Switching electric/gas providers (see first post for links)

Maybe it meant you would just be on the standard smart meter tariff?

I didn't think any company would let you move off the smart meter

From Energia’s FAQ:

“No. It is not possible to move back to a non-smart meter tariff once you have selected a Smart Tariff from Energia. You can have a Smart meter installed and remain on your current non-smart tariff.”

This is consistent across all companies, as once you switch to a smart tariff your meter is recoded on the network stopping you from reverting back.

You have to select 'No' to 'Only show tariffs available for sign up?' to show other options. Similar with Switcher.ie

Sorry if this is a rookie question, but are these % discounts comparable? Are they all discounting from the same level?

Edit: I guess this answers my question;

So are condescending gits it appears. The falling business rates were widely reported on all media platforms weeks ago. Just because some people are not great at working out percentages does not mean they are numerically illiterate.

In all fairness, there has been a lot of repetition on this thread, with folk often wanting better discounts rather than rates, as well as to be advised which particular supplier and deal to go with when the info has already been given only a page or two back. All this can probably frustrate other users a bit.

I check in with only a few threads these days, but this one has tended lately to be the same old thing every time, with no real news or anything of interest re: switching suppliers. Considering the lack of competition between suppliers out there at the mo, the thread should be relatively quiet, but that's far from the case...

Out of interest has people's total usage changed in the last year or so? Haven't looked myself but it's an exercise I intend doing in the next while. We are probably doing much the same things now as we did a year ago. Dinner still has to be cooked but the washing machine and dryer have been on more owing to a new arrival in late October and less travel/weekends at in-laws etc.

We took on a Ukrainian family, doubled as the garden room only has electric heating.

Last electricity bill was 4 figures. The next one due in is likely to be just below 1k.

Out of contract from today so thank god it's spring

My contract with Airtricity (33% off Gas and Electricity) is expiring at the end of the month. Wondering if I should sign up to the best (non-fixed rate) deal I can find now, or is there value in hanging tight on Airtricity out-of-contract rates for a month or two as it seems rates may be about to come down.

Our electricity use is very high (6,600 kwH in last 12 months) as we have an electric car.

Thanks, I'm on a standard 24hr meter, even though I know I should probably be on a day/night meter with almost 50% of my Electricity usage being the car, which charges overnight (also run washer, drier, dehumidifier and dishwasher which all can/could run overnight).

We are hoping to move house in the next few months as well, so don't think I will bother with changing the meter at this stage, i'll let the new owners make that decision.

Will shop around for the best rates now in this case.

I'm out of contract with EI shortly. Bonkers are recommending Electric Ireland - Dual ValueSaver which offers 8.5% off gas and the same off electricity.

Question: Is that the 8.5% for DD and paperless billing or is it in addition to this discount? Secondly, if it is for DD and paperless billing, do I loose this discount when I come out of contract?

I got a similar result and posted here and @zell12 helped me out by posting this

“You have to select 'No' to 'Only show tariffs available for sign up?' to show other options. Similar with Switcher.ie”

what we are seeing now with the electricity companies is they only want to deal direct with the client and not through the switching companies I think

How long is a piece of string? As has been reiterated on this thread many times, the best deal for one person may not be the best for another, depending on their usage.

So please be gentle, I haven't had to switch energy providers for a long time, and barely understand half of it, but here goes, I'm renting, there's a prepay power meter installed, I'm able to switch now

Prepay power meter installed

Urban D/N meter

One person household, at home most days though, no idea what avg kwh per year I would use, the only thing I really use at night is the immersion heater, have neighbours so can't use appliances at night. Heating is electric heaters.

Current rates with PPP:

Day unit: 0.46c

Night unit: 0.22

Stg Charge 1.34

PPP daily charge: 0.45

Looking at switcher.ie and bonkers, I'm seeing Flogas 1 year fixed rate and SSE Airtricitys 15% discount

Is the SSE Airtricity 15% discount already applied when I see the unit rates of 41.88(day) and 25.99(night)?

Are fixed rate plans a bad idea right now?

Also, with switching from Prepay, I dont want to have the meter removed. The meter was switched over a couple of weeks ago to a Smart meter, what bearing if any, does this have on switching? I was on ClassicPay with PPP, so not a smart plan as such. Is the process of going back to the usual meter outside the house easy?

Have only started looking and am bamboozled already, any help/info/ideas welcomed, thanks

Energia offered me 10% discount for renewal ( currently have 25%) starting the switch to SSE 15%

Had hoped Energia would come back and match to save me the admin. I've no interest in getting nest ECT