Time to re-regulate power retailers to stop price gouging

Andrew Marshall
August 18 2017 - 5:00pm
POWER UP: South Australia reputedly has the world’s most expensive average electricity costs, at 47.1 cents a kilowatt hour, with NSW, Queensland and Victoria also ranked in the top 10.
POWER UP: South Australia reputedly has the world’s most expensive average electricity costs, at 47.1 cents a kilowatt hour, with NSW, Queensland and Victoria also ranked in the top 10.

IT’S A a challenge akin to unscrambling an egg, but there is growing support for the re-regulation of Australia’s retail energy market to help bring power prices back to earth.

Andrew Marshall

Andrew Marshall

National agribusiness writer

Andrew Marshall is the group agribusiness writer for ACM's state agricultural weeklies and websites. He is a former editor at The Land and has worked in various Rural Press group roles in Canberra, North Richmond (NSW) and Toowoomba (Qld).

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