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SME Retail Tariff Tracker Final Report: June 2018

There are approximately 1 million businesses classified as small energy customers under various jurisdictional thresholds of annual consumption in kilowatt hours. Yet there is little evidence of what individually small business consumers might actually be paying for energy and how that is changing over time.

Increases in energy costs can adversely impact all businesses, large or small, undermining their long-term profitability and ability to offer employment and support the prosperity of the Australian community. Energy Consumers Australia commends the attention that has been brought to bear in the Australian Competition and Consumer Commissions Retail Electricity Pricing Inquiry, Preliminary Report on the unacceptable pressures facing Australian businesses and consumers as a result of the price increases over the past ten years.

Through ongoing work on the SME Retail Tariff Tracking Project Energy Consumers Australia continues to build the evidence base of the costs facing small business, particularly those that are energy intensive and are unable to pass on those costs. As in other markets, for competition to be effective the transparency of information is an important tool so that consumers can participate with confidence.

The analysis presented in this SME Retail Tariff Tracker Project Final Report analyses electricity and gas bill outcomes based on retail offers available in April 2018 and compares these with the same period a year earlier.

The full analysis in the SME Retail Tariff Tracker: Final Report June 2018 can be read here.

The Colmar Brunton small business research report for the Australian Energy Market Commissions 2018 Retail Competition Review can be accessed here.

The Australian Energy Market Commissions media release on small business findings in the 2018 Retail Competition Review can be accessed here.

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