Power prices to fall for most customers with bigger drops for businesses
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05-26/power-prices-fall-in-latest-dmo-release/106718250
Power prices to fall for most customers with bigger drops for businesses
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05-26/power-prices-fall-in-latest-dmo-release/106718250
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No mention in the article of the connection fee. The retailers were arguing to increase that to suck money from solar users.
The problem is so few consumers ever check their offer against the DMO. Probably good for new connections but it’s going to take a long time to flow through to consumers
They should have one price for consumers and another price for data centres. Politicians still have time to examine this before the big pipelines of new ones are built.
It’s not fair to hammer consumers with the massive externalities of the data centres build out.
No.. mine keeps going up and up until I get onto a new plan that is lower, until it goes up and up until I get onto a new plan that is lower…
This time they didn’t even bother renaming the new plan.
1.1% in SA, let’s goooo 🚀
They say that I’m the headline then it is some customers in SA will see an increase of 1.4% in the article so it’s more bullshit propaganda from our state media.
On the one hand the grid is definitely expensive to have and keep upgrading as more houses and other uses get built. And that doesn’t go away just because more people generate as much as they use, they’re effectively using the grid as their battery. So a high daily connection charge is justified, same as it is for water and sewer (my water consumption is typically $20 on a $200 water bill).
BUT right now grid connections are optional. Increasingly it makes no sense to be grid connected if you live in a sensibly designed house. Not even passive house standard, just decent insulation and a roof designed to fit solar panels (ie, not a multi-facet black tile roof).
My bet is that within a decade you’ll be paying the grid for “ability to connect”, same as you pay for water. Once even 5% of city houses are off grid that’ll mean 20%+ in some streets, and there’s a risk of a death spiral: fewer customers paying for the same grid means more cost per customer, so going off grid makes sense to more people, so there are fewer customers…
Wonder what the rest of QLD will get as a price.
Over to the Murdoch press to find a way to spin this.
I’ll believe this when I see it right there in my energy bills otherwise this is just more words of bullshit from the government.
Electricity prices dropping? From renewables? But but but… Won’t somebody think of the coal mining donors of the Liberals, Nationals and One Nation!
If you want a small laugh: The image of that big battery in the article is credited to Synergy.
Synergy is the WA government owned generation company and retailer. That big battery is in Collie WA on the SWIS, whilst the article is talking about energy prices on the NEM covering the Eastern states and SA. Good job ABC.