Electricity Prices

Don't energia have a quota of what you can use at the reduced rate?

Don't they all? Definitely no reward for loyalty with any of them?

Reduced rate as in night rate? I don't think so, energy providers get ver low rates at night possibly free for them at times. Don't think they offer free time to customers though.

BordGais have a fair usage policy on free units of 100KWh per month which we are doing our best to get to but will probably fall a bit short.

was with Flogas and nearly got rode bare back and side saddle combined when the contract ended.

Luckily I wasn't on a smart meter at the time and avoided most of it.

Possibly........... but do you live alone? or with family?

2 teenagers here can increase power consumption significantly when they are around.

Nobody can really answer this for you. Smart meter only tells you what comes in not where it goes. Book an energy testing kit from your county Library and monitor individual appliances you could be surprised. Even a multimeter with Clamp Meter if you have one / can use one will highlight what's really power hungry.

for example a basic PC may consume 50W but a Gaming PC playing a Graphics intensive game 500W, 2 Gaming PC's in this house but are banned during the peak hours. A TV could vary from 50 - 300W depending on age and size.

Electric oven could be3000W, Kettle 2000W toaster 1000 - 2500W

Water Pressure pump 600W, Modern Septic tank 100W for compressor and 800W when pump kicks in.

An Old chest freezer could be consuming much more than a new one.

Appliances on Standby, Chargers plugged in and nothing charging.

Smart meters also show half hourly usage which is not that useful.

I made a monitor that captures the flashing light on the meter on converts to real time usage which is useful for finding exactly what is being consumed right now.

Had online meetings this morning so Kettle went on a lot must get a vacuum flask type kettle to save re-boiling

Most likely will be very skewed by estimated billing and differences in power consumption between Sept/Oct.

Just checking on bonkers.ie and I can save approx €120 by going from 5.5% discount night rate to 10% but this is only available through bonkers. It has a new contract term of 1 year. Its electric ireland. Is it safe enough to go through Bonkers.ie?

I've used bonkers.ie for the last 5 or 6 years, no problem

I'd look for a cheque and not presume it's lost tbh. They'd chase you for payment if it were the other way.

Switched in September, but discounts for switching I hear have been cut in half since then.

Ah yes, I was assuming bill pay too. If pre pay, now is the time to get welding :D

But lots of bill pay accounts could be in credit at the moment due to the government grant, so I wouldn't be leaving it behind if that's the case.

@emaherx

Oh aye I forgot about the government credit!!! I wonder if you change provider would the original provider forward on the credit to the new provider,

Or would it be the case like I mentioned in my previous comment, where they credit it to your bank account or send a cheque, hopefully that'd be the case, although probably not, as the government want the money to go towards the electricity bill, aren't I right in saying pay as you go customers got the amount automatically added to there accounts, as in they weren't sent cheques or whatever by the government, oh what a quandary.

@sami23 as you mentioned you are bill pay, so if you changed provider (from Energia) and you were in credit of your own money, your money won't be lost, and should be credited to the bank account you pay Energia with, or by cheque if you pay at the post office/postpoint, also I just checked it out Energia is actually the most expensive provider at the minute, even new customers don't get much of, now I may be wrong, there might be another provider more expensive.

My contract was up there last month. I stayed with eirtricity. Tried bonkers and that one big switch site, nothing really available on both… Checked ESB and Bord Gais and they were offering less of a discount…

Changed to a smart meter as well so we’ll see how that goes…

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