{"id":21446,"date":"2018-05-23T12:50:25","date_gmt":"2018-05-23T02:20:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/?p=21446"},"modified":"2018-06-20T14:37:08","modified_gmt":"2018-06-20T04:07:08","slug":"power-of-choice-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/power-of-choice-costs\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Power Of Choice&#8221; Pushes Costs Onto Electricity Consumers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-21691 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/meter-costs.jpg\" alt=\"Power Of Choice - Electricity Meters\" width=\"1220\" height=\"620\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/meter-costs.jpg 1220w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/meter-costs-300x152.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/meter-costs-768x390.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/meter-costs-1024x520.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1220px) 100vw, 1220px\" \/><br \/>\nLast week I wrote about the &#8220;Power of Choice&#8221; reforms that put <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/power-of-choice-meters\/\">electricity retailers in charge of electricity meters<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Today I&#8217;m writing how Power of Choice reforms harm the consumer by stealing the most valuable thing you possess: your time on this Earth.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The bureaucrats claim that giving you even more choice about how you pay for electricity empowers you. But by making your life more complex, they reduce the amount of time and energy you have to do things you either want or need to do and so decrease your power.<\/p>\n<p>This is a problem because if the body that makes the rules about electricity, the Australian Energy Market Commission or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aemc.gov.au\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AEMC<\/a>, thinks it is helping people when it is actually harming them, then it is incapable of doing its job: providing for the long term benefit of consumers.<\/p>\n<p>The goal of the Power of Choice reforms is to introduce new methods of paying for electricity that encourage people to consume less when electricity demand is high, reducing stress on the grid.\u00a0 This has the potential to lower the cost of grid electricity for everyone and, when done right, could be worthwhile.\u00a0 But the people in charge should not lie to either the Australian people or themselves and pretend that:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>there&#8217;s no cost to consumer and<\/li>\n<li>they are somehow doing people a favor by making their lives more difficult.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The language used by the AEMC to promote their Power of Choice reforms reminds me of another reform in the past that did not turn out well for Australians, which was the introduction of electricity retailing.\u00a0 Back then choice was also presented as being of benefit to consumers rather than a burden.<\/p>\n<h2>Before Electricity Retailing<\/h2>\n<p>I am so incredibly old I can remember the days before we had electricity retailers.<\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-wrapper\"><iframe title=\"Abe Simpson - Union Buster (The Axios Interview)\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5Rzao52ndNA?start=23&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>If you live on-grid in New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, or South East Queensland; electricity retailers are now a part of life.\u00a0 They&#8217;re a burden 19.5 million out of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abs.gov.au\/ausstats\/abs%40.nsf\/94713ad445ff1425ca25682000192af2\/1647509ef7e25faaca2568a900154b63?OpenDocument\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">25 million<\/a> Australians have to bear.<\/p>\n<p>Before they existed, residential electricity was simple.\u00a0 In the 1990s you might pay $50 to get connected and electricity was about 10 cents a kilowatt-hour.\u00a0 That&#8217;s not adjusted for inflation so it&#8217;s not quite as good as it seems and in my part of Queensland, blackouts were more common than where I live today in moderately reliable Adelaide.\u00a0 But in Queensland a good chunk of that 10 cents went into the state&#8217;s general revenue as the electricity sector was a cash cow milked to keep other taxes low.<\/p>\n<p>It was very a very different situation from recent years where electricity prices have been sky high and states such as Queensland and Western Australia have spent fortunes subsidising grid electricity to protect consumers from its full cost.<\/p>\n<p>Back in those simple days when we were living our simple lives not once did we stop to think:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;This <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/otCpCn0l4Wo?t=13s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">MC Hammer<\/a> is great and all, but do you know what would really make our lives in the 90s complete?\u00a0 If instead of just having a single way of paying for electricity, it would be wonderful if we instead had to select between a vast array of different plans, intentionally designed to be confusing, and ended up paying more as a result.\u00a0 That would be so radical, dude.\u00a0 Cowabunga.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h2>What People Want<\/h2>\n<p>Back then all we wanted from electricity was for it to be there when we flicked on a switch and to be as cheap as possible.\u00a0 Also, while it wasn&#8217;t given as much thought back then as today, everyone except sociopaths would have preferred it come from sources that don&#8217;t wreck the climate or ruin people&#8217;s health through pollution.<\/p>\n<p>These days people want exactly the same thing, except they are even more aware of environmental issues &#8212; or alternatively more practiced at pretending they don&#8217;t exist.<\/p>\n<h2>What Electricity Retailing Is<\/h2>\n<p>Electricity retailing is only about providing bills and customer service.\u00a0 It has nothing to do with the electricity your home actually receives.\u00a0 Changing retailers will have no effect on the reliability of your electricity supply or its quality.\u00a0 What it does change is the logo on your electricity bill and who you get on the phone when you ring them up.\u00a0 I hope you enjoy the freedom to choose between logos and call centers because, depending on where you live, over 10% of the average electricity bill can go towards paying for it<sup class='endnote'><a href='https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/power-of-choice-costs\/#en-21446-1' id='enref-21446-1' onclick='return hhEndnotes_show(21446)'>1<\/a><\/sup>.<\/p>\n<h2>What Electricity Retailing Gave Us<\/h2>\n<p>The electricity retailing we had foisted on us was not capable of lowering costs.\u00a0 It was only capable of increasing them.\u00a0 This would have been obvious to anyone at the time who took the trouble of examining the reforms and had some basic understanding of how humans work.\u00a0 But despite this, it was sold as an innovation that would lower costs for consumers and the need to choose between a huge number of different electricity plans was presented as being a benefit instead of a drain on people&#8217;s time and energy.<\/p>\n<p>When there is a change from having one electricity plan to many competing electricity retailers, each with multiple plans, it is going to create a lot of confusion.\u00a0 The competition is going to result in people ringing up to change retailers and the confusion is going to cause people to ring retailers because they don&#8217;t understand their electricity bills.\u00a0 Money to cover all this extra &#8220;customer service&#8221; has to come from somewhere and it comes from increases in what you pay for electricity.<\/p>\n<p>In Victoria last year, the average household had around <a href=\"https:\/\/reneweconomy.com.au\/failed-experiment-now-its-retail-arms-gaming-energy-consumers-88229\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">$465 added to their electricity bills<\/a> to pay for electricity retailing.\u00a0 In Tasmania, a state without electricity retailers, it was around <a href=\"https:\/\/www.auroraenergy.com.au\/your-home\/bills-and-payments\/your-bill-explained\/electricity-cost-breakdown\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">half that much<\/a>.\u00a0 Victorians have the highest percentage of their electricity bills go to retail of all the states.\u00a0 This isn\u2019t because they are stupid, but because their high penetration of domestic gas means Victorian households use the least electricity on average<sup class='endnote'><a href='https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/power-of-choice-costs\/#en-21446-2' id='enref-21446-2' onclick='return hhEndnotes_show(21446)'>2<\/a><\/sup>.<\/p>\n<h2>Power Of Choice Versus Electricity Retailing<\/h2>\n<p>To me it&#8217;s clear electricity retailing was introduced not to benefit consumers but to transfer money from consumers to companies involved in electricity retailing.\u00a0 While these companies are technically owned by us they are not owned by us in general but mostly owned by those of us who have a lot of money, so it\u2019s not exactly fair.<\/p>\n<p>While electricity retailing was never going to save consumers money, the Power of Choice reforms may reduce electricity costs.\u00a0 Unfortunately, it will unavoidably involve making electricity bills even more complex.\u00a0 But there is no sign of any recognition by the AEMC that this is a trade off and the cost of this extra complexity for consumers has to be deducted from whatever savings are expected from the reforms to determine if there is any net benefit.\u00a0 Instead they seem to think the added complexity is a feature rather than a burden.\u00a0 Or they know it\u2019s a burden and are just lying.\u00a0 But I\u2019ll sleep better at night if I assume they are incompetent rather than maleficent.<\/p>\n<h2>The Power Of Choice \u2013 What\u2019s In A Name<\/h2>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know about you, but just looking at the name of the reforms &#8212; Power of Choice &#8212; fills my heart with foreboding.\u00a0 The title seems to make it clear the AEMC regards making people\u2019s lives more difficult as a good thing rather than a pain in the neck or possibly even a location at the other end of the spinal column.<\/p>\n<p>An optimist might say:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIt\u2019s just a name.\u00a0 Someone probably thought it sounded good and they got stuck with it.\u00a0 The AEMC would be well aware of the debacle electricity retailing turned out to be and would never in a million years repeat the same mistake of treating added complexity as a benefit rather than a regrettable necessity.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Unfortunately, the trouble with optimists is they are way too optimistic.\u00a0 Sure, their sunny dispositions may allow them to live longer, but only because paranoid pessimists keep preventing them from getting themselves killed.<\/p>\n<h2>The Power Of Choice In The AEMC\u2019s Own Words<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aemc.gov.au\/our-work\/our-current-major-projects\/power-choice\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">This page<\/a> gives the AEMC\u2019s spiel on their Power of Choice reforms.\u00a0 It starts with:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThis ground-breaking review put consumers in the driving seat.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Okay, is this driving seat in a DeLorean so I can travel back to 1990?<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-21667 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/delorean.jpg\" alt=\"Australians in the drivers seat for electricity?\" width=\"970\" height=\"545\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/delorean.jpg 970w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/delorean-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/delorean-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 970px) 100vw, 970px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It then goes on to say:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cPower of Choice is all about opportunities for consumers to make informed choices about how they use energy\u2026\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The trouble with this is there are 19.5 million Australians in 7.5 million households who are currently can&#8217;t make informed choices about which retail electricity plan to use because they are quite intentionally too confusing to easily compare thanks to varying discounts, supply charges, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/systems\/feed-in-tariffs\/\">feed-in tariffs<\/a>.\u00a0 If they want people to make informed decisions they should get to work cleaning up that mess first.<\/p>\n<h2>A More Honest Way To Explain Power Of Choice<\/h2>\n<p>You know what?\u00a0 I have a better idea for how this document should begin.\u00a0 Something along the lines of:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>The AEMC is introducing new methods of paying for electricity.\u00a0 These are designed to encourage households to consume less during periods of high electricity use and lower the cost of grid electricity for all Australians.\u00a0 This will make selecting an electricity plan more complex than it already is and we apologize for this.\u00a0 We regret placing this additional burden on Australian consumers and are only doing so because we are confident the reduction in electricity costs will make it worthwhile for the majority of Australians\u2026<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h2>They Expect Consumers To &#8220;Identify&#8221; And &#8220;Implement&#8221;<\/h2>\n<p>The AEMC page states:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201dConsumers need a range of information so they can identify and implement efficient demand options.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I can&#8217;t see my father identifying and implementing efficient demand options.\u00a0 My mother would find it difficult too.\u00a0 My sister couldn&#8217;t do it and my brother is so lazy he would invent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=PNquVCe-FmA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">zero point energy<\/a> before trying.\u00a0 Out of my entire extended family I am probably the only one who could pull it off and that&#8217;s only because I am really weird.<\/p>\n<p>The AEMC says they have a goal of:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cimproving customer access to information about their energy consumption\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I see no recognition that providing this information to consumers will only do any good if they spend time studying it and understand it.\u00a0 There is also no indication the AEMC understands the time and effort spent absorbing this information is a cost to consumers that needs to be taken into account.<\/p>\n<p>I can tell you now, a lot of people aren\u2019t going to pay any attention to the additional information.\u00a0 Around 40% of our species does not understand that 18% interest on a credit card is not a good deal and the AEMC appears to expect average consumers to calculate which demand management plan will save them a few dollars on their electricity bills.\u00a0 This is not going to happen.<\/p>\n<h2>A Radical Three Step Suggestion<\/h2>\n<p>Rather than expect people to become electricity plan experts, I instead propose a radical three step process that would apply to everyone who has a smart meter installed<sup class='endnote'><a href='https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/power-of-choice-costs\/#en-21446-3' id='enref-21446-3' onclick='return hhEndnotes_show(21446)'>3<\/a><\/sup>:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>If people would be better off on a demand side participation plan, tell them. Each time they get a bill it can say how much money they would have saved if they had been on a different plan.<\/li>\n<li>If people could benefit from being on a different plan with modest changes in consumption, bribe them.\u00a0 For example, if they change to a new plan for 3 months, no matter what happens, they get $50 off their next bill.\u00a0 To be fair this bribe should be available to everyone.<\/li>\n<li>For people who clearly won\u2019t benefit from being on a new plan, leave them the hell alone.\u00a0 No attempt should be made to trick them into changing for anyone else&#8217;s benefit because that would be wrong.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h2>Or Give People Energy Monitoring Systems<\/h2>\n<p>Another option is to simply install energy monitoring systems in people\u2019s homes for free or subsidise them.\u00a0 These can automatically manage people\u2019s energy use and are falling in price.\u00a0 Once the AMEC takes the cost of added complexity to consumers into account, this could turn out to be a cheaper option than trying to &#8220;educate&#8221; people to understand intentionally confusing retail plans.<\/p>\n<h2>First They Should Make Retail Plans Simpler<\/h2>\n<p>The very first step the AEMC should take is to make retail electricity plans simpler to understand.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/electricity-discounts-gouging-mb0587\/\">Discounts should be eliminated<\/a> as they make it harder for people to work out what they are actually paying.\u00a0 Also, at the very least, supply charges should be fixed and identical on every single electricity plan available to a household so they can be more easily compared<sup class='endnote'><a href='https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/power-of-choice-costs\/#en-21446-4' id='enref-21446-4' onclick='return hhEndnotes_show(21446)'>4<\/a><\/sup>.<\/p>\n<h2>Fingers Crossed<\/h2>\n<p>I hope electricity plans will be simplified or, even better, electricity retailing in the current wasteful form experienced by most Australians will be eliminated.\u00a0 I also hope the AEMC will fully account for the costs their Power of Choice reforms are pushing onto consumers.\u00a0 But I\u2019m not 100% convinced the AEMC will get behind these ideas.\u00a0 This is because while they say their goal is to protect the long term interests of consumers, I find it difficult to believe we would be in the situation we are now if that was 100% true.<\/p>\n<p>Unless of course they define \u201clong term interests\u201d as reducing consumer wealth and attachment to material goods so they\u2019ll find it easier to get into heaven when they die.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week I wrote about the &#8220;Power of Choice&#8221; reforms that put electricity retailers in charge of electricity meters. 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