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Commentary Featured Posts Main Feature | April 13, 2021
Power price relief welcome but downward trend must continue
A recent drop in energy prices has provided much-needed relief for Australian households and small businesses, but there is still plenty of work to do.
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Commentary Featured Posts Main Feature | April 8, 2021
Newsletter: March 2021
Our March newsletter explores how our communities and energy system needs to be more resilient and better prepared for the future.
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Featured publication Hero publication Our research | March 18, 2021
Social Licence for Control of Distributed Energy Resources
To help decision makers, we commissioned CutlerMerz to develop a framework on how to create and maintain a social licence with the community to improve consumer acceptance of DER integration policies.
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Featured publication Hero publication Submissions | February 22, 2021
Submission to the AER on the Evoenergy and Australian Gas Networks (SA) gas access arrangement revised proposals 2021-26
This submission adds comment on the future of gas distribution networks and the impact this transition will have on consumers.
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Energy Consumers Australia is the independent, national voice for residential and small business energy consumers.
We enable residential and small business energy consumers to have their voices heard by the sector by working with other consumer groups to gather evidence-based research with a national perspective, distil it to key viewpoints, and feed it back to the market to influence outcomes.
Our vision for the market
Affordable energy for households and small businesses.
Individualised energy services that give consumers choice and control.
Optimised energy system that minimises cost for consumers.
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Consumers driving change
Key to optimising our energy system is providing genuine choice and control to households and small businesses, embracing them as partners in change.
Energy services must be built around individuals to reflect their unique circumstances; enabling people to easily manage their own use and costs.
Households and small businesses are willing partners in change if provided the tools and support they need – whether that be information, data, new affordable technology or other supports.