Guess who pays for extraordinary profits in electricity supply game

Andrew Marshall
Updated August 22 2017 - 2:43pm, first published 6:30am
In several states consumers are likely to be paying dearly for exceptional profits reaped by power network operators.
In several states consumers are likely to be paying dearly for exceptional profits reaped by power network operators.

Your spiralling electricity bill is due to many factors, including recent power plant closures, gas shortages and ageing generation plants, but in several states there’s a fair chance consumers also pay dearly for huge profits reaped by power network operators.

Andrew Marshall

Andrew Marshall

National agribusiness writer

Andrew Marshall is the group agribusiness writer for ACM's state agricultural weeklies and websites. He is a former editor at The Land and has worked in various Rural Press group roles in Canberra, North Richmond (NSW) and Toowoomba (Qld).

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