The Australian Energy Market Commission has signalled a revamp of electricity pricing rules.The commission is set to introduce new protections for consumers whose tariffs are being changed.
Ms Collyer is due to present the keynote speech at the Australian Energy Week conference in Melbourne, where she will acknowledge worries about the pace and nature of electricity tariff reforms. From a system where consumers predominantly paid a flat rate, which cost them the same amount for a unit of electricity no matter when they bought it from the grid, users were being shifted on to far more complicated charges.
Moreover, she said meters gave consumers the ability to save money by giving households much better visibility of when and how they were using power. To that end, Ms Collyer said the commission was proposing new rules that would help protect households affected by tariff reform.