Bruce Mountain
A new regulation has highlighted that consumers who used comparison sites typically paid 5-12% more than the lowest possible offer.
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Consumers are angry about energy policy that doesn’t add up
Remember the Babel fish from the Hitch-hiker's Guide to the Galaxy? Advocates are using them to justify the NEG.
How can a policy that is designed to do something that will happen anyway causes prices to be any lower than they would be anyway?
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If you need a PhD to read your power bill, buying wisely is all but impossible
Energy bills are becoming to complex to understand, but we can learn much by analysing them closely. Here's how..
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Market Insight residential electricity price series
New data shows that energy consumers are paying more than they think in their bills, and more than what the regulator admits.
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Is the NEG just an EIS in disguise, but with added costs?
The NEG seeks to obscure the most valuable information obtained from a market – the price of emissions. Needless complexity and cost arises.
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Three-wheeling towards a poor energy policy outcome
Defending NEG on basis that something must be better than nothing is like trying to build a car and settling on just three wheels and no steering.
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Tesla battery + solar now “significantly cheaper” than grid power
Just 14 months ago, the writing was on the wall for grid-only electricity supply. Turns out the gap between grid only and PV+battery+grid is growing much more quickly than...
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NEG: A tangled web of electricity regulation
How will retailers meet their emission reduction obligations under the proposed NEG. It's a tangled web, and we suspect the ESB is starting to understand the monster it is...
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NEG is supposed to be better than nothing. But is it?
The NEG is yet another case of Australian exceptionalism in energy, typical of the toxic mix of muddled thinking and ideology that dominates regulatory oversight of this industry.
