3 Phase *Running* Costs Question

Thanks, I understand most of that and we are confirmed both on three phase availability and works costs.

I'm not concerned with those charges, but with the basic unit rates and the way in which they are offered. In a basic sense, can I still avail of whatever home packages are offered etc and whether anyone has experience of this. This is what I can't get any answers on.

What I can't get answers on is whether, say, all the standard Electric Ireland packages apply that I can chose from in a domestic setting, ditto for all other companies or whether by doing this I end up committing to some "commercial" style system / costs package that has a different tariff or different way of billing.

Thanks, yes, as long as I stay a domestic user (whether DG1 or 2) I would assume domestic user rates would apply. My concern is staying a domestic user with this up and running. Contacting suppliers is the problem as they can't answer whether by reason of call centre approach or whatever.

I'm perhaps not being clear here. Thanks for your time. What I was hoping to find was someone, on a residential 3 phase connection who could confirm that they still have the same tariff access as before without additional layers of annoyance when trying to deal with it.

Sorry, I was away from this. Its a long story, but there is three phase availability at very little cost. The relevant "stuff" has all been built on the lands. There are specific pieces of electricity infrastructure which I've been told are the 3 phase "things". The house some considerable distance from the roads and the point really is that all this work has been done, so there is very little left to do. I don't know why the prior owner didn't complete it, having done and paid so much, but they didn't. I suspect they intended to operate a workshop, but then business tanked or something like that. In any event, the supply as far as I can tell has been brought about 700m off the road, up to about 5m from the house with two poles standing up with a very specific looking device on the poles which is what everyone looks at when they come here and then asks "do you have 3 phase here?

However, I just wanted to know if we obtain a 3 phase connection, is there a change in the range of rates / tariff's available or whether I'd be fighting with retailers trying to put me on commercial rates etc.

Thank you, this is precisely the kind of things I wanted to know.

And separately thanks to the following poster. The lesson is to police strongly the domestic nature of it (which it is) - its really just about making sure new showers run with a relatively big heat pump and two EV's charging as well as charging a few other vehicles I use for the landscaping etc.