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Energy $prices DOWN! Who's looking forward to the massive drop in the cost of their next electricity bill? (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Following the "unprecedented price rises" in the past year for retail electricity rates across Australia, it looks like we have some "unprecedented price drops" just around the corner!

I'm not sure whether I need to end this post in a /s or not.

Alt-text: Line graph of annual avg wholesale electricity prices in NSW/QLD/SA/TAS/VIC over F.Y. ending 2010-2024. 2022,2023 show an increase of 100~130% compared to 2021; 2024 shows a return to ~2021 prices (except SA).

Data source: https://aemo.com.au/energy-systems/electricity/national-electricity-market-nem/data-nem/data-dashboard-nem

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Have you looked at your bill and seen how much of your bill is actually power usage and not administrative charges or grid connection fess?