December 2024
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- Energy security
Energy grid’s power imbalance could blow out bills, AER warns
In a review to be released on Friday, the energy regulator also said the government should consider the need to diversify ownership as it underwrote projects.
- Angela Macdonald-Smith
October 2023
Energy regulator warns of growing Snowy Hydro market power
The Australian Energy Regulator singled out Snowy Hydro’s growing share of the market for flexible power and underscored the importance of “open and competitive” markets.
- Angela Macdonald-Smith
April 2023
Big power bill rises coming even as wholesale energy prices ease
The latest quarterly update from the Australian Energy Regulator found wholesale electricity and gas prices continued to ease in the first few months of this year.
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- Mark Ludlow
March 2023
Energy retailers should offer good discounts to consumers: AER
The Australian Energy Regulator chairwoman Clare Savage says the draft default market offer allows retailers to recoup costs and offer good discounts to consumers.
- Mark Ludlow
Power bills to rise by up to 31pc in Victoria
Regulators around the country have recommended steep electricity price increase of more than 30 per cent in some cases, across Victoria, NSW, Queensland and SA.
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- Mark Ludlow and Angela Macdonald-Smith
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- Carbon challenge
Not cheapest, but best decision on grid access, says ESB boss
Energy Security Board chairwoman Anna Collyer says the ESB’s views on transmission access reform have changed since former chairwoman Kerry Schott’s reign.
- Mark Ludlow
February 2023
Let us recoup higher costs: power companies
Energy retailers including Origin Energy are adamant they must be allowed to recoup last year’s sky-high wholesale costs.
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- Mark Ludlow and Colin Packham
Households could see relief on energy bills as price caps come through
The Australian Energy Regulator said the government intervention in the energy market, including price caps, should mitigate electricity price increases in 2023.
- Mark Ludlow
December 2022
Generators limited capacity during energy crisis, but no rules broken
The AER said electricity generators were unhelpful by failing to bid into the market during June’s energy crisis.
- Mark Ludlow
November 2022
Households trapped with energy debt soaring 39pc
The Australian Energy Regulator found almost half of households on hardship programs are not meeting their ongoing energy costs, meaning debt is piling up.
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- Mark Ludlow