According to The Australian, the Australian Power Company has just announced a 19.9% increase in electricity prices in New South Wales (from July 1) in Victoria (starting January 1) and a 13.3% increase in natural gas prices! At this point, Australia's electricity price is at its highest level in history! twice as much as it was five years ago! three times as much as it was 10 years ago! When I saw the news, the editor quietly unplugged the power, picked up the computer and all portable battery, came to the library. Every year to the end of the fiscal year, we will always look forward to the new year has some good news, however, such as, often these heartache too bad news to breathe!
Up! Up! Up! The price increase was led by Energy Australia, saying it would cost a lot of money to build new energy plants because of the shutdown of coal plants. So it led to a huge increase in electricity tariffs! it started on July 1 by 19.9%! And then it's going to go up about 20% a year! What is the concept of a 20% annual increase? Using P. E. teachers to teach math, the editor calculated a year-on-year rise of 20%, a two-year rise of 44%, a three-year rise of 72%, and a four-year increase of 107%. The electricity bill will catch up with the current rent. This is like stealing money! Maybe people still don't know how rich they are! As early as five years ago, Australia, where we lived, was already the most expensive country in the world. Just half a month ago, electricity prices fell in China, where electricity was extremely scarce. Although the drop is only 1 cent, then at least it is also down! Let's see Australia again! But the electricity bill is more and more expensive year by year! Isn't Australia the world's energy powerhouse? Isn't Australia like the world exporting energy? Why Arab oil is cheaper than water, Australia electricity is more expensive than gold! The electricity bill in Australia is really a bottomless hole! Let's see how the Australian Power Company brought us to the pit step by step!
2011: carbon tax, electricity! in 2011, when Australia's first female Prime Minister Gillard began to implement a variety of environmental policies, including the "carbon tax"! Among other things, the most injured in the implementation of the carbon tax is ordinary people. The electricity bill has directly increased by more than 170 Australian dollars a year! Although we do not know how much this carbon tax has contributed to environmental protection, at least we know that this environmentally friendly pot is basically carried by ordinary people and self-employed people. The operating costs of carbon taxes are largely passed on to consumers. By 2014, every family in Australia will pay 288 Australian dollars more each year than in the past! in 2014, the carbon tax was abolished and electricity tariffs increased! Finally, in 2014, Albert's government lost sight of it, and decided to lighten the unnecessary burden for ordinary people and abolish the carbon tax! It was just when everyone thought the electricity bill was really going to go down. Pollution tax! It would have been expected to elect a new government, abolish the carbon tax, and cut electricity bills by a few cents. Suddenly, however, something called pollution tax popped up. Because the pollution tax is going to increase the electricity rate by another 5%!
In 2015, there was a surge in service charges! The electricity bill is up! As you may have noticed before, on our electricity bill, in addition to electricity and environmental charges, there is something called a service charge. This service charge is quite impressive. Account for more than half of the total electricity bill! This service charge includes the cost of building poles and pulling wires, which on average account for 53% of the total electricity bill! However, because of the Australian government's policy mistakes, the government spent 45 billion of its upgraded grid idle. Because many families installed air-conditioning, the Government originally thought that the electricity consumption of residents would increase sharply. It didn't! So the upgraded grid is wasted. But the money has been spent, the cost has to be collected back, so the electricity bill suddenly skyrocketed! It is estimated that households that use air conditioning more frequently have increased their electricity bills by $700 a year alone! The electricity bill is enough to buy an air-conditioner. In 2016, the power company filed a lawsuit, and the electricity bill rose! You might not have imagined that the huge costs of the power company's litigation would have to be borne by us. The electricity bill has skyrocketed year after year, so the Australian Energy Regulatory Authority has brought power companies and governments to court asking them to cut their electricity bills! However, the power company did not accept the war, unexpectedly won! The Australian tribunal ruled in favour of the government! It's not over yet. The Superintendency Authority and the Public interest lobbying Center ran out again to ask for another trial. If the regulator loses, the electricity bill will continue to rise sharply, and if the regulator wins, the tariff should reasonably be reduced. But the end result of this long-running lawsuit is that all costs of litigation will be passed on to consumers in the form of electricity bills.
In 2017, we will upgrade new energy sources and increase electricity tariffs! In a twinkling of an eye, when prices skyrocketed and everyone's wages were rising at a rapid rate, the electricity bill had unwittingly doubled. Let's see where the most expensive electricity bills are in the world. 1st place, Denmark 2nd place, Germany 3rd place, South Australia 4th place, New Zealand Province 5th place, Uygur Province 6th place, Western Australia. Four of the 10 most expensive places in the world are in Australia. I never knew I was such a haudio-videoe! This year, Australian power companies, like an agreement, have skyrocketed electricity prices! AGL announced a 16.1% increase in prices as of July 1! The average household has to pay an extra $300 a year for electricity! Engie said the shutdown of the Hazelwood coal-fired power plant in Victoria would lead to an average price increase of at least A $78 a year across Australia. The biggest thing is that Energy Australia, 's electricity bill went up 19.9% directly, because the coal power plant is gone. There will be a lot of investment in wind power, and the cost of generating electricity will rise! Prices will rise every year from now on, no less than 20%! It is up 20% a year, an unprecedented increase in prices. This for some small and medium-sized enterprises, self-employed, it is simply a disaster! According to The Australia estimates, light for a small self-employed person, a year may therefore increase the electricity bill of 915 Australian dollars! And for the average family, a year's electricity bill will be more than 320 Australian dollars! 1600 yuan. On the technology of raising the electricity bill, I only take Australia! In addition to the increase in electricity prices, natural gas prices also increased ah! 13.3% up! It's going up every year! Do you still think Australia's power companies are just doing it for the sake of environmental protection? We advise you to prepare your own quick-acting heart-saving pill before opening the electricity bill. I hope this winter in Australia won't be too cold because I can't afford long johns. Perhaps not too much, electricity and air in Australia is a luxury. Perhaps some powerful technology that opens up human civilization is about to return to the world again. Anyway, let's go pick out two sticks and put them at home!