{"id":34892,"date":"2019-11-12T06:56:56","date_gmt":"2019-11-11T20:26:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/?p=34892"},"modified":"2019-11-12T06:56:56","modified_gmt":"2019-11-11T20:26:56","slug":"victoria-electricity-costs-mb1288","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/victoria-electricity-costs-mb1288\/","title":{"rendered":"Higher Electricity Network Charges For Victorians In 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_34893\" style=\"width: 1210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-34893\" class=\"size-full wp-image-34893\" src=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/network-charges-victoria.jpg\" alt=\"Victorian electricity network charges\" width=\"1200\" height=\"630\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/network-charges-victoria.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/network-charges-victoria-300x158.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/network-charges-victoria-768x403.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/network-charges-victoria-1024x538.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-34893\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image: <a href=\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\/photos\/electric-powerline-power-1162913\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">patrickcmiller<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p>Victoria&#8217;s households and small businesses will be digging deeper into their pockets from January 1 next year to cover electricity network charges after a decision by the Australian Energy Regulator (AER).<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The AER announced yesterday it had approved increases for the state&#8217;s five <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/grid-connection\/\">Distributed Network Service Providers<\/a> (DNSPs). Network charges are the &#8220;poles and wires&#8221; component of an electricity bill, covering transmission and distribution costs of delivering electricity.<\/p>\n<p>The AER says among the reasons for the increases are rising Victorian land taxes and more electricity being delivered from interstate.<\/p>\n<p>The increases will be an unwelcome start to the new year for households, and even more unpleasant for small businesses. The Regulator estimates the following impact over 2020 through the increases:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>AusNet Services (Eastern Victoria) &#8211; residential $38.16, small business $130.02.<\/li>\n<li>CitiPower (Melbourne CBD) &#8211;\u00a0 residential $26.14, small business $115.00.<\/li>\n<li>Jemena (Western inner Melbourne) &#8211; residential $37.26, small business $200.89<\/li>\n<li>Powercor (Western Victoria) &#8211; residential $46.00, small business $99.28<\/li>\n<li>United Energy (South-east Melbourne and Mornington Peninsula) &#8211; residential $53.04, small business $212.27<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The AER also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aer.gov.au\/news-release\/aer-approves-victorian-electricity-network-charges-for-2020\">notes<\/a> overall revenues for AusNet, Jemena and Powercor have decreased over the 2016-20 period, while revenue for CitiPower and United Energy have increased &#8211; 0.88 per cent and 8.32 per cent respectively. It&#8217;s interesting United Energy has racked up the biggest increase in revenue over the period and has also been granted the largest increase in network charges from January.<\/p>\n<p>These hikes follow smaller increases in network charges from Ausnet, CitiPower, Powercor and United for households at the beginning of this year.<\/p>\n<h2>Zapping Electricity Bills With Solar Power<\/h2>\n<p>Network charges are another reason why installing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/solar-bigger-better\/\">bigger solar is usually better<\/a> rather than just sizing a system to cover electricity consumption.<\/p>\n<p>On a related note, the next release of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/victorian-solar-rebate.html\">Victoria&#8217;s solar rebates<\/a> for PV will kick off at 9AM next Monday (November 18). 3,250 rebates of up to $2,225 each have been scheduled for release, plus whatever is added on from expired applications associated with previous rounds.<\/p>\n<p>The PV aspect of Victoria&#8217;s Solar Homes program has been hugely popular, with more than 46,000 installations in the state since the program&#8217;s launch. The Andrews Government <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/victoria-solar-installations-mb1266\/\">says<\/a> 60,000 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/solar101.html\">solar power<\/a> system installations are expected in Victoria this year, compared to approximately 41,000 last year.<\/p>\n<p>While the rebates are only available to households, small businesses should give consideration to installing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/commercial-solar-guide.html\">commercial solar<\/a>, which has continued to drop in price and can offer a very rapid payback. Australia&#8217;s major subsidy, aka the &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/panels\/rebate\/\">solar rebate<\/a>&#8220;, is available for commercial installations and significantly reduces the up-front cost of installing solar panels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victoria&#8217;s households and small businesses will be digging deeper into their pockets from January 1 next year to cover electricity network charges after a decision by the Australian Energy Regulator (AER).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":34893,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[678],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-solar-battery-news","entry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.7 (Yoast SEO v27.7) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Higher Electricity Network Charges For Victorians In 2020<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Victoria&#039;s households and small businesses will be digging deeper into their pockets from January 1 next year to cover electricity network charges.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/victoria-electricity-costs-mb1288\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Higher Electricity Network Charges For Victorians In 2020\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Victoria&#039;s households and small businesses will be digging deeper into their pockets from January 1 next year to cover electricity network charges.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/victoria-electricity-costs-mb1288\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"SolarQuotes Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SolarQuotes\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2019-11-11T20:26:56+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/network-charges-victoria.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"630\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Michael Bloch\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@solar_quotes\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@solar_quotes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/victoria-electricity-costs-mb1288\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/victoria-electricity-costs-mb1288\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Michael Bloch\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/66afd571aa00c2e442f0192ebac2f6f1\"},\"headline\":\"Higher Electricity Network Charges For Victorians In 2020\",\"datePublished\":\"2019-11-11T20:26:56+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/victoria-electricity-costs-mb1288\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":431,\"commentCount\":2,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/victoria-electricity-costs-mb1288\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2019\\\/11\\\/network-charges-victoria.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"General Solar &amp; 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