Comment on Check your energy rates!

Pot8o@aussie.zone [bot] ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• MisterFrog@aussie.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ergon_Energy

  You’re in the situation what we wish to get back to in Victoria, you should feel lucky, not complaining.

  “Bargain hunting” for a electricity retailer is absurd. Because the privately owned electricity distributors set the rates, and the retailers just repackage the wholesale rates as fixed cost supply and usage charges. There is no “choice”. (This is the situation in Victoria)

  There should be one electricity distributor, the government (this is buy-in-large, your situation), who provides electricity at cost. Because it’s a natural monopoly, there’s no use of having parallel energy transmission wires owned by different companies, which is why that isn’t done anywhere in Australia (in most cases).

  This is exactly why our costs are way higher than in Queensland. “Competition” of privatisation doesn’t work.

  Thanks Kennett (the Liberal Premier who sold off the Vic SEC).

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