{"id":384418,"date":"2025-08-30T06:11:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-30T06:11:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/384418\/"},"modified":"2025-08-30T06:11:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T06:11:13","slug":"more-than-25000-households-set-to-automatically-transfer-to-power-ni-as-electric-ireland-exits-northern-market-the-irish-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/384418\/","title":{"rendered":"More than 25,000 households set to automatically transfer to Power NI as Electric Ireland exits northern market \u2013 The Irish News"},"content":{"rendered":"

More than 25,000 Electric Ireland customers across the north will see their tariffs automatically cut when they become Power NI customers next week.<\/p>\n

Electric Ireland will officially exit from the domestic supply market in Northern Ireland on September 8.<\/p>\n

Under a commercial agreement signed with Power NI, Electric Ireland\u2019s 26,000 remaining domestic customers will automatically switch to the north\u2019s largest supplier.<\/p>\n

The ESB-owned supplier originally announced plans to withdraw from the residential market in Northern Ireland in May 2024, following a strategic review of its business.<\/p>\n

\"Administrators<\/a>\"Planning<\/a><\/p>\n

It plans to remain active in Northern Ireland solely as a supplier to businesses and industrial premises.<\/p>\n

\"ElectricElectric Ireland has been supplying northern households since 2015. <\/p>\n

The supplier first entered the northern domestic electricity market in 2015, some 15 years after it started supplying business customers.<\/p>\n

As part of a commercial agreement signed between Electric Ireland and Power NI, customers who do not choose another new supplier before then will automatically become customers of the Energia-owned Power NI.<\/p>\n

Around half of Electric Ireland\u2019s 53,000 customers have switched supplier since May 2024.<\/p>\n

But Electric Ireland has confirmed it still supplies power to some 26,000 households.<\/p>\n

Those households are set to join Power NI in eight days.<\/p>\n

It will enhance Power NI\u2019s status as the north\u2019s largest domestic electricity supplier. <\/p>\n

It had just under 517,000 domestic customers in the first quarter of 2025, more than three-times the number of its nearest domestic rival, SSE Electricity (143,729).<\/p>\n

According to the Consumer Council, Electric Ireland\u2019s domestic customers pay one of the most expensive rates.<\/p>\n

The supplier currently charges 36.54p per unit (kWh) for both prepay and direct debit customers.<\/p>\n

Based on a Consumer Council estimate of households using 3,200 units per year, that equates to an annual bill of \u00a31,169 per year.<\/p>\n

Although many families consume much higher rates of power throughout the year.<\/p>\n

Power NI\u2019s tariffs currently range from 29.06p to 30.9p per unit, producing an annual average ranging from \u00a3930 to \u00a3989.<\/p>\n

While thousands of Electric Ireland customers are set to enjoy lower rates under Power NI, other suppliers have claimed they could save even more. <\/p>\n

Share Energy\u2019s chief executive Damian Wilson said the supplier currently charges 25.29 per unit, albeit with a standing charge of 13.33p per day.<\/p>\n

He claims Electric Ireland\u2019s residential customers could save almost \u00a3400 per year with the recently launched local supplier.<\/p>\n

Commenting on the major transfer of customers to Power NI, a spokesperson for the north\u2019s Utility Regulator said: \u201cElectric Ireland entered into a commercial agreement with Power NI to transfer any domestic consumers who have not moved to another supplier before 8 September 2025.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll customers also have the option to move to either Power NI or another supplier before 8 September, with no exit fees or penalties.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs this is a commercial agreement between Electric Ireland and Power NI, further queries should be directed to those companies.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"More than 25,000 Electric Ireland customers across the north will see their tariffs automatically cut when they become…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":384419,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[57237,24557,133348,1312,38895,1144,133349,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-384418","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-consumer-council","9":"tag-electric","10":"tag-electric-ireland","11":"tag-electricity","12":"tag-energia","13":"tag-northern-ireland","14":"tag-power-ni","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115116237814706295","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=384418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384418\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/384419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}