{"id":25279,"date":"2018-10-29T15:46:37","date_gmt":"2018-10-29T05:16:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/?p=25279"},"modified":"2020-04-29T17:18:22","modified_gmt":"2020-04-29T06:48:22","slug":"amber-electric-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/amber-electric-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Amber Electric: Buy & Sell Your Electricity At Wholesale Prices? Not Quite…"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Amber Electric review: low prices and moderate solar feed-in tariff, but\u00a0could be the best retailer for battery owners.<\/p><\/div>\n

As I’m sure you’re aware, in this country we pay through the nose for grid power.\u00a0 Electricity bills are so high I’m surprised the police aren’t required to random drug test them.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Using the SolarQuotes electricity retailer comparison tool<\/a> I looked up the cheapest retail plan available in Adelaide and found it charges 33.4 cents per kilowatt-hour.\u00a0 Add in supply charges for a home that uses 5,000 kilowatt-hours of grid electricity a year and it comes to a total of 38.7 cents per kilowatt-hour.<\/p>\n

\"Cheapest<\/p>\n

If you stole a generator from a hospital or orphanage that amount might be all you’d need to spend on diesel to make your own power1<\/a><\/sup>.\u00a0 Fortunately for the energy security of hospitals and orphanages across the state, a new, relatively low cost, electricity retailer has just started operating in South Australia.\u00a0 It’s called Amber Electric<\/a> and is already available in the Ausgrid network that covers eastern Sydney and Newcastle.<\/p>\n

They say they can provide electricity in SA for an average of 29.2 cents per kilowatt-hour (37 cents per kilowatt-hour with supply charges).<\/p>\n

\"Amber<\/p>\n

You may not find this too impressive since it’s only about 4% less than the cheapest plan.\u00a0 But I haven’t told you what’s cool about it yet.<\/p>\n