Best Electricity Plan for new EV Owners

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has any energia customer managed to get the 37% discount on renewal without going through the whole switching charade?
just ran energy pal figures and the plan we are on is the best (which is unsurprising as I’m brilliant. 🤣)

for goodness’ sake. What a waste of everyone’s time.

Probably a dumb question but by initiating you mean you would sign up with another provider rather than tell them you are cancelling?

Does it? I might try that next year with BG I'm very happy with the EV plan I'm on since last month. In saying that I'll be checking the app like a hawk around black Friday, they gave great deals last year. You need to be quick as they're very time limited.

I've discovered something quite worrying with my smart meter plan. I'm with BG on their EV plan, I signed up on the 15th of July. All had been going well viewing my data on their site etc until today. Looking at yesterday's usage (24th) it shows high usage between 2 and 5 as though I had plugged the car in, but I didn't as it didn't need to be charged. Roll back to last Saturday (17th) and both usage graphs are practically identical, I did charge the car that night but definitely not last night as can be seen from my Tronity app charging history. Who do I contact about this? Esbn? BG? Or both? My meter shows A+ on the screen which I'm assuming is an indicator of good signal communication strength. I've attached 3 screenshots.

Never thought of checking the esbn site I'll do that on the laptop it's easier. Is isn't the immersion as it's gone belly up there's a wire broken that connects both elements and I have it isolated at the CU. There was nothing running as I arrived home from work just after 1am and everyone was in bed, just the usual stuff fridge etc ticking over.

This is what's showing on the esbn site. It looks like BG are at fault here. Will be interesting to see what the response is.

Here's the previous Saturday.

Quick update, after being on the esbn site I checked the BG site and lo and behold it's been changed. I'll be keeping a closer eye on BG in relation to what the meter actually sends to esbn.

You can always do what I do and take the smart day/night meter without going to a smart plan.

You can see your usage on the ESBN site but don't need to go to a smart plan

While it wouldn't put me off it's worrying that it can happen at all especially when esbn show the correct data usage. BG showed the correct usage pattern last night but it's showing the incorrect usage this morning, it certainly wouldn't inspire confidence in them.

So I was on a regular Day/Night meter which automatically got replaced with a Smart Day/Night one

As long as I stay on non smart Day/Night plans then it's fine. I still get metered export and can access my usage via the ESBN portal

If you're on a smart plan then I don't think you can move to a smart D/N meter. However if you're still on a 24 hour plan then I think you can still switch over, however it will probably involve a meter swap, which is probably what ESBN is charging for

I was under the impression you're first move was free in such a circumstance, who is quoting the 300e the supplier or esb themselves? I'd ring esb themselves and chat to them about the charge.

I did indeed ring ESB and they said there is no cost! So someone telling porkies

what rates, if I may ask?

Yes was wondering what percentage they offered as well with that amount of credit?

Yuno require you to get a smart meter it's in their terms and conditions, if you go with them they'll request one on your behalf. Before the smart meter is installed they'll screw you with estimated bills. There are loads of providers out there that are cheaper than what you're paying now.

Yep, avoid Yuno like Covid.

I've just recently got a Model 3 and wondering about the best tarrif for my situation. Firstly I'm on the Energia Smart Data Dual since April - 15.91c Night, 29.72 Day and 31.15 Peak. Solar installed in June - 3.8kWp with 5kWh battery. I'm very impressed with the solar and it's doing very well compared to larger systems according to my installer.

I do about 350km a week so I'm charging every 6/7 days. Don't want to drop below 20% charge to keep Sentry mode available - so 1 charge 20% to 100% in about 7 to 8 hours overnight. This costs me about €8.50. I am also charging the house battery at 3am.

I've done the maths on changing to the Energia EV tariff 2am - 6am @ 7.54c and between the car and battery I would be saving almost €400 per annum. Obviously there is the higher rate of 33.86c the rest of the time. Am I wasting my time trying to work this out? Should I give it a year and drop my esb network usage into a comparison tool next May and try to see what the best deal is at that stage?

If I was to switch to the EV tariff what is the best way to charge the car? 60% to 100% twice a week (ish) or 20 to 60, 45 to 80, 60 to 100 by plugging in every 2 days or so?

Trying to maximise savings but don't want to get swallowed up into the minutiae of it all. Making great savings as it is compared to a few months ago!

Yeah, I was thinking of doing that, easy to compare HDF file then with price plans 👍️

What is? Jaysus you're incredibly lazy if it's too difficult to setup an account with esbn, download a tiny file and then upload it to energypal to see who's the cheapest provider for you, you don't even need to create an account with energypal.