Retailers Unleash Free Daytime Energy Plans (And Higher Supply Charges)

Most energy retailers have released their mandatory “Solar Sharer” free daytime electricity plans to market, but those who failed to meet the July 1 deadline or hiked daily supply charges could face the wrath of regulators.

How Does Solar Sharer Work?

Retailers revealed their new plans for 2026/27, including Solar Sharer plans that offer at least three free hours of power during the day in NSW, SA and South East Queensland.

The free periods cover 11am to 2pm in NSW and south-east Queensland, and midday to 3pm in South Australia.

Companies including Engie, Red Energy, Origin (the owner of SolarQuotes), Dodo, OVO and Sumo all put forward their offers, which consumers will need to opt-in for if they want to take advantage of free daytime electricity.

Some retailers, including AGL and GloBird, were already offering free daytime power plans prior to Solar Sharer.

Battery And EV Owners To Benefit Most

Solar Sharer aims to make better use of the glut of solar power going to waste in the middle of the day by encouraging people to shift energy loads away from peak evening demand periods.

But the scheme could additionally make the most of the massive number of batteries freshly installed across Australia – July 1 also marked the first year of the federal battery rebate, with 457,439 home batteries installed over that period.

SolarQuotes’ resident fact checker Ronald Brakels told the SwitchedOn podcast that Solar Sharer plans could be of particular benefit to battery owners who could charge up with free electricity to use later on when electricity prices are at their peak.

“They’ll charge it for free in the middle of the day, and then the battery will be full early in the afternoon every day. Once you have more people using their own battery power in the evening, the demand for grid electricity drops,” Ronald said.

Ronald also noted that EV owners could also make good use of the free electricity periods, although he noted they would be the most likely to exceed the 24 kWh free electricity cap on Solar Sharer plans. People who own solar only may not be as well-suited to Solar Sharer, since they are already getting free or close to free daytime power, and these plans are expected to feature higher costs elsewhere to balance out the free periods.

We’ll be undertaking a deeper analysis on this and you’ll be able to compare for yourself under changes coming to our electricity plan comparison tool.

A woman closing the boot of a charging EV.

EV owners could be one of the bigger beneficiaries from the new plan, as touted in the federal government’s promotional images.

One Of The Biggest Retailers Missed The Deadline

Energy Australia – one of the country’s “big three” retailers – however failed to meet the required July 1 start date, and according to the Australian Financial Review is not planning to make the scheme available to customers until September.

Energy Minister Chris Bowen said he was “deeply disappointed” in the company and warned that it may face penalties.

“I make clear to EnergyAustralia publicly and privately my expectation that they comply with the law or they will be dealt with the full force of regulation … EnergyAustralia customers have every right to be aggrieved and every right to switch their business to a business that is compliant with the law,” Bowen said.

Supply Charges Hiked By Some Companies

Energy Australia is not the only retailer in the federal government’s bad books. Although the cost of energy consumption has generally dipped slightly, some customers have reported increases of over 85% to daily supply charges for the coming year for electricity plans (not an issue specific to Solar Sharer offers).

A number of retailers, including  EnergyAustralia and the other members of the “big three” in Origin and AGL, hiked the fixed daily supply charge component of bills, despite the Default Market Offer for 2026/27 setting lower benchmark electricity prices.

Bowen has asked the energy regulator and the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) to investigate companies that have bumped up supply charges at a time when electricity prices were expected to drop.

Retailers pushing up supply charges say the move is driven by regulatory changes that enforce maximum usage and fixed rate fees, rather than the previous setting of retailers being left to determine the allocation of costs between usage and supply charges.

Victoria Launches Its Own Crackdown

As energy companies flip over to new plans, customers who don’t bother checking in on what’s now available are routinely hit with a “loyalty tax” by not being moved over to the best plan available. It is an issue that Victorian regulators are now acting on, imposing a “reasonable price cap” on energy offers that are more than four years old. Retailers will be required to switch customers on such an offer to a lower rate.

Victoria will also be joining the free solar lunch later this year, introducing the Midday Power Saver scheme with three hours of free electricity from 11am to 2pm, starting October 1.

For more, read our summary of Solar Sharer, and our guides on configuring your battery to make the most of free electricity and ensuring you have a powerful enough inverter.

About Max Opray

Journalist Max Opray joined SolarQuotes in 2025 as editor, bringing with him over a decade of experience covering green energy. Across his career Max has won multiple awards for his feature stories for The Guardian and The Saturday Paper, fact-checked energy claims for Australian Associated Press, launched the climate solutions newsletter Climactic, and covered the circular economy for sustainability thinktank Metabolic. Max also reported on table tennis at the 2016 Rio Olympics — and is patiently waiting for any tenuous excuse to include his ping pong expertise in a SolarQuotes story.

Comments

  1. ACTEWAGL is another supplier that isn’t giving the 3 hours for free

    • Correct and $272 supply charge if you don’t mind. However join their VPP and you’ll get 50% off the supply charge. On other words take it off you with one hand and give it back with the other. No other tangible benefit from joining their VPP. Do they think we are fools?

    • R Van Vliet says

      Ovo amended price notice received today.
      They Currently have not changed the price structure other than offering a Super off peak Rates between 11am to 3pm
      Your electricity rates explained
      Rate description Old rate New rate
      Daily Supply Charge ($/day) $1.1088 $1.1088
      Peak Charge ($/kWh) $0.37884 $0.37884
      Off Peak Charge ($/kWh) $0.20328 $0.20328
      Super Off Peak Charge ($/kWh) – $0.121
      Solar ($/kWh) $0.01 $0.01
      All prices include GST


      Your tariff structure is changing
      Old Structure
      Time of use
      Peak 3pm-9pm
      Off Peak 12am-3pm, 9pm-12am

      New Structure
      Time of use
      Peak 3pm-9pm
      Off Peak 12am-11am, 9pm-12am
      Super Off Peak 11am-3pm

  2. Leanne Dunn says

    Ergon Energy have extended Solar Sharer to all of regional Queensland as well, not just SEQ, from 1 July 2026 under Tariff 12F. The daily fee is a bit high for my taste but the free hours could be useful for battery charging when FNQ’s wet season/multiple cloudy days starts.

    I look forward to seeing your analysis and comparison tools. Ergon’s internal comparison tool is relatively crude and not terribly helpful.

    • My Origin charges were
      General usage $0.334070
      Daily supply $0.804120
      Fit $0.03
      Now
      General usage $0.337194
      Daily supply $1.861344
      Fit $0.03
      On our approx 500kWh a year there is virtually no change in general supply cost but adding about $380 a year from the supply charge.
      If this is due to apportioning costs for the solar saver, I’m not a fan.

      • Greg, try a look at AGL’s ‘Residential Solar Saver’ plan, you may find a bit of joy with that.

        • I just looked at changing to AGLs “new customer Seniors Saver” which a month or so ago was offering $0.80 daily connection fee, now it’s $1.51 and the electricity rates have gone up also, Glo Bird (my current supplier) are increasing their rates as well. How about a prize for the 1st. person to report they actually have found a cheaper package !?

          • A follow up; I just changed from GloBird’s BOOST to GloBirds FOUR 4 FREE, cheaper daily rate, up to 50kwh free between 11am & 3pm but higher rate for evening peak (3-11) about the same for “shoulder” (11-11) , should work for me with 2 Tesla batteries. Check it out.
            Please DO NOT send me anymore NOTIFICATIONS.

          • Anthony Bennett says

            Hi Richard,

            Thanks for the recommendation, we love people helping.

            If you’re talking about stopping notifications for the blog, I think that’s a box you have to unckeck yourself?

            Sorry if that pings you another notification!

  3. My daily supply charge with Origin (the owner of SolarQuotes) went from 80.256c per day to 161.0664c per day on July 1.

    Now switching to RedEnergy.

    • Be careful, my son is with them and they have demand pricing on at least some of their plans.

      • David Jamieson says

        Time to say bye bye to retailers, never needed them in the past!

        • Unfortunately, Solar Sharer will turn out to be a stunt. Retailers will preserve or expand profitability by increasing charges outside the window more than they are forced to give away in the window.

          We will see these retailers run well-practised rings around the ACCC, AER and AEMC.

          In my view, a better solution is to simply regulate the maximum margin retailers can take between their FiT and prices paid by consumers local to the PV owners for locally generated energy.

          • Joseph Viviers says

            I agree completely with your view. Just check how many retailers are in Victoria, they know it is a money printing machine for them and there is virtually every day a new one that climbs on the bandwagon. Not sure if the Authorities think there should be a retailer for every customer.
            I have solar and batteries and is going to stop feeding power into the grid. There is no way on earth that I will sell power to the grid at o.o3 cents so that they can sell it at 44 cents or whatever their rate per kWh is. We should mobilise everybody with solar and batteries to do this. At some stage they may need us or they can build new power generation plants to get power. If I did not require to get power in the winter when it is overcast with clouds I would have got off the grid completely.

        • Kevin Reay says

          Agree, Have a think about what your retailer actually does?
          Do they produce any power ——-NO Origin does
          Do they maintain infrastructure——-NO Origin does
          Do they read your meter ——–NO Origin does
          Do they record raw dater ———NO Origin does
          All they do is create a bill from data sent to them from Origin and email it to you,all done by computer programs.
          Do they take massive profits for doing practically nothing cost you more for electricity——- YES!!
          They are not necessary.

          • Kevin, you are right on the money there. I thought everyone knew this?

          • But they are very necessary for the politiicans!
            Gives the illusion that politicians are not putting up the price of power, it is all those mean private companies doing it (even though the politicians approve all rises in reference rate power costs).
            Gives the illusion that there is competition in the market, on the basis that the “retailers” can deliver customer services and collect the money in a much more efficient way than occurred before the industry was “privatised” when you bought direct from the generator… ( Yet somehow the generators are now not allowed to compete in the retail market because they would have an unfair advantage… – IE give you cheaper power…)

          • Actually, Origin is just another retailer and does nothing of what you state they do, other than create and issue bills. Sorry to burst your bubble. Origin is also one of the worst retailers to deal with. If you call their customer service line and get answered in less than an hour, that is a very good call. Obviously, I am an ex-customer of theirs.

          • Joseph Viviers says

            I think that Kevin means to say Powercor.

        • Privatisation of essential services. Customers are sitting ducks.
          And thank you, David, for confirming Solar Quotes is owned by Origin.
          Origin is also a prominant fossil fuel supplier.

    • I’m also leaving rip off origin.
      Found supplier that only charges 83cents per day and also lower KW costs

    • Likewise Origin upped my daily rate so going to move once i have done some research

    • Patrick powell says

      Red Energy have quoted me a daily supply chare of over 185c per day on their solar sharer plan versus 122c per day on current plan

      • All of the “free 3 hour” plans I’ve seen have daily supply charges set at just under $2/day. It’s not really free… you just pay in a different way.

  4. I am not sure how the household with batteries and EV will benefit? I have BYD battery and I don’t believe there is an automatic setting to tell when the battery to charge from the grid. I believe I can do it manually but not automatically. As concern the EV unless you work from home and/ or night shifts I don’t see how you can charge the vehicle between 11 am and 2 pm.
    I am with Alinta and both the supply charges and the tariffs have been increased from 1st of July. I still haven’t been provided with the option for “FREE” Electricity. I guess we have to shop around…

    • I’m with OVO in Victoria which has 3hrs for FREE and I manage to always top-up my Alpha ESS 20kW battery each day, enabling me to be almost 100% battery power for the whole day, while paying a daily supply charge of $0.93 plus the trickle cost ~ 20c per day. Not FREE, but less than $30.00 per month. Unhappy, but not very… 🙂

    • Not sure about your BYD battery, but I thought all battery systems can be set to charge only at certain times.
      Mine defaults to Self-consumption mode, but is easily set to time-of use mode.
      When I set that mode, I then get a screen that allows me to set charging (from the grid) periods, and discharge periods, and the % of charge in each case.

  5. My understanding has always been that decentralising electricity generation should reduce infrastructure costs. Rooftop solar has enabled millions of homes to generate their own electricity over the past couple of decades, reducing the amount of power that needs to be transmitted over long distances. Now batteries are also spreading demand across the day by storing excess solar and reducing evening peaks.

    So why does the conversation increasingly seem to be about rising network costs? Surely a more distributed system should reduce the need for expensive transmission upgrades, not increase it.

    Or is the real concern that traditional retailer and generator business models are being disrupted as more households become self-sufficient? I’d be interested to hear from someone who understands the economics of the grid, because this seems counterintuitive to me.

    • Anthony Bennett says

      Hi Meini,

      I hate Fakebook but get on and find NEM Watch for some good engineering level understanding.

    • Well around where I live extensive distribution infrastructure investment is being installed for two massive data centres. One for Next DC and the other for AWS. They are laying underground cables down my street for the data centres and I am 10 km away from the new data centres. I bet the cost is being added to the bill of the average mug.

    • Because someone has to pay for all those new transmission lines feeding renewable energy to data centres, aluminium smelters etc. And you can bet your bottom dollar it wont be the data centres and aluminium smelters etc…

  6. The retail electricity market is ludicrously complex. We’re in Brisbane and nobody can convince me that the current multiple retailers are ALL trying to make money from us- LOTS of money.
    As a retired engineer and pilot, I’m not “dumb”, but yet I feel very dumb when trying to find a better plan. The details are extremely hard to find, with lots of “ifs buts and maybes” and much of it is hidden. The government “energy made easy” website is simply not up to scratch, and often throws up incorrect results.
    We have solar but no battery, and for us it’s nearly all bad news.
    Our daily access rate has skyrocketed, and we’ve been hit with what amounts to a big increase in our electricity bill no matter how we use it.

    • Anthony Bennett says

      Hi David,

      Try BillHero or get a CatchControl from catchpower… that gives you solar analytics plan tool.

      Either way they’re your own data to deshroud the retailers & make the choice naked.

      • Anthony Bennett says

        Hi David,

        Sorry I had to find the bookmark but I use this comparison service. Pay your subscription and they promise they’ll save you more than it costs.

        Set up automatic forwarding of your bills, they’ll let you know when better deals crop up.

        It must work because at least one retailer has been caught declining customers with an @BillHero address simply because they know you’ll be shopping around. Forward your bill manually and they’ll never know.

        https://www.billhero.com.au/

        Full disclosure, if somebody signs up using the code below, we both get an additional two months of Bill Hero for free.

        bh11811-nmp1668684689

    • Hi David
      I have used WATTever to select the better retailers. They do seem to keep their data current (pun intended). Having said that I still deploy a spreadsheet to make final decisions, and you really shouldn’t have to. I wrote to our state Government (Vic) suggesting standardization of the fee structures so that comparisons could be made easily, but I was eventually patted on the head and told it doesn’t work like that – der!

  7. Robyn Pogmore says

    Oh.
    Origin Energy owns the Solar Quotes pages, you said.
    Oh.

    • Anthony Bennett says

      Hi Robyn,

      Origin used to be one of the country’s biggest solar installation companies. By their own admission they did a high volume of 3 & 4 star jobs. It was a very ordinary “customer journey” in corporate jargon.

      They closed that business and bought SolarQuotes because the small and medium enterprises we work with deliver better results, while Origin & the broader community need & benefit from more solar & batteries.

      It means they can close Eraring sooner.

      I’m not on Origin’s payroll, I don’t get their staff electricity plan because frankly it’s crap.

      However they dare not mess with our independence becuase we trade in trust which is hard to earn & easy to burn.

      • Anthony Bennett says

        Hi Robyn,

        Sorry fir the delay, I had to find the bookmark but I use this comparison service. Pay your subscription and they promise they’ll save you more than it costs.

        Set up automatic forwarding of your bills, they’ll let you know when better deals crop up.

        It must work because at least one retailer has been caught declining customers with an @BillHero address simply because they know you’ll be shopping around. Forward your bill manually and they’ll never know.

        https://www.billhero.com.au/

        Full disclosure, if somebody signs up using the code below, we both get an additional two months of Bill Hero for free.

        bh11811-nmp1668684689

    • Said Mo Faisel says

      Renewables cause energy prices to increase. Who coulda guessed that!?

      • Anthony Bennett says

        Hi Said,

        How is Intercast & Forge, Australia’s largest iron foundry, actually viable… in historically expensive South Australia?

        It’s cheap wind and solar power available on the wholesale 5 minute spot market that’s how.

        Retail prices have risen? What hasn’t, but it’s proven the LNP privatising public assets wasn’t actually a public good.

        (SA has always had high prices because it’s the same footprint as Victoria with 25% of the population. ie there’s fewer customers per kilometre than even Qld)

        They know when volatility & high prices are likely, and they’re flexible enough to switch off or do maintenance.

        Like farmers they will work Sunday if the weather is right though, because energy is cheap when the wind is blowing.

        Without it, Intercast & Forge would be out of business.

      • David Jamieson says

        It’s called the gov allowing the costs to be passed onto the consumer when it should be the bug energy cos paying for it!

  8. Greenberg says

    Roof leaks some time after installation of panels. It could be months (or even years as in my case) before heavy rain and then you find you have a leak. Should there be an inspection of the mounting rack installation and extra sealing around the screw heads BEFORE the panels are installed?

  9. Yes, i am certainly not happy with my 50% hike in daily connection fees, nor am i happy that the government’s energy made easy web site is just full of plans that when you click on them, say the plan is no longer available…

  10. Great to get get some clarity and opinions on this federal government initiative.

    The other aspect of this offer, that hasn’t been mentioned in the article or in Finn’s video, is that there will be energy limits for the free period. The government has stipulated a minimum of 24kWhs, and that will be easy to use up in three hours if charging a battery, heating hot water or charging an EV. Some retailers offer 50kWhrs of energy during their free windows.

    Be sure to source technology that can quantify the amount of energy consumed during these free windows and to change conditions when the limit has been reached. This technology is out there.

  11. Tom Sjolund says

    I have no need to take advantage for solar saver. My average for a year’s feedin on system 1 is 14MWhr and for system 2 is 7MWh. I have enough to power all our appliances including our EV 24/7.
    But I’ve taken a stand in a person protest against the new tariffs, if the regulators don’t want my power at a decent price well then no one is going to get it. I’ve been off grid now for 3 days.
    I got my final statements from Ergon today System1 – $350 credit and system 2a massive $18 which was promptly paid.

    • yes, i have to say it is very tempting. I already have a generator. The cost of installing a change over switch for emergency use should my solar and battery fail would be paid of in 3 – 4months at their new network connection fee rate.

  12. Erik Christiansen says

    The timing may be supremely opportune, as increasingly impecunious ordinary Australians face an imminent El Niño summer. Free power for aircons may then be life-saving – so long as we install the equipment in time. France has been impeded by disdain for aircons, but necessity is the mother of panic, now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_98ta3dzb4

    Again, foresight is absent. Hindsight is all we have. Homos Sapiens? Who are we kidding?

    And let’s not forget: Self-generation = climate resilience, immune from grid outage. That’s not a decreasing climate risk, as weather extremes proliferate.
    (Even earthquakes may be made more frequent by Greenland rising 3 cm p.a., displacing the global magma “waterbed”, as 1,000,000,000 tonnes of ice melt off every 33 hrs.)

    Sunny yesterday here: 48.7 kWh of solar, into BEV, HWS, heating & aircons.
    Zero grid load.
    Resilience also saves the fridge, so you don’t have to eat the ice-cream first.

  13. There is no such thing as ‘free power’ – what the energy retailers give in one hand is taken back with the other hand via inreases in fixed charge rates and consumption tariff rates.

  14. Not really on topic but does anyone know if it is possible to have an EV charger hooked up to SA’s controlled load tariff?

    I am still on the SA PFiT for another couple of years and export most of our solar (@56c) and this would be the cheapest way for me to top up the EV for now.

    We already have the HWS on the controlled load but seldom use it.

    • Anthony Bennett says

      Hi Rod,

      I know for sure it was an approved use of j tariff and assume it still is, provided you have an OCPP compliant charger.

      Just be aware the meter will normally only handle 32A on the contrlled circuit, so you either need to throttle the EVSE and/or reduce the HWS element to share the capacity.

      Or install a changeover switch to pick between the hot water and EVSE.

    • Les in Adelaide says

      Rod, if you come back to this reply . . .
      You do know about SA retailers EV plans ??
      You do need a smart meter for the TOU plan, and be frugal for evening power use, or have solar with battery.
      We charge 32a for 2 EVs between midnight and 0600 for 8c/kwh, if fact all power into the home in this time is 8c so our HWS is off CL and now on the main circuit to heat water daily for about 40c.
      The EVs cost us max $1.65 per 100km on the 8c rate.
      In summer we use solar a lot to charge too, but it’s cheap enough at 8c.
      There are plans in SA that have 6 hours of 8c during the day too in solar soak, but more suited to solar with battery owners.

      • Thanks for that.

        We are still on the SA PFiT and export 99% of our rooftop generation @56c so it behooves us to stay on that until Jul 2028.

        But I will certainly be looking at other controlled load plans when the time comes.

  15. Astrid S-J says

    We are in south east Queensland and have just purchased solar panels,battery and an EV. Expensive month!

    Now the challenge is finding the right retailer who won’t overcharge us. Not interested in selling energy back to the grid, just keeping costs down.
    Open to peoples thoughts on Red Energy and Globird as possible providers.

  16. I had no idea you are owned by Origin, an absolutely dreadful company! That immediately removes any form of independent reporting that I had attributed to you. That’s a real shame, as I held (past tense now) this site in very high regard.

    • Anthony Bennett says

      Hi Mike,

      Origin used to be one of the country’s biggest solar installation companies. By their own admission they did a high volume of 3 & 4 star jobs. It was a very ordinary “customer journey” in corporate jargon.

      They closed that business and bought SolarQuotes because the small and medium enterprises we work with deliver better results, while Origin & the broader community need & benefit from more solar & batteries.

      It means they can close Eraring sooner.

      I’m not on Origin’s payroll, I don’t get their staff electricity plan because frankly it’s crap.

      However they dare not mess with our independence becuase the currency we trade in is trust. Impossible to buy, hard to earn & easy to burn.

      Personally I’d recommend you look at BillHero

      • Thanks Anthony, as a previous customer of Origin (which doesn’t seem to know there is such a concept as customer service), you have restored my faith in Solar Quotes. I hadn’t heard of Billhero, but it looks like I’ll be signing up with them. Thanks again.

        • Anthony Bennett says

          Hi Mike,

          Sorry I had to find the bookmark but I use this comparison service. Pay your subscription and they promise they’ll save you more than it costs.

          Set up automatic forwarding of your bills, they’ll let you know when better deals crop up.

          It must work because at least one retailer has been caught declining customers with an @BillHero address simply because they know you’ll be shopping around. Forward your bill manually and they’ll never know.

          https://www.billhero.com.au/

          Full disclosure, if somebody signs up using the code below, we both get an additional two months of Bill Hero for free.

          bh11811-nmp1668684689

  17. I am in Victoria and the three hour window would be very useful for me during winter while for the remained of the year no advantage as very rarely do I draw from the grid. So it makes sense to change my plan and use of the window seasonally. However I have a Sungrow Inverter and the Energy Management functionality for “Forced Mode” is not effective. Sungrow will remotely program my inverter to use the sharer window. But to switch it on and off I have to contact their support. Not a very flexible way to go. It is good that they say that they are prepared to give me this support but nor an ideal solution. Since they can do it remotely then it should be technically possible to incorporate the functionality in the iSolarcloud app. I asked then if they had plans to do so and they said no and suggested using a VPP plan. However I have a LG battery and no one in my distribution area offers a VPP with my battery. I am hoping that enough people complain to Sungrow that they change their mind a

  18. I’m with Origin and they dropped my usage charges but cranked up my Daily Supply Charge. I phoned them and said I’d switch elsewhere and lo and behold they told me they have a Senior’s Plan with much lower rates. I switched over immediately. It’s worth asking the questions or you don’t find out and just keep paying the higher prices

  19. I believe these plans definitely have a place, but I don’t think they’ll work for everyone.

    Much of this article focuses on putting everything on timers to take advantage of free daytime energy. Many homes only have a 50A or 63A service, and fixed timers don’t know maximum supply limits. Without intelligent management, homeowners could find themselves tripping circuits.

    You also didn’t mention the fair use cap. Many of these plans limit free imports to around 24 kWh per day. How are homeowners expected to actively manage this with dumb timers?

    This highlights why HEMS will become increasingly important, enabling homes to respond dynamically to tariffs, weather, network constraints and household demand, rather than fixed timers.

  20. Nothing is free – the “free hours” had to be paid for somehow – it was inevitable that the cost was going to be added into rates somewhere

  21. In Victoria have been using Ovo since Feb on their Free 3 plan. They dont have a download cap and charge is 28c pkh flat outside of the 3 free hours. If you refer someone you get between 120-180 credit over the year so if you do that 2x you cover your supply charges which are around $30 per month. Both the referrer and referee get the credit. If you have a battery you can do very well with the plan. Also the Ovo app is really good.

  22. E. Potter says

    Ergon have a monopoly in central Queensland, no choices for us. They were busy pushing their 6% reduction on the local news at the end of June, (reported by 7 as a 6% reduction in “bills”) the 6% reduction is off the price of 1kWh of electricity, which comes to a grand total of just over 1 cent!
    The daily supply charge however has gone up by over 27 cents a day and solar feed in has been cut from 9c to 6c.
    Ergon, please explain how this is a 6% reduction in bills, or have you just let 7 news misunderstand what you are actually offering and relied on them to mislead everyone with your carefully chosen wording in your press releases.
    6% of 29c is not the same as 6% of $100+
    And, if as they claim, the daily supply charge has to be shared out amongst all their customers to cover the cost of maintaining a vast network, why are customers on time of use tariffs paying less? Are we not all using the same network? Another rip-off.

  23. Funny enough my AGL prices (Victoria) are going down.

    From:
    Peak c/kWh 42.130000
    Off peak c/kWh 17.996000
    Supply charge c/day 127.314000

    To:
    Peak c/kWh 41.195000
    Off peak c/kWh 16.830000
    Supply charge c/day 116.688000

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