You might have caught up with the news, broken by the Sunday Herald Sun, that more than 285,000 Victorian households will be getting a refund on their electricity bills. The Andrews Government announced that at least $71 million in refunds would start to be returned to eligible customers from January 1. So, who’s getting some… Read More
How ACCC Inquiry Helps with Electricity Prices
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission’s (ACCC) is looking into electricity pricing and we’re definitely paying attention! A couple of months ago, after gathering data from dozens of different sources – including businesses involved in all aspects of the electricity generation and supply industry – the Commission released a 175-page preliminary report of its Retail… Read More
How Victoria’s Electricity Prices Compare | GloBird Energy
We’ve spent the past couple of posts looking at aspects of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission’s (ACCC) preliminary report of its Retail Electricity Pricing Inquiry, firstly summarising some of the most significant things the report had found and then digging a bit deeper into what the inquiry had identified as the main reasons for… Read More
What the ACCC Report Reveals on Electricity Pricing
In our last post, we told you that the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) had released a preliminary report of its Retail Electricity Pricing Inquiry, and we had an initial look at the most significant things the report had found. Now we’re going to start digging a bit deeper, starting with some of the things… Read More
Why Australian energy prices keep going up
A few weeks ago, we responded to the recently-released report from the Victorian Government’s review of the state’s electricity market. We were quite happy to put our hand up and say we agree with nine of the 11 recommendations of the Thwaites Review. Now the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has released the preliminary… Read More
Keeping things simple means keeping costs down
When we decided to start GloBird Energy we knew we had to get two things right: the technical side and the human side (you can read more about that in this previous post). Those two elements intersect when it comes to the plans we offer. Firstly, we were determined to make them as good or… Read More