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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

Can you just tell me how much electricity costs?

This is far and away the most common question people ask and it’s no surprise that they get (more) frustrated when we can’t give them a simple answer. They expect us to be able to say “27 cents per kWh” or “32 cents per kWh” or something equally definitive and understandable. But, unfortunately, it isn’t... Read More