Choose the perfect smart plan for your home

Yes, you can change from a standard plan to a smart meter plan through your online account. If you wish to switch to a different smart meter plan after that, you will need to contact our Customer Care Team on 1800 372 372 who can arrange.

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.

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.