State acts where the national rule maker has declined to tread, announcing an Australia-first ban on an insidious energy retailer practice that largely affects vulnerable customers.
A good idea then and will remain so for a while, but I suspect gas will be close to irrelevant for the local electricity market within a decade. Hopefully WA starts pushing hard on the renewable transition as they have been a bit of a laggard historically, but I get the impression they are starting to ramp up.
On your bill example, the per kwh and supply charge would be more comparable, although I get that time of use etc can complicate things.
There’s a lot of domestic solar in WA, same as most of Australia, I guess. There isn’t a lot of sun at night, though. There are a few places like Albany on the south coast that are almost 100% renewable (wind farms).
We still have some coal in the mix, but I’m not an expert/couldn’t tell you how much.
We don’t have peak/off-peak prices. That’s the rate. I remember being pleasantly surprised because our bill halved coming to Perth from Melbourne.
A good idea then and will remain so for a while, but I suspect gas will be close to irrelevant for the local electricity market within a decade. Hopefully WA starts pushing hard on the renewable transition as they have been a bit of a laggard historically, but I get the impression they are starting to ramp up.
On your bill example, the per kwh and supply charge would be more comparable, although I get that time of use etc can complicate things.
There’s a lot of domestic solar in WA, same as most of Australia, I guess. There isn’t a lot of sun at night, though. There are a few places like Albany on the south coast that are almost 100% renewable (wind farms).
We still have some coal in the mix, but I’m not an expert/couldn’t tell you how much.
We don’t have peak/off-peak prices. That’s the rate. I remember being pleasantly surprised because our bill halved coming to Perth from Melbourne.