Energy Prices Up From Today

Great, my super pension goes up $1:45 per week and electricity by about $5:00 per week. Looks like they're trying to recoup the discounts they enticed us with!! 

Hi, I am still astounded by electricity companies mine being Origin in that they have the audacity to charge reading the solar meter. For goodness sake both metres are virtually side by side and how long does it take to actually read both metres? not long, this is simply yet another money grabbing scheme. It was not all that long ago we were not charged for reading of the metre, after all if they did not read them how would they charge you for your consumption just an average over the previous readings, yeah good one Origin you money hungry so an so's 

Electricity seems to be just another stream of taxation revenue for State Governments 

Why has there been no reason given for the price rise of electricity i.e. renewable energy certificates that the producers have to buy from today? 

NSW is trying to get the power price up as much as possible (as well as scheduled later year increases) as it is effectively the only "Tax" they can levy. Tax - surely not? Yes, that is just what a certain merchant bank advised them to do years ago to both boost yearly revenue and, here's the kicker, create a 2 to 4x increase in the price received for privatising them. State Govts are not allowed to tax per se but they can allow their State owned entities (like poles and wires for example) to increase charges. Increased NSW gas prices were supposed to "reflect the export price of gas or NSW will not have any supply." Now that the export price for gas has halved - has anyone's AGL et al bills dropped massively? Why not? The scam of de-facto State Taxes was revealed a few years back as being endemic Australia-wide by virtually all Govt owned entities. In NSW many State Govt senior executives running power generators or transmission companies testified before Parliamentary hearings that 'demand for electricity was (& had been) rising every year and the transmission network need substantial investment to cope with increasing demand. The reality, falling for 3 years (at that time) and this was before major power users had begun to shut down operations (such as several steel makers and Aluminium smelters), However , the guaranteed profit on every $1 spent on 'capacity improvements' was up to 6% above the cost of borrowing - so the State Govt Ponzi scheme at the community's expense was underway. Did any of senior State Govt execs get disciplined or jailed for fraud? Not one. But the privatisation value of State Govt Entities increased up to 400%. Plenty of commissions/fees for advising banks, maybe directorships for retired State Govt bureaucrats or MPs on shelf companies associated with these privatised (or soon-to-be) entities. Bit like looking at the Sydney desalination plant shelf companies and their boards. Good money for some at the communities expense. 

So now I would like to know how good is privatisation? Why can the politicians not see how irrational privatisation is? It is ok for them as they can "gift themselves pay rises " and extol their virtues with the statement "shop around" Good luck with that! Jerry 

Be interesting to see how we compare with other countries in cost per kw/hour 

Thanks to the consecutive governments for privatizing and liberalizing electricity, make sure who you're voting for! 

as stated wa have no choice 

As usual WA people have no choice!