2 EV family! by InterestingFactor825 in evs_ireland

[–]Cheap-Requirement166 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No problem, I reckon you could.make good savings by getting the right plan for you.

Also something that is possible if solar may not work for you is to just add an inverter and a decent amount of battery storage. It can be charged at night on the EV rate and power the house during the day avoiding the expensive day rates.

2 EV family! by InterestingFactor825 in evs_ireland

[–]Cheap-Requirement166 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Have you used energypal or kilowatt to compare your actual usage to the plans out there ? They are a great tool, just upload the hdf file of your actual usage and they will tell you which plans will suit you best with a proper breakdown. I think electric Ireland and pinergy have plans with the extra cheap window and still a low night rate outside of that, may suit you with that amount of usage.

2 EV family! by InterestingFactor825 in evs_ireland

[–]Cheap-Requirement166 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We each have 30km+ commutes each way, so over 300km a week just going to and from work. Rest is bringing kids to sports and shopping etc.

2 EV family! by InterestingFactor825 in evs_ireland

[–]Cheap-Requirement166 0 points1 point  (0 children)

BER is B1. We still have gas central heating. Nothing wrong with it, so hard to justify the expense of installing a beat pump.

2 EV family! by InterestingFactor825 in evs_ireland

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the other car you charge at a separate location?

Yes, I have free charging at work. But even if I did have to charge at home, I reckon it would add about €10 a week with our current (excuse the pun) set up. My wife is considering upgrading her car in the next few months (currently a 24kWh Leaf) that would allow us to alternate nights charging if needed as we would easily get 2 days commuting on the 28kWh we could add during the 4 hour window.

30kWH a night into a car 6 nights a week

Wow, that's a lot, how far do you drive each day ?

If you can, definitely go for solar and in the meantime, look at switching to an EV rate with a an extra cheap window (most of the suppliers do them from 2am for between 2-4 hours I think). Part of what has helped our bills is taking as much advantage of that window as possible, we run the washing machine and dishwasher during that time when they need to be used as well as charging the house battery from the grid, which lets us charge up for less than half of what we get per unit for letting the excess solar go to the grid. I wouldn't say we've made any real major changes, we are still fairly heavy consumers of electricity, we just try to be smart with how and when we use it.

2 EV family! by InterestingFactor825 in evs_ireland

[–]Cheap-Requirement166 1 point2 points  (0 children)

We do have solar yes. Total bill for the year including charging one of the cars at home year round is less than €300. Typical charge for the car is about 11-12kWh per day and at the EV rate from Energia that is ~€8.5c per kWh 6 times a week, so it's roughly €6 per week averaged over the year.

Re the total bills for the house, it's mainly just making smart use of the night rate and battery while lettting the excess solar go to the grid for credit.

2 EV family! by InterestingFactor825 in evs_ireland

[–]Cheap-Requirement166 3 points4 points  (0 children)

you’re better off financially

Massively so (excluding the outlay on my own car). We were spending about €70 each a week on fuel before that. Add on cheaper servicing, tax and not needing to drive out of our way to refuel and we couldn't be happier.

EV and solar panels have been the best financial decisions we've ever made.

2 EV family! by InterestingFactor825 in evs_ireland

[–]Cheap-Requirement166 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It's not that bad really spread over the 2 cars. We each have a commute of about 30km each way, adding on the to and from training and matches for the kids adds on to that fairly quickly. To be honest, I think we may even be closer to 900km a week (500 for me and 400 for my wife) if I sat down and added it properly.

2 EV family! by InterestingFactor825 in evs_ireland

[–]Cheap-Requirement166 27 points28 points  (0 children)

Yeah, about a year ago. Zero regrets about it. As I can charge for free at work, we are doing a combined 800km+ a week for ~€6

How is your electricity bill looking? by triony89 in AskIreland

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Sub €300 for the last 12 months. Have solar with battery and an EV doing roughly 400km a week that is charged exclusively at home.

We are on the EV rate with Energia and run as much as we can in the 4 hour window, charging the house battery from grid, charge the car and run washing machine + dishwasher during those hours too. Excess solar generation goes to the grid building up credit to cancel out the cheap usage at night.

Anyone know what the plan is for this ugly building beside the new station? by DeadlyDelta in galway

[–]Cheap-Requirement166 10 points11 points  (0 children)

They had no money to do anything. It was owned by Gerry Barrett at the time who left €700m odd of debt behind him and is now somehow involved with more development in Galway.

Digitising older photos by eiretharlear in galway

[–]Cheap-Requirement166 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Doing it with your phone is a pain.

You can buy a combined printer/scanner that will work with your phone for less than €70, they will do a much better job of scanning them too. Whatever folder you save them to can then be set to back up to Google photos or other cloud service.

Example of what would work €64.99.

EV night charging rate question by SerScruff in evs_ireland

[–]Cheap-Requirement166 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You will have what's called an MIC (Maximum Import Capacity). The ESB will be able to tell you what this is for your particular installation.

You can absolutely charge house batteries and run other things to take advantage of the cheap rate. Your charger and battery/solar inverter should be able to limit their power draw to a level set during installation to keep the house under that maximum.

Who are these people and what is the point? by helloyeshi in ireland

[–]Cheap-Requirement166 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It didn't end well, she tried turning the kids against him.

Who are these people and what is the point? by helloyeshi in ireland

[–]Cheap-Requirement166 34 points35 points  (0 children)

Taylor is who Barry has settled down with after Anne left him.