Whats your energy bill like?

Certainly basements or cellars are rare in Ireland.

Though Irish Georgian houses often have basements and cellars. Often used for coal in the day.

https://www.thejournal.ie/georgian-cellars-dublin-908479-May2013/

Done👍👍👍you want me to get my card reader too?

Both SSE & Electric Ireland have said that they will operate on a near zero profit this year.

Its those with the gas fields that are making the big profits

what the actual F? I'm sorry - I can't get my head around this?

My total gas and leccy bill for a YEAR in a monsterously oversized house (only me and the wife) was a grand.

How are you spending 1665 in 2 months? I assume this is a business - can't be a house/home?

You can borrow an energy saving kit for free from your local library and they have a plug in energy monitor inside them to check individual appliances and see how much power they consume. Theres also an infra red gun in the kit for finding cold spots in your house and some thermometers to check fridge & freezer temperatures. I used the energy monitor to test the consumption on boiling a full (1.5litre) 2,100 watt kettle with it. My unit rate is 29 cents per kwh and the slightly over 5 minute boil cost 6 cents.So I doubt boiling the kettle to fill a hot water bottle is costing you that much that it would make your bill go up so much by 2.5 times. Were the previous bills estimates?

Probably still on the 40% discount plan with BG. That's what I was on, started off at 16c... It's 39.5 now with their 18% retention deal.

What plan are on with your provider? Unless you're on a smart meter plan or have a day/night meter, running things off peak makes absolutely no difference to your bill. A standard meter or unactivated smart meter hasn't a clue what time of the day it is, you might as well be on Jupiter as far as it's concerned. A work colleague's brother bought an Id4 and is still on his ancient 24hr plan from the ESB, ah shur I just give the wife me money and she pays the bills is what he told me😏

I'm on the Home Electric Standard + plan with Electric Ireland. Cheaper rates at night

Energia 1 year fixed rate plan from Sept 22, 29c day and 9c night.there was thread on here(boards) about it

Nice one. Nice to see someone win. I assume that plan is gone now?

The fixed price Energia EV plan is still there but getting day/night units for 29c/9c is gone since late August when I renewed with them, it is now gone way up 48c/14c for the same plan.

It was pure luck that I dodged the bullet of sky high prices in that I always renew (or switch) in August every year. If my 12 month contract had of ended in October or November I would have been screwed as that was when all the power companies really went in hard with the price increases.

Latest bill, for Dec and Jan, is €314.

Previous one was €248.

Assuming the use over Xmas period, more people at home for 2 weeks, to blame?

I don't think that electricity plan ever made it to the Bargain Alerts forum (I heard of it on the EV forum), but if it did, it would have surely been the deal of the year. I got it a little later than yourself, (3rd September), but still fixed at 30c day, 9.5c night. And a reasonable (ish) gas rate...(13c). Fixed until next September, so missed out on the crazy price hikes in October.

Also, I spent €50 to break my EI contract at the time, which was a god send, if I had waited for it to expire in February, I wouldn't be able to get anything close to the above.

I was taking the piss. Sometimes Im unsure of how pisstakey to make it before it correctly gets recognised as being so. Apparently the bar is quite high

1442 kWh for Dec Feb, totalling €517, so approx 35c a unit, incl of all charges.

Now, 320kWh of that was to 1600km on an EV.

So, for the 1990s bungalow of 2 kids and 2 adults. Dec/Jan

Removing EV, Electric €392

Oil approx €300

Coal approx €200

Total €892 or about €15 per day.

Likely the most demanding period of year, but still an ouch.

Came in at 150 Euro for November and December after EI/gov rebates adding up to 250 Euro. Around 900kw/h used which is a significant improvement on last years 1800kw/h during the same period. A combination of reduction and installing solar has seem to paid off. Generated close to 360kw/h over the two months.

Yeah things like not using the electric shower, ever. We just wash from the hot water tank instead as that gets heated by the heating, timed immersion and any excess when the battery is full. That's saved us a lot in a family of four. Things like using the dryer and washing machine/dishwasher during the day as well as it's usually supplemented with the solar and most batch cooking occurs during the daytime as well.

Where are you getting 29c from? I'm charged 44.44c and can't see anything close to your rate on bonkers.

lol yeah, especially the 9c night rate. Ive moved any use of the dishwasher & washing machine to after 11pm so they are really cheap to run and the hot water is on overnight too. 40% of my usage now is at night rates which is decent, I couldnt get it any higher. Pity I dont have an EV to really take advantage.

Thats crazy cheap. I just got my bill, there is also 6 of us. 1 adult home all day but thats probably almost no usage tbh.

4 kids home from 3pm. Bill for the last 2 months was 750 euro. Somethow we use around 1600 units per month, I still struggle to figure out what in the blue hell is sucking it all up tbh.

Whoops, i should of said 1600 per bill, not per month.

Units:1781 Rate: 0.3970 Unit Type General: 707.06

Thats the breakdown, its time to break out the smart plugs again and start trying to find out whats in the blue hell is sucking up all these units as last time I looked into it I couldnt figure it out at all. Done all the obvious stuff etc... Its still insanely high.

Gas Boiler thats not used much, Gas bill does be pretty small.

Only shower thats used is a power shower, I know they are expensive so used for quick showers. Other than that there is nothing major on that I can attribute this unit usage to. Its been wrecking my head.