Irish electricity price indexNovember 2026

SmarterMeter checks the published domestic tariffs of all 11 Irish electricity suppliers on a regular basis and keeps them in a live price register — rates, standing charges, discounts and sign-up bonuses. This page is recalculated from that register every hour, so the figures are always current rather than a snapshot from a press release.

All costs are Estimated Annual Bills (EABs) as defined by the Commission for Regulation of Utilities: 4,200 kWh of typical annual consumption priced at each plan's unit rates (for smart tariffs, split as ESB Networks' 2026 urban smart load profile, which the CRU requires: day 2,257 kWh / night 1,544 kWh / peak 399 kWh), plus the urban standing charge, any prepayment charge and the PSO levy, all including 9% VAT — and excluding cashback, welcome bonuses and other non-energy items, exactly as the CRU definition requires. The headline “typical annual bill” is the average, across suppliers, of each supplier's cheapest new-customer plan on that measure. Wholesale-tracking dynamic tariffs are excluded. Each time we check, the prices are compared against what we have on file, and every change is checked by hand against the supplier's page before it is listed, so a “change” recorded here means a supplier really did alter a published price. Up or down is judged on the typical home's bill. A discount changing on its own (a sale starting or ending) isn't counted: the supplier's own price didn't move.

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