Home Electric+ 24hour
Make your usage clearer, with our most popular smart meter plan
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Same cost as your current standard plan
Our Home Electric+ 24hour smart meter plan offers the same competitive rates and standing charges as the standard plan you're on, but with the extra addition of advanced personalised electricity insights. Here's the breakdown:
| Current Standard Plan | Home Electric+ 24hour Plan |
|---|---|
| Unit price: 35.83 cent | Unit price: 35.83 cent |
| Standing Charge Urban: €250.77 | Standing Charge Urban: €250.77 |
| Standing Charge Rural: €314.98 | Standing Charge Rural: €314.98 |
Above rates are the standard prices as of 1st March 2024, including VAT and without any discounts applied. Terms and Conditions apply.
Unlock your electricity insights with Home Electric+ 24hour
Home Electric+ 24hour
All smart meter plans come with advanced personalised electricity insights like:
- Personalised electricity insights daily, monthly and yearly, by cost and kilowatt (kWh)
- Appliance itemisation
- Monthly bill prediction
- Personalised hints & tips
- Similar homes comparison
And that's not all...
Every 12 months, we'll review your electricity usage patterns to ensure you are on the optimal smart meter plan.
You will be able to uncover potential savings by viewing a comparison of your existing plan with other smart meter plans and make a seamless transition to a more cost-effective option.
How to upgrade to a smart meter plan
Step 1: Log In
Create online account / Log in using your registered email and password.
Step 2: Upgrade
Click on the 'upgrade to a smart meter plan' banner, which you’ll see at the top of your 'my accounts' page.
Step 3: Complete
Complete the 5-step activation by selecting a Home Electric+ plan, give consent to share your electricity data with us. This is needed to generate your personalised electricity insights.
Existing customers
Upgrade* to a Home Electric+ smart meter plan today via your online account
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Learn more about our time-of-use (TOU) plans
- Home Electric+ Night Boost - Enjoy lower nightly rates. Perfect for homes with Electric Vehicles (EVs) and heat pumps.
- Home Electric+ Weekender - Ideal for homes that use a lot of electricity on weekends.
- Home Electric+ Standard Smart Tariff (SST) - Ideal if you are looking to create good energy habits and save on carbon emissions.
Frequently Asked Questions
Yes, you need to have a smart meter installed to sign up for a smart meter plan.
For existing customers, you can sign up through your online account.
For new customers, you can sign up on our smart tariff page.
Smart meter customers need an online account to access your insights which are only accessible through the online insights tool. Signing up is easy.
Click here to create an online account today. You’ll need your account number and last 6 digits of your MPRN number (right-hand side of your bill).
Your smart meter will feed your usage data to our insights tool. We require your consent to share your half hourly data with us, in order for us to provide you with the most relevant and up-to-date insights.
A time-of-use price plan charges different prices for electricity usage depending on the time of day. Typically, these price plans charge cheaper rates when electricity demand is at its lowest (e.g. night-time 11pm – 8am) and higher rates at peak times (e.g. weekdays 5-7pm) when demand is at its highest.
For example, customers can choose to use cheaper, greener electricity at night when demand is lower. If you are unable to change when you use electricity, time-of-use may not suit you.
Yes, you will need a smart meter to avail of a time-of-use plan.
You should only choose a time-of-use plan if you can change your behaviour to make to most of a time-of-use plan. For example, if you can move all your laundry to a Saturday when you get free electricity from 8 am to 11pm then Home Electric + weekender could save you money. If you are unable to change when you use electricity, TOU may not suit you.
If you have signed up to an Electric Ireland Home Electric+ price plan, you will start to receive personalised electricity insights to help lower your bills and carbon footprint.
2-3 days after signing up to a Home Electric+ plan (post cooling off period), you should see your electricity usage history within your Electric Ireland online account.
4 months after signing up to a Home Electric+ plan, you should see the full range of electricity charts within your online account. This includes usage history, appliance itemisation, similar homes comparison, projected usage and electricity tips.
You’ll also receive regular emails to help you stay on track with your energy charges.
When you sign up to a Home Electric+ product and agree to share your half hourly data your smart meter will automatically store 48 reads per day, due to the high volume of reads each individual read cannot be shown on your bill and because of this ESB Networks will only send your energy provider an amalgamated consumption data read, which is then reflected on your bill.
Consumption data is the usage data collected by your smart meter (measured in KWh) which enables more accurate energy reading and bills. Moving from a standard meter to a Home Electric+ product enables this information to become available to you. Your electricity flow is measured in half hourly intervals and is then sent to your energy provider, essentially removing the need for regular standard manual meter reads.
As well as your consumption data being visible on your bill, you can also download your full consumption data (up to a maximum of 2 years) via your online account. To do this just log in and select ‘view your account’, then select the ‘Details’ tab on the home page, scroll down and select ‘Download your smart data’. This can be downloaded in a software friendly format including free options such as: online excel, google sheets, or if a desktop app is required, try open office for example.
Yes, our Home Electric+ smart meter plans give you advanced energy usage insights including appliance itemisation, to show you the where and when your using the most electricity, through understanding this it can help you reduce your usage. To date we have seen that customers on a Home Electric+24hr plan who switch from an equivalent 24hour standard plan, reduced their electricity consumption by up to 12% year on year.
12% saving based on comparable data set of 11K customers that had 12 months consumption (pre smart meter 24hour plan) and with 24hour smart meter plan, over a 2 year comparison period from 2021 to 2022. Customers in year 1 had an average electricity consumption of 4,635 kWh which reduced to average of 4,065 kWh in year 2, which equates to a 12.3% reduction in electricity year-on-year.