Best Electricity Plan for new EV Owners

You can run whatever you like in the 4 hour window, remember there's a 500Kw per month cap on the 8c rate, in saying that if you exceed it you're only charged the higher price on what's over the cap and it isn't that much extra. If that day rate dropped a teeny bit more I'd go for it myself. As it is it's just a bit cheaper for me to stay on the Flogas 30c rate. Be nice to be running the car for 8c a unit though 😊

I was with energia for years, great company to deal with in fairness, hopefully they'll give you a good offer when your contract ends next year. Let us know how is goes for you.

I have a Tesla M3 on order so I rang SSE yesterday to see about getting a smart meter plan. I won’t get the car until Jan/Feb so I didn’t change my plan. I got a discount to 34c kw/hr though which is good. I was also told that if I activated my smart meter then I’d be automatically changed to a smart plan.

My plan was to activate the smart meter and see when I was using electricity and then make a call on which plan was best. When I look at the various plans around I wonder does it make sense to just stay on a low overall kw/hr plan.

I think that most of the time I’ll only be charging my car for a few hours every night anyway.

What do people make of the Home Dual+ Weekender from electric Ireland with free electricity on a Saturday or Sunday. I charge once for free at work during week and once at home at weekend.

Think it’s 100kwh free per month, not great considering the unit prices

Nope, there's no stated limit.

They have a vague "acceptable use" statement in the T&Cs, with no actual numerical specification of what is acceptable. I've been doing 200KWh+ a month for free for several months now.

Just because you want the RM108 smart meter, doesent mean you will actually get one.

“Before”, I renewed with Energia, i requested the RM108 smart meter, my plan was to go onto their Smart Drive rate which has 4 hours per night on about 8cent, but was told it could take months, i pushed hard to get them to change the meter on email and by phone, but got nowhere. Pinergy have a smart night rate, which is only 5cent inc vat, albeit for just 3 hours per night.

I renewed with Energia, day/night, got the 20% retention discount + €50, and my new plan is to get solar PV installed in a few weeks. Current rates inc vat are Day 36.10, Night 17.32.

Once i get the NC6 form off, i will get deemed export until the meter is changed. Even if you export zero units, you still get deemed export, which is a calculation based on your PV production capacity. I plan on exporting zero during this period.

https://www.energia.ie/cosy-homes/energia-and-the-microgeneration-scheme

Eventually, ESBN will swap the meter to RM108, (but that date is unclear), as i am on a non smart day/night plan, at which point, the deemed export will cease, and i’l get paid for actual export.

In your case, 12c night rate is pretty good, and no cheaper night rate is available, on a non smart meter plan, so i’d be keeping that until Feb, but do the maths on your day/night split, as that day rate is high, but in the meantime. try and get the RM108 installed before renewal date, but as i said, i had zero luck getting RM108 meter installed.

Maybe others had more success, i’d certainly be interested in how exactly, they got the RM108 meter installed.

Whats the night rate on this ?

It may have not suited you but it's certainly not useless! We have it and are very happy. We are not high mileage so two nights charging has the car filled from around 30%. It's proving extremely useful to us and is only costing just over 4 euro for those two charges. The equivalent price for the same two charges on the smart data would be over 10 euro. Again depends on the mileage you need.

Yes but even for my use case 3 hours just doesn't cut it.

This is what I don't get these special "EV Plans" of 4 hours. If you're going to call something an EV plan then surely it has to be as long as most EV's take to charge.

Don't think there's any car that will fully change from 10% in 4 hours?

For anyone commuting 5 days a week to work at motorway speeds, you won’t travel too far if dependent on that 4hr cheap rate window. If you can manage with just 28kWh per day, you probably don’t really need a 77kWh EV.

Switched from BG plan to energia plan at start of the month. Data from esbnetworks for the smart meter is a mess - only data for 1st & 2nd and only between 8:00 and 6pm. Very strange and the energia site has me using 4 different rates, same as per BG plan.

Anyone seen this before,will it all sort out eventually ?