.

Got my first bill, they honoured the 29.6c/8.9c rate(inc vat fixed) I signed up to on the 1st September, you should be ok.

Holy fluck!🙈🙈🙈

I received my confirmation email from Energia today after signing up for the ev plan last week. The details in the email were wrong, showing the standard day/ night plan.

When I called they said there it was a problem on their system and that they were getting a load of calls from new customers.

Got this wonderful €250 estimated bill from Electric Ireland even though I'm supposed to be with Energia the last 2 weeks. I guess this solidifies the fact I'm not with Energia!

Previous bill pre-EV was around 220kWh for the 2 month period so not sure where they got a 750kWh estimate from. We used around 4kWh/day in Summer.

Did you make any headway with this? Which plan seems best for you?

Is it worth signing up to something now (finding the best of a bad bunch, tbh) or keeping still and wait (wishfully) for the CRU or European energy ministers to do something for the electricity market (if there's going to be something is that likely in the next 2-3 months)?

What prices are on that plan? I tried looking in the site but the site just keeps saying searching....

I got a "smart" meter installed about a month ago and assumed it would be activated after this period (turns out that i need my supplier to activate it, but once "activated, there is no going back to a 24 hour plan). I'm sure that wasn't mentioned on the leaflet that was left after the install.. anyway, Is it possible to have my new meter programmed for D/N (MCC02)?

This "smart meter" roll out is a shambles...

Unfortunately not. I had my smart meter removed and a DN installed

Eh. Yes it is.

No, it isnt. You can't get a smart meter and be an MCC02 Day/Night customer. You instead are an MCC16 smart meter customer and, while you may get cheaper rates at night, they are vast realms more expensive than a real Day/Night meter

Those night rates are criminal.