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

Got my letter today confirming my electricity account number and DD details. Also got my closure bill from EI who for the first time ever decided to estimate my bill (even though I have a smart meter). They have overcharged me by circa €80 for the month that it covers. Of course I assumed the meter reading i gave Flogas would be used by them when they initiated the switch of electricity. Now that my account is closed i cant submit a reading to them online so i guess i have a painful call ahead of me in an attempt to get a refund. Luckilly i have a photo taken of the meter the day i signed up for Flogas and an energy monitor to track what i used between the signup date and the date the EI are billing me for.

Signed up to the BWG 24 hour meter offer for electricity at 29.99 cent/kWh. Got an email today with my new account details. Was with BG and had a smart meter installed at start of the year but wasn't activated. Will I have to submit meter readings for flogas? After smart meter was installed BG were able to take actual reads for my bills. There's a video link in email from flogas as to how to submit readings. Is this only for households without smart meters?

Thanks

How long did it take you to receive you account number? applied last friday and didn't get anything apart from the initial generic email.

https://www.flogasfeelgoods.com/

check it out.

going by the comments on this thread people seem to have no patience these days, sign up for a deal and looking for instant confirmation and contracts by post - these things take time to process - the internet has killed off our patience lol

but they have the deal they just dont seem to trust the deal

My contract with energia is up this month, the best new deal I can find is flogas at 39.85 day rate / 19.31 night rate, which is a good bit more then I'm currently paying with energia ( .28 day and .13 night) . My rate with energia goes up on the 25th (.47 /.22) should I move to flogas now or waiting and hope there will be better deals in a few weeks / months. Tbh don't know how I'll survive next winter did not think my rates would be going up so much

Standing charge is €396.89 with flogas vs 269.40 new rate with energia. I think that would still make flogas cheaper for the year , but not sure how many units I use per year

Where are you getting the Flogas standarding charge from?

you need to get your usage to make a proper price comparison in my opinion

What's confusing about it? The second sentence literally says it does not apply to fixed rates

If you switch providers with credit on your account you contact them after the final bill and they will post a cheque or send the credit to your registered bank account

EI run a tighter ship than some of the other providers it seems. They even provide for clawing back welcome credit if you leave within the 12 months while the likes of Airtricity will only bill you for the breakage fee usually €50. The likes of utilities have been holding onto things like over payments for years while rightly they should be refunded if requested be the customer. I'm not sure in your case promotional credit is something they are legally obliged to refund.

I checked and Electric ireland and flogas are the best currently for night meter plan ! Shame no one offering proper discounts or credits !

Do we expect price decreases going forward or rise ? If they will rise further may stick with flogas as its fixed

We've just moved from an apartment with electricity only to a house with gas also. We have 30% discount with EI so we'll move that over today.

I can only base our habits on that of living in an apartment but during the cold months probably 2-3 hours an evening, warmer months the heating would rarely be used at all.

I'm wondering what's the best gas only deal?