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Featured Posts Main Feature Media release | September 12, 2018

Scholarship to honour Dr Gill Owen

The Gill Owen Scholarship supports an individual to travel internationally to research innovative ideas and initiatives.

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Featured Posts Main Feature Media release | August 10, 2018

Commitment to a way forward with National Energy Guarantee

CEO Rosemary Sinclair said there was a commitment by Ministers at today's COAG Energy Council meeting to continue work on the NEG, using the market to integrate emissions and energy policy for the first time in Australia.

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Featured Posts Main Feature Media release | August 3, 2018

Certainty needed for greater price relief for consumers

The key value of the National Energy Guarantee is that it brings energy and emissions policy together for the first time, relying on markets to deliver the lowest price outcomes.

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Featured Posts Main Feature Media release | July 11, 2018

ACCC draws a line in the sand on electricity prices

This review is the most thorough assessment of the electricity market in a very long time and provides the evidence base for reform to improve energy affordability.

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Featured Posts Media release | July 10, 2018

Regulator has consumer interests at centre of rate of return decision

The Australian Energy Regulator has today put the long-term interests of households and small businesses at the centre of its draft decision.

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Media release | July 2, 2018

Small business electricity bills are unsustainable

Energy Consumers Australia Acting CEO Lynne Gallagher says small businesses need relief from the high costs of electricity in their businesses.

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Media release | June 15, 2018

Price relief for Queenslanders a start on the road back to affordable energy

Households and small businesses expect a higher bar to be set for electricity companies in the future.

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Media release | June 8, 2018

Retail price changes a small step on path back to affordable energy

Electricity price relief announced by AGL today is good news and consumers will be expecting to see the trend continue and accelerate.

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Media release | June 5, 2018

First retail price changes a modest start to lower prices

Lower energy prices announced by Origin Energy in Queensland and South Australia was good news for some but the decision not to provide price relief for consumers in NSW or the ACT did not meet the expectations of consumers in those markets.

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Media release | May 31, 2018

AER decision on network prices good for regional New South Wales

The Australian Energy Regulator today made its first decision since the abolition of the Limited Merits Review process, to finalise how much revenue an electricity network company can collect from consumers in New South Wales.

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