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Does the flogas community 24 hour plan pay FIT?

I see Pinergy have a good rate on buying electricity 25c + vat, looks like the best on the market ?

What happens if you get pv, while having a day/night meter, are you, forced to change to a smart meter, once the NC6 form is sent into ESB Networks ?

Do Flogas send a reminder when to submit a meter reading? From what I've read here about their systems being antiquated, I suspect not, so do people just submit a reading at regular intervals like the first of every month?

No, you can send it if you like otherwise they'll just send someone out or have it estimated.

No reminders, you can submit readings whenever you want and they issue a bill. If you don't submit readings they'll just go off the normal 2 months cycle from ESBN

I've a calendar reminder to submit readings at the start of the month, I find it handy because then it ties neatly into the data I'm tracking from the solar panels and Zappi

I don't know if there's an upper limit to the number of readings you can submit, I assume if you did a reading every day they'll probably just ignore you after a while

My smart meter sends them regular readings which is handy, I'm on a 24hr rate.

Thanks @graememk & @CoBo55 . Hadn’t noticed the smart meter thing.

I got back to flogas on Friday again trying to request my day/night meter. Got told I needed to contact ESB and request it from them, I called them out on that (it needs to come from the supplier) before they moved on and agreed to the request. When it came to the rates, I asked to switch over to the day/night rate of my current offer the "BWG" one.

They said they couldn't do that as it had expired and quoted the normal day/night rates, I then asked for the "community" offer, (basically the renamed BWG one) again they refused as I wasn't a member of Dublin City council and that link was "leaked" online. I asked for the reason of refusal in writing, which they declined to do. I requested a manager and was put on a 5 minute hold only to be told there was none available and "they'd get back to me". At this stage I abandoned the whole switch process.

Immediately after that call I rang the CRU to explain my case and basically asked is this allowed? and he said to send on the details via email, which I did.

15 minutes later I got a phone call back from flogas explaining they were agreeing to swap me over to a day/night meter and to the day/night rates of my current "BWG" offer instead of the "community" offer. (rates are identical so made no difference to me) Job Done.

Rang ESB this morning and they hadn't received the request, so rang flogas AGAIN this morning and they said the request was not 100% finished completing on their side and should be done by COB today. I'll be double checking again in the morning.

TLDR: Persist with getting your day/night

Its good to know you've gotten that order through its just a pity it's such a bother for something you are fully entitled to do. I need to chase them up again on this to try and get mine.

Out of interest, if you are on the 24hr community plan, are you entitled to request the day/night meter with the community rates?

Yea would like to know this also , if on the 24hr community plan , are you entitled to request day/night meter with the community rates ?

Anyone any idea ?

That's actually not too bad

If you were on a 16kVA connection you could pull in 64kWh in the EV rate

So worst case scenario you'd be using 1984kWh in one month

Some quick math gives:

(1000kWh * €0.1019/kWh) + (984kWh * €0.1172/kWh) = €217.23

€217.23/1984kWh = €0.1095/kWh = 10.95c/kWh

It seems to disappear every so often, either the offer expires or they get so many sign ups they stop taking new customers for a while