Why are Australians paying too much for power?

The three reasons your bill keeps climbing

The loyalty tax. Retailers reserve their sharpest prices for new customers. Stay on the same plan and your rates quietly drift upward, so long-standing customers routinely pay hundreds a year more than someone who signed up today — for exactly the same electricity.

Bills built to confuse. Supply charges, usage tiers, demand, controlled load, feed-in: it’s almost impossible to tell from your bill alone whether your plan is actually a good deal. That complexity is not an accident.

“Free” comparison that isn’t. Many comparison sites only show the handful of retailers that pay them a commission, so they’re built to steer you rather than to find you the genuinely cheapest plan.

What to do about your bill

You don’t have to read the headlines and feel stuck. EnergySorted reads your real usage from a bill you already have, costs every plan the regulator publishes against it, and proves the cheapest one to within a few percent of what you actually pay — then keeps watching, so you’re told the day a cheaper deal lands. We take zero retailer commissions, so we answer only to you.

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