Sally Tindall

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491 appearances 5 recordings 3 series first heard Apr 2022 last heard 30 Jun

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The Briefing · Supreme Court rejects Trump order + How to hack your power bill · 30 Jun 2026 podcast

can increase within a quarter based on how much electricity you use, but it tends to be that you use up to X amount of electricity in any given quarter.

You pay one rate and if you use a little bit more, you're probably going to pay a higher rate.

That's a flat rate plan, but then you've also got a controlled load plan.

A lot of households that might have things like a pool would be on a controlled load where there's one feed going directly to that pool pump, which is often on a

plans time of use tariffs where you need a smart meter there is a demand plans which are another beast in themselves and it really depends on how much electricity you're using at those peak times

which can get quite expensive on those demand plans.

And then, of course, you've got people with solar panels.

So they might have a time of use tariff, but they also might be factoring in feed-in rates where they're feeding energy back to the grid and hopefully getting a little bit money back from their electricity provider as a result.

So you can see already the equation is so complicated.

for households who just want to be able to turn their lights on and not have to pay an arm and a leg to do so.

Yeah, it's interesting.

The electricity markets have really evolved in a state and territory environment because the states and territories have been responsible for things like the poles and wires and whatnot for decades.

And so we have different regulators in different states.

For starters, in Western Australia, Northern Territory, North East Queensland, there's not really a competitive environment.

electricity market in those states.

They are highly regulated because of the cost of transmitting electricity, those great distances in those states.

But in the other states where there are competitive markets, say New South Wales, South East Queensland, South Australia, they're managed by what's known as the Australian Energy Regulator.

As part of their role, they set benchmark prices, default prices.

every July in order to make sure people aren't paying through the nose for their electricity prices.

Those default prices, which have just come out, we know what they're going to be for the 1st of July, which is today, they are designed as a safety net for people who can't switch or don't switch to a more competitive plan.

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