Submissions | December 22, 2022
Submission to ARENA’s Community Batteries for Household Solar Survey
Energy Consumers Australia welcomes the Community Batteries for Household Solar Program as a key opportunity for the government to…
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Featured publication Hero publication Our research | February 6, 2025
Consumer Energy Report Card: How households use gas and their attitudes towards electrification
Read our latest report in the Consumer Energy Report Card series, which outlines how Australian households use gas and their attitudes towards electrification.
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Featured publication Hero publication Our research | February 6, 2025
Consumer Energy Report Card: How households use gas and their attitudes towards electrification
Read our latest report in the Consumer Energy Report Card series, which outlines how Australian households use gas and their attitudes towards electrification.
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Featured publication Hero publication Our research | January 16, 2025
Consumer Energy Report Card: Consumer knowledge of electricity pricing and responsiveness to price signals
Read our latest report in the Consumer Energy Report Card series, which illustrates how consumers are responding to dynamic pricing.
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Featured publication Hero publication Our research | December 3, 2024
Consumer Energy Report Card
Access data and insights from the Consumer Energy Report card, our comprehensive research and analysis project about Australian household and small business energy consumers.
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Featured publication Hero publication Our research | December 3, 2024
Consumer Energy Report Card: Consumer perspectives on Australia’s energy transition
Read the first report from our Consumer Energy Report Card, about consumer perspectives on Australia’s energy transition.
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Latest Publications
Submissions | December 22, 2022
Submission to the Energy Security Board’s Transmission Access Reform Directions Paper
This reform is crucial to ensuring the market is designed in a way that aligns with the Integrated System Plan and that the market appropriately signals the right combination of new renewable energy generation, new storage and firming resources, and new transmission.
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Submissions | December 21, 2022
Submission to the AER on Review of Consumer Protections For Future Energy Services
We are pleased to see the proposed three models in the review paper aim to address this change, and at times propose ambitious steps away from the status quo to consider consumer protections in a new light
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Submissions | December 15, 2022
Submission to the AER Draft on Ring-fencing Guideline Electricity Transmission – Version 4
As the dispatchable storage market is in its early stages of development with several technical, commercial, social and regulatory barriers to overcome, it makes sense to consider how network service providers (NSPs) can play a valuable role to help further develop this niche.
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Presentations | December 13, 2022
BSL Talks – PowerPain: Opportunities to reduce energy stress
Energy Consumers Australia Chief Executive Officer Lynne Gallagher delivered this presentation to the Brotherhood of St. Laurence BSL Talks
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Our research | December 13, 2022
Consumer Pricing Preferences Report
ECA has commissioned qualitative research into how Australians manage their energy bills and what their preferences are.
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Submissions | December 9, 2022
Submission to the AER Issues Paper on the Review of the Regulatory Framework for Flexible Export Limit Implementation
Energy Consumers Australia recommends that the AER ensures that distribution network service providers (DNSPs) approach to the roll-out of flexible exports is transparent and communicated in a clear and understandable manner to both industry (including solar retailers and installers) and consumers.
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Submissions | November 29, 2022
Submission to the AER on the Default Market Offer Prices 2023-24 Issues Paper
As the AER rightfully acknowledges, the current market has only amplified the significance of the DMO as a tool to protect consumers from unreasonably high prices.
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Our research | November 23, 2022
What Australians really think about Energy Efficient Housing
This report, jointly commissioned by ECA and Renew, explores the views of Australians towards energy efficient housing and related issues.
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Submissions | November 22, 2022
Submission to the ESB’s Interoperability Directions Paper and the AEMC’s Review into Consumer Energy Resources Technical Standards Consultation Paper
“How” technical standards are mandated and enforced, and “who” is responsible for mandating and enforcing, are the two key questions we see as unanswered in the current technical standards process.
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