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The battle for AGL heralds a new dawn for Australian electricity
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Two events in the past week mark a watershed for Australia’s electricity industry.
The first, on Thursday, was Origin Energy’s surprise announcement that it intends...
I chose the electricity retailer offering the best deal for my home. That’s not what I got
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Households in most of Australia have been able to choose between electricity retailers for more than a decade. The main reason is...
Now they want to charge households for exporting solar electricity to the grid — it’ll send the system backwards
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It’s come to this. The Australian Energy Markets Commission has produced a draft decision that will make households and small business with solar panels pay...
Snowy 2.0 will not produce nearly as much electricity as claimed. We must hit the pause button
Prime Minister Scott Morrison in front of the Tumut 3 power station
at the Snowy Hydro Scheme. New analysis suggests the benefits of...
Victorians who switched energy retailers only save $45 a year – leaving hundreds on the table
Free competition is supposed to give customers the best deal –
but that’s not happening in Victoria. AAP Image/Dan Himbrec
There has long been a...
Australia’s energy woes will not be solved by reinforcing a monopoly
Australia’s energy market has a logjam, Sean Davis/Flickr
The possibility of blackouts affecting half of Victoria has attracted plenty of attention to a document...