Is being loyal to your business’ energy provider costing you? The quick answer to that question is: if you’re on a default pricing offer then, yes, it can be. Let’s get …
Is your loyalty costing you?
Summer is coming: Do high temperatures mean high electricity bills?
Summertime is fast-approaching; time for the beach, barbecues, and sunny skies. Unfortunately, it’s also the time for increased temperatures and sky-rocketing summer electricity bills. You may have noticed that your …
How reliability drives price in our electricity market
The failure of the 500-Megawatt Basslink cable, AGL’s Loy Yang A and the Mortlake gas power station in Victoria has sparked more volatility in the electricity spot price market, and …
Shocked by your commercial electricity bills?
Has your business’ electricity bill ever caused you to sweat bullets? If your answer is “Yes,” then you’ve experienced energy bill shock. But just because it’s more than what you …
We have lost 17% of the Amazon Rainforest
The Amazon rainforest fires in South America have sparked intense debate on the way the world approaches the concept of development. The Amazon rainforest covers 5,500,000 km² and produces roughly …
Network tariffs: Everything you need to know.
Electricity bills, with their network tariffs and various charges, are complicated. So, of course, it can be tempting to skip directly to the total due. However, if you can spare …
Q2 Electricity prices: Wholesale energy up 8% over 2018
Q2 2019 Electricity Prices: Wholesale electricity and gas prices are up 8 percent over the same quarter last year despite a large increase in solar and wind generation across the …
Negawatts: Selling negative electricity consumption into the wholesale market
An exciting proposal has been put forward by the Australian Energy Market Commission to allow businesses to sell their curtailed energy demand – negawatts – into the wholesale power market …
What is the solar minimum and how does it affect rooftop solar generation?
If you open any scientific news website, you will be inundated by articles about reduced activity preceding the 2020 solar minimum, but rightly so the question many businesses are asking …
Electricity prices in Australia in 2019: Where are we at?
A few years ago, Leading Edge Energy drew up an article about how Australians were paying some of the highest electricity prices in the world. This was especially true in …
