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

This is the way

I like to pay a few quid a week to my provider and I’m always ahead of the bill but maybe that's just me

The government credit is covering the bones of my next three bills, it’s not life changing money to top it up by a few quid, my bill is about €170 bi monthly

it’s okay to not agree, we all do things differently

I'd also query how different providers are applying the credit to accounts at different times in some cases applying it to the account before a Direct Debit is due and then drawing down the full bill amount while they should really be applying the credit to the outstanding bill and reducing the DD accordingly.

Hi,

I know this may be off point but it seems the only place for my question....

My Electric l Smart Bill is Bill 2 months periods is ...15 Sep 2023 to 14 Nov 2023 ..... 944Kw

Account is Smart Electrical, free Sunday..

Below the breakdown is this ...

Average residential customer 671 Kw

Question ......

Is this normal ? Why am I so high ?

There are only 3 people in the house....

Any Ideas welcome....

Thanks

John

You'll need to provide a lot more details.

Electric car? Electric rads? WFH? How is your water heated? What age are the 3 people (i.e. 3 adults or 2 adults and a kid)?

You have a smart meter so why don't you login to your account on Electric Ireland ( they do free weekend day) & you will see breakdown of usage per day & hour.

According to others here it doesn't show as credit in the portal, it's applied when the bill is being generated. Like yourself I'm expecting a bill this week, it's going to be a tough one, the credit will be very welcome, even better if it's double bubble 😊

The account is closed for you. It still exists in their system. Call them up and ask for it. they'll send it via bank transfer.

You will probably have to request the refund after the final bill

energypal.ie is a great website for checking your actual usage.

I was just about to switch to the current SSE offer which bonkers etc were suggesting but energypal showed I was using €300 on Sundays between 9am and 5pm and I'd be better off on the Bord Gais free power Sunday tariff.

There is a similar government website in Australian where you just upload your smart meter data and it gives you the best plan based on your usage, used it a few times when living over there and it was painless.

Hi,

No Electric Car / No OFCH No electric rads / 3 Adults .. Mother . Father.. Son.../

Bed Semi / Kitchen extension.

Thanks.

John

Hi.

I have been monitoring the usage and this is Dec 09 to 25.

8 14218 15

9 14230 12

10 14248 18

11 14276 28

12 14292 16

13 14309 17

14 14328 19

15 14350 22

16 14363 13

17 14376 13

18 14402 26

19 14416 14

20 14436 20

21 14449 13

22 14461 12

23 14476 15

24 14488 12

25 14500 12

Your usage is high. While graememk is right in that averages are averages, you should be around the national average. Average house with 3 occupants is average.

Ongarite gives good advice in loging in and seeing exactly when your usage is spiking. You would expect to see either a very high baseline (which may indicate something is broken e.g. a fridge constantly running when it shouldn't) or high spikes indicating a specific device is causing the high usage.

You can also go to your library and rent an energy monitoring kit to help identify the issue.

The trick of turning off everything and the switchboard and slowly turning each one back on one by one shouldn't be too helpful as the smart meter will give you the data.

Of course, it's entirely possible nothing is wrong and you are just a high energy user but all the above will help you identify why.

Buy a monitor, Owl etc you'll soon see what's using the juice. I'd love to have only used 973 units in two months 😊