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Public Interest Advocacy Centre
The Commonwealth Treasury’s new proposal for a Consumer Data Right (CDR) increases risks for vulnerable energy consumers, won’t deliver its intended benefits and should be abandoned.
These were the recommendations of the Public Interest Advocacy Centre’s submission to the Treasury’s consultation on its plans for a CDR for energy. The Treasury proposal puts control of energy consumers’ data in the hands of energy retailers and automatically opts consumers in to sharing their joint account data.
‘Giving retailers control of people’s data undermines the intent of the energy CDR to give consumers the ability to use their data to their advantage’, said Craig Memery, Director of Energy Policy, Public Interest Advocacy Centre. ‘Retailers have no interest in helping their customers shop around for a better energy deal. The whole point of an energy Consumer Data Right is to overcome this problem; Treasury’s recommendation will only make i
Public Interest Advocacy Centre
Energy consumer advocate, the Public Interest Advocacy Centre, strongly supports the Australian energy rule-maker’s decision to reject a request from energy network businesses to change network financing rules to the detriment of consumers.
The Australian Energy Market Commission (the Commission) today rejected Transgrid and ElectraNet’s bid to allow them to recover revenue for large capital investments sooner, on the basis it is unnecessary and would create higher up-front costs for consumers.
‘This decision is a win for all consumers and a strong stand by the Commission against rent-seeking by electricity network businesses’ said Craig Memery, Head of Energy Policy, Public Interest Advocacy Centre.
Off-grid dream becomes reality as bushfire threat creates new era for power networks
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Srisa Heffernan could not defend her family property against bushfire last summer, after a power outage left her without water.
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In the days after last summer s bushfires, Srisa Heffernan trampled around her mother s farm to see if she could find anything that hadn t been incinerated in the ferocious blaze.
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