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

A couple of little things about Dual Fuel with Flogas… They treat it as two separate accounts and you will have two Direct Debits, one for Gas and one for Electricity. And their billing portal is not easy to use/intuitive. The data is all there, but you have to work it out a little. Also, I don't know if it will happen again over the coming winter, but they didn't give me the Govt. €150 credits, they still charged me the same amount each month, but the Credit went against my Balance (I was using their Budget plan).

Switched to Board Gais and Electric Ireland this week, do they credit your account with the switching cash back or send to your bank? I think they were 50 & 120

Today I decide to brake contract with Energia and went with EI with smart meter plan(activated)

0.2508€ 24h plan +100€ bonus(that will cover 50€ penalty)

I found out energypal.ie gives much better view what is the best plan and with my own calculation and how much im using I would save around 350€ in next 12months.

Also EI rate is variable .I didnt want go fix rate route with Sse.

I was on time of use plan until march and in march i changed midterm to fix 24h plan but was slightly worse than new customer.At that time Energia was the cheapest.

The difficulty with a smart tariff is that once you go smart, you cannot go back. You're smart for the rest of your meters life. While you might save €100 this year, you could easily be out of pocket next year. If the tariff is ToU, that would annoy me.

Saying that, for €100, its probably worth the switch.

Day usage of 58%
Peak usage of 10%
Night usage of 32%

I work from home a fair bit, I couldn’t believe night usage was so much, must be air to water heating doing its thing.

25.08 cent if you include the 30% discount

Energia have a 23.99c rate and BGE have 24.56c (both standard tariffs and variable rate). Is there a particular reason why you'd go for EI's 25.08c rate?

Both from bonkers.ie

their standard rate could increase but thought/hoped electricity prices might go down over the next year

Ah yeah, if prices are going to change, its more than likely downwards.

Seems like you've done your research and should pull the trigger with the caveat you can't switch back to a standard plan and must be smart from here on out.

Out of interest, the fact it is a smart plan albeit with one daily standard (potentially variable) rate how would one be smarter in future apart from shopping around?
I presume no smart plan will give a guaranteed 1 year fixed rate?

As this is first year in house, I wonder are we better off having a second year of data before jumping on a Smart Plan.

Shopping around is the smartest thing to do every year.

If you switch to a time of use plan, it’s all about changing your energy usage to night and off peak.

thank you bord gais ev smart electricity was suggested to me but to be honest whatever they cut in the rate they take back in the high standing charge in my opinion, also don’t understand why their standing charge changes depending on the plan, not the case with airtricity or yuno

I noticed Bord Gais are now doing a limited time 33% discount on their rates for new customers. Anyone know of a workaround for existing customers to get that rate, when I joined back in Feb it was a 22% discount.

If you wanna pay the €50 breakage fee per fuel type.

If you don’t. Wait 6 weeks

Environmentalists will tell you to run as many appliances at night to avail of cheaper and greener electricity.

The fire brigade will tell you not to do this. Your washing machine, your dryer, your dishwasher etc should never be run when you're asleep. Aside from an electric car, there's very little most people can do to shift their energy profile to during the night safely. The other big energy users e.g. showers, are typically used off peak but during the day. Nobody is going to go to bed late/get up early to have a shower.