Review Seeks Electricity Priced as Simply as Milk

Review seeks electricity priced as simply as milk

Barely-comprehensible energy bills may become a thing of the past as Australia's electricity rule-maker proposes power priced as simply as milk.

Electricity like milk? The plan to simplify complex power bills

Millions of Australians have been often unwittingly moved to complex and variable power tariffs. An energy watchdog says bills must be simplified.

Energy watchdog wants power bills to become 'more like buying milk'

By energy reporter Daniel Mercer Power companies would be prevented from charging households complicated electricity bills under a proposed shake-up that would also shame providers slugging consumers with ‘loyalty taxes’. While delivering a comprehensive power pricing review, the Australian Energy Market Commission has called for an overhaul of how people pay for the service. The AEMC is a key regulator that sets the rules in the national electr…

"Too complex, too hard, too often unfair:" Plan to reform electricity pricing backs contentious tariff changes

AEMC pushes ahead with a hotly contested recommendation to reform how network costs are recovered from customers, while opting to put dodgy retailer behaviour to the sunlight test, rather than banning it.