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

I'm going to take a wild guess and say BG have yearly electricity hedges that expire at the end of August and yearly gas hedges that expired somewhere in the middle of August. It's interesting that they aren't offering everyone the same discounts. It looks like electricity will go all the way to 44% if you wait?

I took the plunge and signed up my mum’s BG account. Continuing on the 33% discount for a further 12 months. 24hr rural rate 32.something. Dad disabled and mum has dementia so I just wanted to tick it off the list of things that need doing.

My own OBS contract expires late October so my account isn’t showing any offers yet.

Good to see things going in the right direction in terms of prices coming down. However 33c for a unit of electricity which is what BG have offered me is still ridiculously high compared to circa 16c I was paying in 2020. If the Gov. repeat their €600 credit in the upcoming budget I'll be happy but I fear they may try and taper it back to €400/€500.

My contract was up today. They were offering me a 10% discount to renew last week by email , and even 3 days ago on the site it was still only 10%. I logged in today to submit my final reading and to switch to another provider and I was shocked to see them offering me the 39% discount again which I gladly accepted. It must be right up at the final days of your contract they offer the bigger discount.

Thats the whole point of competition. If prices are stabilising or falling, then it offers the opportunity for new players to enter the market - just as as we saw smaller players leave the market when prices were rising quickly.

No. The new discounts have only been offered in the last 24 hours. Im 4 weeks out and received 39% discount on renewal. Im pushing for 44% as other have been offered.

The fookers only offered me 14%,!!!,what is your plan Phil?

No i’m with energia myself, contract up 2moro. Interesting what's happening at B G though?

I am on duel fuel standard rates and BG offered me 38% off gas and 17% off electricity. My contract is up in a few weeks and I currently get 33% off both. Should I wait or take that offer?

Contacted BG to see if they could offer anything better than 15% dual fuel discount on smart plans but no budging. Contract ended last week

Doing the calculations, with SSE I paid 1375 over the past year in electricity and gas combined.

They sent me a link to their renewal rates and it says the estimated annual total for me is 3750. So they doubled their rates or what?

Not sure what to do now

It is 47.54c Day and 23.53c with a 39% discount so works out at 28.99c Day and 14.35c Night.

Works out better than the new customer 36.56c Day and 17.72c Night I was just about to sign up to with FloGas.

I am Bord Gais dual fuel. (24 hour meter). I checked the rates via the out of contract email which had a link to their 'online price plan page'. Logged in to my account and they offered me 44% off electricity & gas. So I took the offer this morning. I was out of contract in early September.

Switch to any other provider and they'll likely ring you offering 20%. That's what they did with me.

That's based on 4200kWh Electric and 11000 kwh Gas. So your usage will very likely be different. Work it out from your bills and go from there.

this link is dead, is there another one or have we missed the boat : https://www.flogas.ie/flogas-community-plan-electricity-fixed-1-yr.htm ?