Best Electricity Plan for new EV Owners

Signed up to the community plan a month before my energia EV plan ends.

I've about 40% night usage based on current readings but that will change significantly as I charge my phev nightly over winter.

I saw during sign up that I can call them to postpone my supply date.

What are Energia offering when the plan expires

they just keep emailing me to discuss mi want to have a bit of research done first before making the call

What rates are you getting

Do you have to pay the €50 break fee by leaving a month early ? Might still be the best bet as nobody knows how long Flogas will have the community plan available.

Surely it's a day rate of 46.62c across all 3 plans?

Then whichever plan you choose, you get the associated benefit, eg. with the one you posted above, it's 6.92c during the 2am-5am window, and 46.62c all other times, as per image.

With the working from home (9am-5pm) option, it's 32.6c from 9am-5pm (46.62c*0.7, ie. 30% discount), 46.62c all other times

Family Time (6pm-10pm) is 27.9c from 6pm-10p (46.62c*0.6, ie. 40% discount), 46.62c all other times

If it was 80c or something, then that would have been the "Price all other times" on the image posted for the EV 2am-5am plan.

Yes, my misinterpretation,

its not a plan for my usage/setup, but might be for others, particularly worth investigating, for those with large PV setups.

I’ve a day/night meter

so far these are the rates I have found

Bord Gais : Day 46.64. Night 23.08

Electric Ireland: D 42.30 N 20.86

SSE D 41.88 N 25.00

Flogas D 41.33 N 20.03

all a huge jump from my current EV plan with Energia - who haven’t told me their new rates yet. So probably not great 🤣

if anyone has found a better deal ….

Registered my interest with them, will post here if I get an update.

Yeah it's supposed to be for teachers in community schools I think (certainly isn't obvious from the name) but nothing stops anyone from signing up

Unfortunately there's no online sign-up for the smart plan equivalent, so there's no way the plebs to sign up for that one

Someone posted a while back the d/n meters were out of stock, good to see they are coming back.

ESB networks have always been helpful, the obstacle to changing your meter, has always been the supplier, in many cases the customer agent does not have the knowledge, or, has incorrect knowledge , or, they are just actively discouraging customers, from changing their meter to d/n meter

These are common things, that have been told to customers(to others on here-and myself) requesting a meter switch to d/n meter

“You cannot switch to a d/n meter”

“There is a charge to switch meter”,which is incorrect, if it is your 1st time requesting a meter change

They accept the request, but do not put in the order with ESB Networks(once you they confirm they have requested the meter change, call esb networks the following day, to confirm they have the order)

I had the same experience last year, ESB Networks were very helpful and advised contacting the regulator if the supplier continued to deny my request. Once the request was received they arranged the meter change within the same week.

Literally just off the phone to flogas and got the same horror story about someones meter been activated as a MCC16 instead of a MCC02 during the switch. I'm calling shenanigans.

So I rang esbnetworks after and they said they are putting in whatever MCC is requested from the supplier.

Now to go back to flogas to actually confirm the request. They don't make it easy do they?

Let me know if you make any headway on that. I suspect they know they've made a mess of things with so many people signing up using the link and are trying to limit the damage.

12-9 now for “summer” and moves to 11-8 once the clocks change

I'd say it depends on the house, newer houses are probably cabled for 16kVA so maybe just an upgrade of the fuse (80A to 100A I think)

Older house might need new wiring so could be expensive

You'd also need to upgrade the main fuse in the CU to get the benefit. Alternatively if you have a sub board for EV chargers beside the meter box then you could just upgrade that to get a bit extra headroom for the EV charger while the house is consuming a lot