{"id":37040,"date":"2020-02-06T15:04:29","date_gmt":"2020-02-06T04:34:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/?p=37040"},"modified":"2025-12-19T13:02:44","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T03:32:44","slug":"victorian-energy-compare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/victorian-energy-compare\/","title":{"rendered":"Victorians Can Get $50 From The Victorian Energy Compare Website Because We Are A Nation Of Idiots"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_37128\" style=\"width: 1210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-37128\" class=\"wp-image-37128 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/50-dollars.jpg\" alt=\"Victorian Energy Compare website $50 bribe\" width=\"1200\" height=\"628\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/50-dollars.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/50-dollars-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/50-dollars-1024x536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/50-dollars-768x402.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-37128\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Victorians can get $50 from the Victorian Energy Compare website until the 30th of June 2020 because they&#8217;d rather waste money on bribes than allow real competition.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>If you live in Victoria and have an electricity or gas account in your name, you can get $50 from the Victorian Government.\u00a0 Why are they handing out $50 to every household that asks for it? <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Because comparing electricity plans is difficult and rather than take the obvious step of making them easier to compare, they have decided to take the ridiculous step of bribing households with a total of up to $130 million to notice that the <a href=\"https:\/\/compare.energy.vic.gov.au\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Victorian Energy Compare site<\/a> happens to exist.<\/p>\n<p>In my opinion this is incredibly stupid.\u00a0 On the other hand, fifty bucks is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=xF0r9KGnDW0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">fifty bucks<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>Things Used To Be Different<\/h2>\n<p>When I was a lad, back in the Pleistocene, choosing an electricity retailer was easy.\u00a0 There was only one retailer.<sup class='endnote'><a href='https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/victorian-energy-compare\/#en-37040-1' id='enref-37040-1' onclick='return hhEndnotes_show(37040)'>1<\/a><\/sup>\u00a0 If you wanted electricity you called them on a phone with a spring-loaded <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=PuYPOC-gCGA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">rotary dial<\/a> and, as long as it was local call, it would cost you around 87 cents in today&#8217;s money.\u00a0 There was no choosing between a vast array of retailer electricity plans.\u00a0 The only choice was between having electricity and not having electricity.<\/p>\n<p>Nowadays things aren&#8217;t so easy for the majority of the population.\u00a0 In the following locations millions toil and suffer under the tyranny of having to choose electricity plans:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The ACT: 427,000<\/li>\n<li>NSW: 8,100,000<\/li>\n<li>South Australia: 1,750,000<\/li>\n<li>South East Queensland: 5,100,000<\/li>\n<li>Victoria: 6,600,000<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That&#8217;s 22 million out of 25.6 million on the continent &#8212; or paddling next to it in the summer &#8212; who bear the indignity of having electricity retailer choice forced upon them.\u00a0 Around 86% of us are made to choose between plans that are deliberately difficult to compare due to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Varying daily supply charges, and&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>Discounts, membership fees, and other charges.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Despite some <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2019-07-15\/energy-prices-on-the-rise-depite-reregulation-of-the-market\/11299192\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">piss weak attempts<\/a> to make things easier for consumers, there has been little improvement and regulators seem okay with the introduction of &#8220;membership fees&#8221; and other charges; so I don&#8217;t know if regulator hands will ever be free from the stain of stupidity.<\/p>\n<h2>It Should Be A Lot Simpler<\/h2>\n<p>If the Victorian Government wanted to make things easy for people it just has to make two simple changes:<sup class='endnote'><a href='https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/victorian-energy-compare\/#en-37040-2' id='enref-37040-2' onclick='return hhEndnotes_show(37040)'>2<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>\u00a0Make the daily supply charge for every plan the same.\u00a0 I think <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/supply-charges\/\">zero cents per day<\/a> would be best, but if that&#8217;s not possible the lower the better.<\/li>\n<li>End all discounts, membership fees, and other charges so the only price difference between plans is what is charged per kilowatt-hour.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Households on a standard tariff who pay a flat rate for electricity would only have to look at single number to see which is the cheapest plan, or two numbers if they have a controlled load for hot water or other use.<sup class='endnote'><a href='https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/victorian-energy-compare\/#en-37040-3' id='enref-37040-3' onclick='return hhEndnotes_show(37040)'>3<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n<p>Homes with time-of-use tariffs would have three numbers to compare &#8212; peak, shoulder, and off-peak rates.\u00a0 This way it will be easy for people to see which retail electricity plan is the cheapest and either choose that one &#8211; or go with another retailer if they happen to really like the logo a more expensive retailer puts on their bills or are particularly in love with the call centre that answers the phone.<\/p>\n<p>This would introduce real competition into the electricity retail market, which hasn&#8217;t existed in the roughly 20 years retailer choice has been around because electricity plans are too confusing to be easily compared.\u00a0 One of the reasons we were given for introducing retailer choice was it would increase competition.\u00a0 I think that, given we&#8217;ve had 2 decades of inadequate retail electricity competition, we should give it a go and see what it&#8217;s like.<\/p>\n<p>One more change that should be made to keep electricity bills simple is:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0Apart from receiving a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/systems\/feed-in-tariffs\/\">solar feed-in tariff<\/a>, solar households should be treated exactly the same as non-solar households.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There&#8217;s no good justification to make electricity plans more complex just because a home has solar panels any more than there is because a home installs an air conditioner,<sup class='endnote'><a href='https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/victorian-energy-compare\/#en-37040-4' id='enref-37040-4' onclick='return hhEndnotes_show(37040)'>4<\/a><\/sup> puts in insulation, or replaces an electric stove with a gas one.<\/p>\n<h2>The $50 Is A Bribe To Increase Competition<\/h2>\n<p>The reason why the Victorian Government is handing out $50 to every household in the state with an electricity or gas bill that asks for it, is to bribe people to notice the Victorian Energy Compare site in the hope they will use it to compare electricity and gas plans and get a better deal.<\/p>\n<p>In other words, they have probably spent millions making this site and are now handing out up to $130 million in $50 &#8220;look at me&#8221; payments so people will actually use it.\u00a0 This is nuts compared to simply requiring electricity plans be easy to compare and allowing competition to work the way it&#8217;s supposed to.<\/p>\n<h2>The $50 Payments Are A Transfer Not A Cost<\/h2>\n<p>If every household in Victoria bothers to claim the $50 then the total paid out will come to around $127 million.\u00a0 But, in case you&#8217;re having a heart attack over the amount of money wasted, I&#8217;ll point out it is a transfer and not a cost so it&#8217;s not as bad as it seems.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a transfer because rather than being spent, the money is being moved around.\u00a0 It&#8217;s being taken from some Victorians and given to others.\u00a0 A portion of that $127 million will be wasted in the process of moving it around but most of it will end up in someone&#8217;s pocket.\u00a0 This means they are only wasting millions of dollars, not over one hundred million.\u00a0 It&#8217;s not the same as if they were spending it on it on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kotaku.com.au\/2017\/11\/meet-the-19-year-old-who-spent-over-17000-on-microtransactions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">power ups for Farmville<\/a> or giving Disney a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arts.gov.au\/funding-and-support\/tax-rebates-film-and-television-producers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">massive subsidy<\/a> to make computer generated images of people in tights punching each other here.<\/p>\n<h2>How To Get The $50<\/h2>\n<p>To get $50 for noticing the Victorian Energy Compare site exists, you have to go to the Victorian Energy Compare site and upload your electricity bill.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s a picture of the page you&#8217;ll need to go to:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-37074 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/50bucks.png\" alt=\"$50 power saving bonus - Victorian Energy Compare\" width=\"1336\" height=\"827\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/50bucks.png 1336w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/50bucks-300x186.png 300w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/50bucks-1024x634.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/50bucks-768x475.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1336px) 100vw, 1336px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a link that will take you <a href=\"https:\/\/powersavingbonus.energy.vic.gov.au\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">directly to that page<\/a>, but you&#8217;re not allowed to use it.\u00a0 That would be cheating.\u00a0 You have to start at <a href=\"https:\/\/compare.energy.vic.gov.au\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">this page<\/a> and earn the $50 by using the energy compare site as though you seriously want to compare plans<sup class='endnote'><a href='https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/victorian-energy-compare\/#en-37040-5' id='enref-37040-5' onclick='return hhEndnotes_show(37040)'>5<\/a><\/sup> until this comes up:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-37073\" src=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/clickmepleeeezzze.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"354\" height=\"211\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/clickmepleeeezzze.jpg 354w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/clickmepleeeezzze-300x179.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 354px) 100vw, 354px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This will take you to the disclaimer page shown above where you will <strong>have to scroll down<\/strong> <strong>to the bottom,<\/strong> otherwise it won&#8217;t let you proceed.\u00a0 If you don&#8217;t pretend you&#8217;ve read the conditions by scrolling down you won&#8217;t get the money.<\/p>\n<p>Lie about having read the conditions and click &#8220;Next&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-37075\" src=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/next.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"236\" height=\"94\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;and you&#8217;ll be given an option to upload an electronic PDF version of your electricity bill.\u00a0 If you don&#8217;t have a PDF of your electricity bill and only have a paper bill, you can click on &#8220;I don&#8217;t have a PDF bill&#8221; and you&#8217;ll be asked to enter a whole heap of details:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-37076 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/confirm.png\" alt=\"Confirm electricity account details - Victorian Energy Compare website\" width=\"805\" height=\"461\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/confirm.png 805w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/confirm-300x172.png 300w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/confirm-768x440.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 805px) 100vw, 805px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, all the non-obvious information should be on your electricity bill.<\/p>\n<p>If you only have a gas bill you can still get $50 but you&#8217;ll have to email:<\/p>\n<p>info.vec@delwp.vic.gov.au<\/p>\n<p>And ask them what you need to do to claim it.\u00a0 If you have a gas and an electricity account you can&#8217;t get two <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=QAcQZruv3Vc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">fitty<\/a> dollah payments as there is a limit of one per household.<\/p>\n<p>The $50 payment can&#8217;t be claimed by businesses as it&#8217;s only available for residences and will be available until the 30th of June 2020.<\/p>\n<h2>Enjoy<\/h2>\n<p>That&#8217;s all.\u00a0 If this information prompts you to get the $50 payment, I hope you enjoy it.\u00a0 Or at least I hope you enjoy what&#8217;s left after you send me the 10% finder&#8217;s fee.\u00a0 If you&#8217;d rather not send me a finder&#8217;s fee, you can instead send me what I actually deserve.\u00a0 You can do this by holding your hand in front of your screen, clenching your fingers into a fist, and then extending your index finger.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you live in Victoria and have an electricity or gas account in your name, you can get $50 from the Victorian Government.\u00a0 Why are they handing out $50 to every household that asks for it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":37128,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":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":""},"categories":[636],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-electricity-prices","entry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.4 (Yoast SEO v27.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Victorians Can Get $50 From The Victorian Energy Compare Website<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Victorians who upload an electricity bill can get $50 from the government. 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