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

Those rates with Yuno are pretty awful and not the competition we need. And a standing charge of 364 a year is some joke, before all this stuff kicked off my standing charge used to be the cheapest in the market with Glowpower at 127 a year. Electricity companies have been gouging us on standing charges which are supposed to be a fixed cost yet they have been going up and up and up. Whats worse is the so called Energy Regulator came out earlier this year and said they have no power to regulate standing charges. It just farcical to have a regulator who cannot actually regulate. Instead of the govt throwing taxpayers money back at us why dont they just regulate the market properly like other EU countries do. Its infuriating.

I note from an article in the Independent newspaper that:

a. A smart meter is not required for sign-up but if you don't have a smart meter they will request ESBN to install one.

b. The bills are issued at the beginning of the month and is based on predicted usage for the month based on usage history. Predictive billing is not something I would want to get involved with.

I wonder what the hell the regulate myself as all they appear to be is a rubber stamp service for electricity companies to continue on jacking up prices. They are only there because EU legisilation says they have to be there but they are entirely a toothless regulator. Its the exact same with Comreg, for years they have been letting Eir get away with charging dead people bills and they wont close the account unless the dead person rings them up to do so; 'computer says no'. It has caused chaos for griveing families but the practice continues on to this day and Conor Pope writes his umpteenth article on it and nothing ever changes. Right across the board Irish regulators are basically useless and we all end up paying much higher prices for this incompetence.

Let us know how it goes. I'm in the same boat. Presumably we'd have the 14 day grace period to cancel if the rates aren't BWG rates.

Sign up online, if it goes through it goes through. Don't phone to try to sign up.

Also the rates are fixed for the 12 months. So if (big if) the general rates fall and other companies reduce rates, flogas won't.

I had the exact same conservation earlier. I told her the offer was available again and she didn't really pursue the matter other than to offer me a 20% discount. I can't remember the Energia day rate with the 20% discount but the night rate was 20c, a long ways from the Flogas 14.5 and even longer away from the 8.5c on Energia's EV rate from last year.

Edit: she also told me I'd be hit with the €50 exit fee as I'm going a few weeks early 😯

Yeah, they'll hit you with 50eur even if you leave contract 1 day early. I was lucky that they processed my switch on the 18th (I applied on the 15th with contract ending on the 17th) but I was prepared to take a hit either way.

Thanks Odyssey,

Just signed.

Big relief to go from 48cent to 30cent!!!!

hi does anyone how to check meter reading, need to enter the reading on flogas signup page

Hey folks, should I wait until OCT for switch, considering prices might be reviewed?

And what is difference between CP and BWG, looking only for electricity without smart meter

gotcha thanks

Not the best by far. I'm currently with BG until end of Sept with 40% discount - 0.2899