Power Up & Save Campaign visits the home of the world’s most expensive electricity prices!

No competition for consumers in Far Nth Qld, it's Ergon or nothing. -and that's not just for our power but for most items! The more the item is needed the more expensive it is! I'm sure others in "regional" Aust have the same problem. Maybe the "powers that be" should be made to pay "regional" prices for electricity, petrol, gas, etc. for 6mths / 1 year. 

No choice in Wa 

No choice but Ergon in Rockhampton Queensland. The issue that irritates the most is that Ergon continuously charges a "service fee" of 89.572 cents per day which equals about $90 per quarter for what they describe as infrastructure maintenance, ie., maintenance of poles and wires etc, and about $11 per quarter for "meter maintenance" (whatever that is). In total these charges exceed the Qld Govt rebate of about $83 per quarter, so the State is just paying most of the Ergon infrastructure charges and is not actually rebating any electricity costs in terms of KWH. WHAT A RIPOFF. Maybe this is to Ergon's way of recouping the debt transferred to it by the State govt? Ken 

no choice in howard qld only ergon 

In North Queensland we do not have a choice--its ERGON or no power!!!!!! We do not have alternative suppliers. Can somebody fix this???? Are you aware that the Government in Queensland transferred $4 billion in debt from treasury to ERGON?? is this why we are paying too much for our power??? David 

Why don't you actually become the power company and buy power from the providers and sell it back. Be one of them, but not with the profits, now that would get them where it hurts. I am sure there would be people out there to do the admin come one guys be the power company come on buy it, at wholes sale prices, its just a matter of the right system 

Australia is facing a crisis an energy resources, security, generation and supply and no matter how conscious and careful you are in the use of energy in the home costs are set to escalate further. As for the the discounts on offer they are not actually discounts they are in fact a penalty built into your bill if you you fail to pay by the due or if you fail to take up the so called discount offer. check out the following articles : http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-02-28/pm-turnbull-urged-to-secure-local-supplies-of-natural-gas/8308542 https://www.google.com.au/search?q=union+letter+to+australian+prime+minister+on+energy&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-b-ab&gfe_rd=cr&ei=N1qWWfatGK_M8ge8kYTwCw 

All this hype about savings in electricity can be very misleading. Each circumstance is different and one needs to compare your usage, charges, discounts (and, if you have solar then also the solar feed in tariff) from your OWN electricity bills to assess the real savings. The past 4 bills would be best. I have done this and compared at least 6 providers, and whilst some have bigger discounts they also charge more so the End Result is about the SAME. Electricity companies aren't stupid. They do their comparisons first before baiting us. Fiftyup Club should prepare a simple App so that we can put in our own values and the App will give us the results. All the current Electricity Comparison sites are too simple and can give wrong results. Good Luck! 

YEP,I looked at my AGL bill 6 months after moving and said "just not on". I had already sorted the mix up that meant the account number of my old electricity account had become my new gas account number and my electricity number was a new number, meaning my Centrelink deductions were all going to my gas tepid water account, not on electricity. When I questioned my huge increase I received real concern and help. It appeared that my pensioner discount was still on my defunct electricity account and as you can only claim the discount once I was not receiving it. There was also another discount for paying on time (well in advance and always in credit) that was on my gas account but not on my electricity and a $300 credit given. This was done quickly and efficiently over two departments both of which were using well spoken, I suspect, English as a first language, staff. Therefore the advice"ring your supplier and make sure everything is as at the best possible price" really worked for me. Note, some discounts have an expiry date,and mine is one year. This means the date has been listed on a 'transfer page' at the end of my 2017 diary and and will be written in to next years diary 2 weeks before the 'pay on time' deal is due to expire. Good Luck. 

Never switched before so don't know how to go about it. Would like to know more. Roy from SA