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

any idea how one can avail this offer? I too need to switch

Yes thanks have checked rates, standing charges ect. SSE coming in cheaper.

The standard rates they have published now I guess will change throughout the year anyhow.

How did you get those rates?

Airtricity were quoting me 43.41c per kWh best price to stay with them after coming off 33% discount last year. Electric Ireland 40.89c per kWh. Flogas 37.99c per kWh fixed for 12 months, if price on the market falls can leave them for 50e break fee in the first 12 months so changed to them

Nearly same boat, still with them and waiting for itemization.

Sent them an email a while back and received a response recently stating that I should seem itemized on 14/04.

This will be 3 and a half months since going with the dumbest smart tariff.

Assuming it will happen of course

How is the carbon tax added to bills, was it part of the pso levy or is it factored into the unit price.

Isn't it due to increase on May 1st, If it's included in the pso levy will they they try add it onto the unit price this time or just stay they same or what's the craic.

probably a minor increase that wouldn't be noticeable anyway , just curious.

My gas is due to expire tomorrow, would people recommend holding out a month or two based on it coming into the Summer, last bill was 700 euro with EI, that was with 14% discount.

Thanks, I was onto EI, was about to sign up again for 12 months, with 100 euro cashback but if I cancelled I would have to pay this back as well as 50 euro exit fee, might need to think about this a bit more. Flogas look like cheapest rate at the minute 11.77 a unit compared with EI 13.86

Use the comparison companies to get a price and contact the energy provider yourself to switch

I'm shopping around from Energia dual fuel myself. I have taken my last years usage for gas and electric as a guide to the next 12 months, got discounted unit rates from all of them and added these to the gas and electric yearly standing charge and Flogas come out cheapest (€4585 per year), this is fixed so a bit of a risk but you can always change again for €100. The best of the rest for me was SSE at €4650, EI at €4860, Energia €4990, BG €5015. My Energia contract was up by a few months (I should've copped this but of course they didn't bother to tell me!) but they will back date a new contract by 3 months giving me approx €100 credit. Still makes them €200 dearer overall. Think i may go to SSE but didn't find them great when last with them (approx 5 years ago)

Hi all

I'm with electric ireland for 10 months now. I recently got pv so I switched to their smart meter plan monthly but I haven't received a bill since January. in my online account I have the 200 euro credit still there.

Anybody have this nice problem?

I just contacted them today re a similar issue. Was expecting a bill in March and it didn't show up. Keen to avoid bills mounting up, not that it makes much difference when you pay it. Would prefer a smaller bill more often rather than one big lump some though.

They said the bill didn't issue due to a "systems error". They've sent a request to billing for my bill to issue.

On the Bord Gais dual fuel plan with a 39% discount since last September...

Current rates are:

Gas - 0.134

Electricity (smart) Day 46.74/Night 34.34/Peak 57.09

I tried a Bonkers search but it's not really turning anything up - would you think it's worth switching now things are coming down?

We've solar panels that heat the water so the gas should cost a lot less for the next 6 months. Have used 4752kWh in last 10 months. Electricity we used 339kWh from Jan 5-Mar 5.

Cheers!

Yes but how long is the question ?

Flogas are offering me the exact same off-book fixed rate deal as you got offered.

On one hand, everyone expects rates to go down, so now does not seem like a good time to fix.

On the other hand, these off-book Flogas rates are significantly below current market rates. A big drop in prices would need to occur + providers passing on any future drop in prices to existing customers to make it worthwhile to go elsewhere.

I think I will sign up next week.