Whats your energy bill like?

Anyone with electric Ireland should have got €50 credit on top of the €200

About 600 quid but have 400 in credit. We run an ev and an air source heat pump and all our cooking is electric also.

Logged in this morning, no issues on this end.

Just had the bill from EI, €229.36. Two adults in a timber framed bungalow, oil central heating. That includes a long over night charge for my son's Tesla !

To be honest I was expecting higher, that's for 478 units. It leaves us €38.84 in credit after the credits are taken off.

Gas is €680 for the xmas period. Used a bit more heating than last year but last years was €220. Too big a jump!!!

This was Bord Gais with 40% discount.

And we have just changed supplier to 18% discount and higher rates so next years will be nearer €1000. It’s insane, what a rip off but there’s nothing you can do..

Bord gais were offering us a new rate double what i am currently on - (13.44 v 7.39KWH)…can’t imagine the bills with this….

ELECTRICITY is a similar story but at least we get €200 towards that for now…

Are folk not being more conservative with energy usage in the last six months? Not just because of cost but also because of potential blackouts. I know I've cut back considerably, but then I notice neighbours have lights celebrating Christ's birthday festooning their garden that can be seeing from space

Yeah it’s terrible being able to stroll around in bare feet comfortably 24/7. No ash to clean. No particulates damaging the lungs.

Electricity was a shocker 518, I had the two government payments plus 200 I had paid towards it leaving me with 90 odd credit, unfortunately it's my last bill getting 40% discount from BG. I'm going on to an 18% discount on the 18th which is a unit rate of 39.5c I'm dreading the bill in March tbh, it's really stressing me out😡😡. I think this year will be extremely difficult for people as their high percentage discounts end, I know it will be for me. Hard to believe this time last year I was joining BG @ 16c per unit.

My family home's electricity bills are just shocking. The most recent bill from EI at end of December was €545. The usage is so high - double the published national average - and always has been. Currently 3 adults (2 elderly) living there, just 2 for most of the week. I don't think there is anything unusual in their usage but bills have always been astronomical.

What's the standing charge on both?

You will get it automatically from Electric Ireland ,my is already in my account just checked , so with government credit I'm now €250 in credit, bill due in 2 weeks, should be a big one with Christmas.

That’s good. I feel like the settings on our heat pump might be wrong. 1800 sq ft extension built in 2017 but it’s linked to a cottage and not airtight at that end. We are on a much better rate than most at moment with 27 cents day and 8 night rate with 50% use on night rate. Electricity accounts for almost all our energy usage though. EV does 30k km a year.

That's absolutely scandalous, it was the only plan I was considering moving to, I should have known better, typical EI behaviour.

We got our gas bill over €500 for Nov, Dec but that doesn't cover the Christmas period, stopped just before that.

To be honest I thought it would be worse, we have big enough house and heating was on a lot during that freezing cold period.

No electricity bill yet but that's usually a lot less as our heating, hot water, hob etc all runs off gas.

My husband has just informed me that the current bill is based on 'old rates' not 'new rates' can't wait for next bill so!

Two months electricity with Energia €175, paid for by the €200 government subsidy and my gas bill was €110 for 2 months.

Gas during the summer was €30 avg. - for 2 months !

3 Bed semi, 2 adults and 2 kids.

House recently renovated and I spent a lot of money insulating all external facing internal walls by adding insulated plasterboards, cavity walls pumped and attic reinsulated.

I took up the old floating floor boards, dug out the old under floors, added radon barrier and fully insulated the whole downstairs floor before repouring the concrete, upper part of the floor then covered it in the gold foil under laminate insulation.

I got rid of the electric shower and attached a shower mixer to the gas combi boiler I installed, when you shower, just turn on the tap and there is always hot water there heated by the gas, the gas only turns on when you turn on the shower tap and goes off then when you turn off the shower, no electricity eating shower at all.

By the sounds of some of the posts here the insulation is paying for itself already !

Last elec bill for Oct/Nov was 238 and we had our 200 credit so not too bad. Next gas bill is due end of Jan, absolutely dreading it reading these comments

€225 euro for Nov-Jan, credit from Government covered it and tbf the Christmas Tree lights and the like it isnt so bad.