Submissions | June 27, 2023
Submission to the AEMC on the Market Price Cap, Cumulative Price Threshold, and Administered Price Cap
Read our submission to the AEMC as they consider updating various reliability settings.
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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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Submissions | June 16, 2023
Submission to the Australian Energy Regulator on the Gas Distribution Network Reference Tariff Variation Mechanism and Declining Block Tariffs Issues Paper
The transition away from fossil fuel gas raise material risks for household and small business consumers. Read our submission to the AER on this issue.
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Submissions | June 2, 2023
Submission to the Energy Security Board on the Transmission Access Reform: May 2023 Consultation Paper
Transmission access reform is vital to ensuring the market is designed appropriately.
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Submissions | June 2, 2023
Submission to the AEMC’s Draft Report: Review into Consumer Energy Resources Technical Standards
Technical standards have a direct impact on the performance, functionality, and cost of Consumer Energy Resources. That’s why we must get them right.
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Submissions | May 8, 2023
Submission to the Essential Services Commission on the Gas Distribution System Code of Practice Review 2023
This review is an opportunity to continue progressing a plan for a fair and safe transition from fossil fuel gas in Victoria.
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Presentations | May 1, 2023
Consumer Perspectives on the Energy Transformation
Caroline Valente, one of Energy Consumers Australia’s Senior Policy Associates, delivered this presentation to the API Summer School.
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Submissions | April 6, 2023
Submission to the Essential Services Commission on the Victorian Default Offer 2023-24 Draft Decision paper
30% increases will be hard to absorb for consumers already struggling with rising energy costs.
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Submissions | April 6, 2023
Submission to the AER regarding the Draft Determination on Default Market Offer Prices 2023-24
Robust consumer protections such as the DMO are needed to safeguard consumers from unjustifiably high price increases.
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Submissions | April 3, 2023
Submission to AEMC regarding Unlocking CER Benefits Through Flexible Trading
The flexible trading arrangement (FTA) rule change, proposed by the Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO), has been positioned as a way consumers can access more value from their CER, by incentivising flexible demand that can support the operation of the system, while not needing to change their behaviour for their everyday electricity use.
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Featured publication Hero publication Our research | March 22, 2023
Risks to gas consumers of declining demand
We engaged Boardroom Energy to better understand the ‘Risks to gas consumers of declining gas demand’
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