We advocate for policy measures that address both the short and long term, to ensure we are responding to the immediate need, as well as supporting and empowering consumers as we build for the future.

We engaged Boardroom Energy to better understand the 'Risks to gas consumers of declining gas demand'

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.

Robust consumer protections such as the DMO are needed to safeguard consumers from unjustifiably high price increases.

30% increases will be hard to absorb for consumers already struggling with rising energy costs.

Caroline Valente, one of Energy Consumers Australia's Senior Policy Associates, delivered this presentation to the API Summer School.

We do agree that there is room to improve consumer awareness and understanding of the reference price.

Building the evidence base of the energy costs facing small and medium enterprises.

Energy Consumers Australia supports the Congestion Market Mechanism (CMM) and Connection Zones with Connection Fees options in the Consultation Paper because they will deliver the benefits that effective transmission access reform offers.

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