{"id":293698,"date":"2026-01-20T09:39:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T09:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/293698\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T09:39:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T09:39:09","slug":"switching-electricity-provider-there-was-a-e50-charge-to-end-our-existing-contract-but-we-knew-the-money-would-be-made-back-quickly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/293698\/","title":{"rendered":"Switching electricity provider: \u2018There was a \u20ac50 charge to end our existing contract but we knew the money would be made back quickly\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Baker and business owner Keith O\u2019Farrell got a 50pc reduction on his electricity standing charge when he switched to a new supplier\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Keith O'Farrell of Sourdofarrell, Ennis, Co Clare. Photo: Eamon Ward\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/d04a1161-9e84-4f56-a367-f448cca44039.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Keith O&#8217;Farrell of Sourdofarrell, Ennis, Co Clare. Photo: Eamon Ward<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Being self-employed can be a tough role at times, but it can also have its benefits as running your own business and knowing the importance of keeping costs down and the ways in which it can be achieved, are invaluable lessons which can be incorporated into your personal finance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">This is true of Keith O\u2019Farrell who runs an artisan bakery called Sourdo\u2019Farrell in Ennis, Co Clare. The expert baker was so aware of the need to find the best deal on service providers for his business, that he adopted the same methods at home, and recently discovered that by changing his electricity provider, he could make a good saving.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Baker and business owner Keith O\u2019Farrell got a 50pc reduction on his electricity standing charge when he switched&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":293699,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[79,18,48122,19,17,18612,146201],"class_list":{"0":"post-293698","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-energia-group","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-sse-airtricity","14":"tag-switch-save"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115926765713944915","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293698\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/293699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}