Presentations | September 19, 2022
QLD Stakeholder Forum – Sep 22
These slides were presented at the Board Stakeholder Forum in Queensland on September 2022
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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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Featured publication Hero publication Presentations | September 6, 2022
Consumer challenges in the energy transition
Affordability is the number one priority issue for consumers. Energy Consumers Australia Chief Executive Officer Lynne Gallagher delivered this presentation to the Australian Energy Regulator’s Rate of Return Instrument Stakeholder Forum in July.
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Submissions | September 5, 2022
Submission to The Energy Security Board’s data Strategy – Initial Reforms Consultation Paper
Reliable and accurate data allows decision-makers and advocates to identify emerging issues, draft solutions and evaluate their impacts
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Submissions | September 5, 2022
Submission to AEMC on amending the administered price cap
Despite its name, function, and intent, our understanding is that during the market disfunction in June 2022, the Administered Price Cap did not actually cap or reduce prices. As a result, this letter, representing our submission on this rule change, makes three primary points.
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Submissions | August 26, 2022
Submission to The Department of Climate Change, Energy, The Environment and Water on Wholesale market monitoring and reporting reforms
Wholesale market monitoring is an essential function for a well-regulated electricity market – particularly at this point in time given the recent market suspension, rising consumer costs, and several market design changes underway. Accordingly, Energy Consumers Australia agrees with the Department on all issues raised in the Consultation.
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Submissions | August 23, 2022
Submission to AEMC – Recovering the cost of AEMO’s participant fees
Energy Consumers Australia encourages the Australian Energy Market Commission to reject the rule change and ensure AEMO fees are subject to the same scrutiny as other network costs.
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Submissions | August 4, 2022
Submission to the Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning on Voltage Management in Distribution Networks Consultation
For such non-network solutions to compete fairly with traditional network approaches requires that third-party providers have access to the same data and information that network companies have on voltage within the distribution system.
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Submissions | August 2, 2022
Submission to the Australian Energy Market Commission on Protecting Customers Affected by Family Violence
Protecting customers affected by family violence is the responsibility of us all. That’s why we commend the AEMC for strengthening the rule change proposed by Red Energy and Lumo Energy.
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Submissions | July 25, 2022
Submission to the Energy Security Board’s Capacity Mechanism Project Design Paper
Our submission sees merit in a well-designed capacity mechanism but the detail of the design process and the design itself will decide whether such a mechanism works to consumers’ overall benefit. Australians expect and deserve a reliable energy system but it cannot be at the expense of having an affordable one.
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Featured publication Hero publication Submissions | July 5, 2022
Submission to the Australian Energy Regulator on the Retailer Authorisation and Exemption framework
Our submission to the AER on their Retailer Authorisation and Exemption Review sets out our thinking on the need for a new consumer protections framework as we transition to a distributed energy future
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