Power Bill Predictions rise to 30%

Yes, this is for roof top solar. They pay even less for the large scale solar farm produced electricity and on sell them at high price. Why can't they sell for cheaper? As you said, it costs them nothing to produce. 

I reckon the answer is that all those gas exporters in Qld should be simply forced to build, over the next two years, one or more gas powered generation plants that will feed into the power grid. They should be government compelled to then provide a guarantee the gas/electricity supply for at least the next 20 years even if that means they have to import gas from elsewhere. The nice thing about a gas fired setup is that it should be much more responsive to meeting demand driven load even when the sun don't shine and should be less polluting than coal, That would then give everyone time to address the longer term supply situation. If they don't like it, STIFF, we should just nationalise the entire gas supply in Qld with NO compensation. I think they would suddenly decide to do the right thing. 

It is time the government replaced all the dirty polutting coal power plants with clean renewable sources like solar, wind and wave energy. We should also be using nuclear power as we have huge reserves of uranium to power same. Given the correct control, nuclear would be extremely effective. 

It's high time our labor inclined, so called prime minister, got his head out of his nether regions and started to look after our economy and the Australian people by concentrating on more economical coal fired power than far more expensive, renewable energy 

We have a power pole at the back of our house, it was eaten away with white ants, so they came & put a new concrete pole in. Get this, 18mths later we get a letter, to say they were coming to change the pole. So I rang them to ask why, I told them it is less than 2 years old, didn't believe me, so he sent someone to have a look at it. Two men came, looked, walked around, looked up & down, took a photo & went. For 5 weeks after that, every second day someone was coming to look at our pole, more photo's, more hums & hars, & more photo's. Then there was a ute & big truck with a digger on it, to dig a hole for power wires to go under ground, our power was already under ground. of course it didn't happen. Then a few mth's later, our tree needed to be trimmed. A truck turned up to a 4 foot branch. The man who was doing the tree could not understand why they came from South Australia for a 4 foot branch. And you ask why our power bills go up, & I'm only one person??????? 

I work for large scale solar farm and we sell sell electricity under a PPA at $0.08/KWh to an electricity company (e.g. click energy, diamond energy) and they charge their customers $0.25/KWh. Check how much you pay in your electricity bill. 

I wish the media (including this site) stops spreading these rumours - this will help the companies to raise prices as it is no longer a shock with the media doing their job for them - let them inform the public and also justify it! The media should be grilling them to clarify their position and justify it instead! With massive coal & gas available in Australia, this is caused by massive mismanagement including privatisation - throw out all your local MPs who went along with this by their respective parties. 

This is my view on the energy situation, it's not backed by facts or expert opinion. The amount of coal that we have seems to be pretty large, OK we know its not good for the eniviroment as when I was a kid in the UK, smog was a real problem, I lived with it so I know its real and it was caused by us all using coal for heating. So the UK basically introduce slowly coal and we had to used coke. But for us to just stop immediatly using somthing we have plenty of is stupid why not phase it out over a twenty year period until we have another source of energy to replace it. I like many others was a victim of the solar scam, I believed that I was helping the country and my self by installing Solar panels and hot water. It took me three years to pay for the system only to be ripped of on the rebates from 44 cents to 4 cents, I got a rebate on my bill this quarter of $21.00. When will we ever be repaid for all the effort we put in over 41 years of paying taxes and thinking of Australia. What goverment ever cares????? 

Australia has so much coal left untouched but the so called "Govt. Experts and Greenies" wont have a bar of it. Until Govts. realize coal has a place in the grid it is inevitable people will rebel with these power prices going up and up while we continually try to rely on solar and wind. 

What does it matter. You have to pay it anyway or freeze to death. There goes the over 55 discount out the door.