Cairns Solar Feed-in Tariff Creates Controversy

05/04/2014 | Politics | Leave a comment

The recent announcement of the government in regards to the change on feed-in tariff Cairns has elicited conflicting responses from the affected consumers and government officials. Energy Minister Mark McArdle announced that the mandated 8 cent solar feed-in tariff by network energy businesses such as Ergon Energy Cairns and Energex will be stopped. He said that the consumers affected by this change will have to negotiate directly with the retailers. With this change, the rates for the regional customers of Ergon Energy Cairns will be approved by the Queensland Competition Authority. While those in the Energex region will have to...

Aurora sale collapses causing fear of Power Price Increase

09/10/2013 | Politics | Leave a comment

The Government has discarded plans to sell Aurora Energy’s customer base causing Tasmania’s main welfare lobby group concern that power prices will increase. Aurora Energy a state-owned company will now lose its retail monopoly next July because the government abandoned plans to sell due to not attracting high enough bids. In the past decade power prices have doubled. With the climate in Tasmania being so cold compared to other parts of Australia, Tasmanian households use more electricity on heating therefore using more of their income to pay electricity bills. There are fears the situation will now get worse which will...