ESB Introducing New Low Usage Standing Charge

[richie268]

Should the healthy man pay his Doctor more seen as he does not seek his advice on a regular basis?
Sounds a bit Irish .

[Tweek]

Out of interest how can the ESB say with all certainty that you didn't use 2 units a day....when they read your meter....surely its a culmative reading?

Its averaged. They aren't going to say "On the 4th of May, you plugged out the fridge and as a result didn't use 2 units, pay up". Its effectively 122 units a bill not 2 a day.

Only mostly empty house in my family still has a fridge, freezer and dehumidifier plugged in 24/7 so should be over even if not being used for a prolonged period.

Should the healthy man pay his Doctor more seen as he does not seek his advice on a regular basis?
Sounds a bit Irish .

There are actually some GP surgeries that have loyalty cards!

[EUrJokingMeRight]

So? What's that got to do with the point I've made, which is that it's common practice in many businesses (not just supermarkets) to offer discounts to regular or higher use customers and to charge irregular or lower use customers a higher price.

If you use less you should pay less. But clearly in 'maintain the madness' circles, the thinking is not so linear.

[Coles]

A fart would take more than 2 units of energy its tiny

Wow! Is that a medical condition? 2 units of electricity is enough to lift yourself from the ground to a height of 8160 meters. I can only imagine what that has done to your colon.

Here's a thread on Boards.ie about how this 'Low Usage Standing Charge' was going to impact on MicroGenerators who supply electricity to the National Grid. Yes, you guessed it! They were going to apply this as a levy on MicroGenerators. Thankfully they appear to have rowed back from that and are instead content to continue to offer small-scale producers of clean renewable energy one of the worst feed in tariffs in Europe.

[goosebump]

They already charge the highest rate in Western Europe for electricity. And now they think that this is insufficient.

72.3% of your posts are factually inaccurate.

[Casillas]

This is utterly wrong

[nicht besonders]

I can't believe this.

[vladimir]

The ESB/ElectricIreland are now charging people for under usage of electricity. I know of an elderly person who lives alone and is away a lot with family who was hit for about 16 euros for February alone, because of under usage. She has gas cooker and does not use much electricity. They did not have to get authority from CER to do this, just did it on their own bat.What about the hefty standing charges already in existence and other charges, independent of how many units you use.
Some Insurance comapnies will not insure a vacant house unless water and ESB are cut off from Oct- March I undersatnd.

[damus]

Thread already exists .

ESB Introducing New Low Usage Standing Charge

[gatsbygirl20]

Everyone with a "second home" is now being treated as if they were a landlord who got into the property game during the Tiger and helped send the countrey over the cliff.

At least one person I know who lives in Dublin, inherited a small rural house which had been in the ancestral family for generations. Rather than flog it during the Tiger for an astronomical sum, they held on to it , restored it slowly and sympathetically to fit in with the local environment, never rented it out,....and now have to pay the holiday home tax, plus this new ESB charge....