Is it cheaper to use electricity during the night in Ireland?

Your electricity rate will be cheaper at night if you have a night meter installed with your electricity supplier.Electricity is not cheaper for everyone at night.

Nightsaver tariffs will make it cheaper to use electricity at night.The night rate is lower than the day rate.The times of cheaper night-time electricity rates can be found here.

If you use a lot of electricity at night, you will get cheaper electricity bills.The homes with the electric storage heaters, electric car chargers and heat pumps use more electricity at night.

In order to make a saving, more than 30% of your electricity usage needs to be done during the night.This equates to 3 units for the average household usage of 11 units per day.

An electric vehicle charging station could use 6Kwh overnight.Based on mileage of 18000km per annum, 15kWh/ 100kms and 80% home charging at night.

4kWh a night is what a heat pump set to heat the hot water will use.Based on 10kWh of hot water at a Coefficient of performance of 2.5.

It would use 3kwh instead of the 1 hour it used during the day.It would be enough in the average household to make night saver worthwhile.If you didn't have to put the immersion on more often in the day, this would be money-saving.