Best Electricity Plan for new EV Owners

They were offering an online renewal deal 23.44c €257 standing charge I moved from the plan you're on now to it without penalty. I think it was in this thread. I'm following so many threads it's hard to keep track. Scroll up to Bannerman's post and copy his link. One caveat, it isn't fixed for a year, it's until 31/03/25. Maybe they'll have something better by then, who knows?

Flogas certa offer, 24c day, 12c night. Including vat.

It's a day/night plan, you need a day/night meter.

Ah here, the other 20 hours are blatant gouging at 34c per unit and the EV rate is more expensive than BG. The rate is higher than the BG peak rate!!

If you stop the sign up process after entering your email address you might get the extra 3% offer after a few days which will give you these rates.

anyone managed to get these prices as an existing BGE customer? Currently on a 24H plan but car charger is being installed this week so will switch to the EV plan.

I couldn't tell you that but I was with BG before moving to Flogas and I didn't find the good with retention offers. Give them a ring and see what they say.

€350 a month 😯. Holey moley that's big money for this time of year. My last bill for 2 months from Flogas was €419, the way I'm going my 2 months bill with BG will be €348. I really like that I can see my spending from day to day.

No, nothing to beat that if you need to fully charge a big battery EV overnight s few times a week.

i’l export about approx 5,500 units this year, BG export rate is 18.50 cent, Energia is 24 cent, thats a €300 euro difference annually, so while BG smart EV rates with 33% discount are not bad, they are not great overall, for higher PV exporters, with batteries, allthough they may suit some setups.

Energia EV smart plan is also cheaper for standing charge by almost €90 inc vat. so thats a total of a €390 difference annuall.

even using 6500 night units on BG versus Energia, is only circa 1.60 cent difference or €104 difference annually. Even if Energia were to reduce their export rate by 4 cent to 20 cent, its still a better plan for me and has a more flexible 4 hours cheap rate window, versus 3 hours.

Will also check Pinergy Cooline which is 5.45 cent inc vat at night for 3 hours, has a 25 cent export rate, €283 annual standing charge inc vat, , and has €100 credit on signup.

I did my own spreadsheet as we've only had solar since March and just got the EV, so energypal's estimates would have been based on past patterns that were completely different.

Even allowing for that my spreadsheet suggested Energia would be slightly cheaper due the lower standing charge and higher FIT, but that doesn't account for any load shifting or change of usage patterns to take advantage of BGE's cheap night and EV rates and the difference was less than €70 over a year. As I'm an existing BGE customer and in contract, I'd have to pay €50 to break it so I went with BGE and will try to maximise usage of the cheap rates.

Unfortunately I couldn't see any way to get the 33% rate as I'm a) an existing customer and b) dual-fuel and that rate is electric only. Existing customer rate is 24% which is the same discount I was already on.

Since I went full EV last year I had it scheduled to charge at 11pm which helped keep energypal more accurate. There's very little to be saved moving a dishwasher or washing machine into the 2-5 slot, they can be quite annoying running at that time, compared to an EV they use very little. Keeping out of the peak and charging the car between 2-5 has made a big difference already to my usage. When I pay the final bill with Flogas and get fully settled with BG I think I'll save around 30- 40 every 2 months.

I was the same looking at my energy pal. I'm on a 24 hour rate so I plug the car in at any time. But with the BG EV rate I'll move those KWs to that late slot. Once solar is in I'll also try top up the battery then too and use that through the early morning.

i am fully aware, we are a 4 person household, all working, so €1600 annual exemption per annum with 4 names on the bill, so its not a concern for me, and the context is export rates will definitely fall, so budgeting for around 20 cent per unit exported, in the medium term, going forward.

I would also expect the exemption to continue beyond 2025, due to the fact it is government and EU policy to encourage PV generation, and the amounts involved are also relatively small.

20 cents incl. Vat