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

I did the whole thing of downloading HDF from ESB and putting it into Energy Pal. I also manually put in the Yuno Fixed rate D/N Urban into Energypal, it wasn't already there for some reason. Once you remove the free Sat/Sun type rates from consideration then Yuno comes up as the best option. Going to go for it I think but I've seen a lot of negative comments about Yuno reading back in this thread a few pages. The standing charge is higher than most others but is there something else I'm missing about them? Will just pay the 50euro break fee if electricity prices drop significantly next year. Also raging I didn't look into switching provider last week when the Black Friday offers were going 😥

I should've mentioned we're planning to get an EV next year so the 100kwh monthly cap on the free sat/sun kind of makes it a bit pointless as we would be probably over that cap after 2 Sundays of charging the car plus our usual usage. A lot of the EV plans have a very high peak rate so that's putting me off them and also why none of those plans are within the top 10 of suggested plans(Our peak rate usage is consistently high). I think ultimately we won't know the ideal plan until we've had the car for at least a year so that's why I was thinking just go for the lowest rate available for day and night and look at the data again in a year

So what's the story with government credit that I asked before? You get back anything unused when u switch to new provider?

Got my first bill in from flogas BWE offer posted here during summer. We are on smart rates (we activated accidentally while with SSE earlier this year).

Bill is down nearly 50% from this time last year, without any govt credit, delighted. Think it's a combination of being more careful when we run appliances plus better rates! We are fully electric with air to water heating. Winter bill (next 1-2 ) will be the real test. I nearly had a heart attack with the bill in Jan last year

When did FloGas drop their fixed rates? Just looking there now and it's 35.42c for day units and 17.16 for night.

Still cheaper for me to go with the BG black Friday deal where the rates were 37.05c and 16.55c with my usage.

Is there still a way to sign up to that BG deal?

got my final SSE Electricity bill after switching to the BGE deal, they did charge the break fee, the feckers.

No you don't need to be on a smart tariff. I don't see the point in doing this tbh. In my case I'm on a 24hr plan meaning I plug in the car whenever it needs charging, we just use machines etc whenever it's required obviously this file is going to reflect this usage, now if I moved to a smart plan say the energia EV plan it's only then that my usage habits would change. It's kind of a chicken and the egg situation 🥴

To avail of full discounts most suppliers require you to accept direct debit payment & paperless billing.

People can adapt their habits to a variable extent ... some very limited. Having an idea of what plan suits best your current habits is a very good starting point, even if of course you can then adapt to make it work better for you.

Government credit landed in my account

Have it as well. I'm with BG

Not on mine either, everyone on prepay electricity got theirs on the first day.

Don’t panic if it’s not there, this is a snippet from the email

The first credit of €150 will be applied before the end of December and the following instalments will be credited in January and March 2024. 

Interestingly, if the credit gets applied to an account after the bill is issued but before the payment due date, then no direct debit is necessary in theory, but the reality is that the direct debit will likely happen anyway to reflect the account status at the time of the original bill (i.e. no credit present).