Www.originenergy.com.au/files/13_03_International_Roadshow_Presentation.pdf. Energy Monitor - In Home Display. See how much electricity you’re using within seconds with our Energy Monitor in-home display.
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Choose to see your energy now, today, this week or this month. My AGL IQ and eWise tools help families curb power use. Hugo and Filiz Karahan, along with their children (left to right) Rasul, 18, Kadir, 23 and Adem, 22, who are using My AGL IQ to cut energy use at their Melbourne home.
Picture: Tim Carrafa Source: News Limited FIND out how to save on your energy bills by completing the My Energy IQ Quiz at www.news.com.au/myenergyiq, and be in the running to win a year's supply of free energy from AGL. Prize available in NSW, SA, QLD and VIC. WE'VE compared lawns and cars with our neighbours' for generations - now energy companies are tapping in to the notion of "keeping up with the Joneses" to help households in keeping down their energy bills. Power retailers have launched customer tools that draw on behavioural science research which has found people are much more likely to reduce their electricity consumption when told their neighbours are already doing so than they are when urged to protect the environment - or that doing so will save money. It also allows for analysis of usage. Origin Energy chief Grant King blames rising power prices on poor policy.
AGL Energy. AGL-Submission.pdf.
PM - Power company accepts it breached consumer law 21/05/2013. DAVID MARK: The energy company AGL has been fined more than one-and-a-half million dollars for engaging door-to-door salesmen who used lies and tricks to persuade people to change electricity providers.
The marketing company involved, CPM, has also been fined. CPM says it was an isolated incident and insists its salesman saved the customer $120 on his power bill. Simon Lauder reports. SIMON LAUDER: The Federal Court has ordered AGL to pay $1.55 million for breaching Australian consumer law in two separate incidents involving door-to-door sales in Victoria and South Australia. The chairman of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, Rod Sims: ROD SIMS: AGL representatives knocking on people's doors, they engaged in false and misleading representations.
SIMON LAUDER: The marketing company engaged by AGL has also been fined $200,000. SIMON LAUDER: Sounds like he was basically trying to use lies and tricks to make a sale. He says AGL's fine should serve as a warning to the industry. Origin Energy. Origin 2012_Annual_Report.pdf. Origin_Energy_Half_Year_2013.pdf.
Origin Energy to provide free in-home displays. Phil Craig, Executive GM, Origin Energy Sydney, Australia — (METERING.COM) — June 14, 2013 – Sydney based Origin Energy is to supply a free in-home display to customers in Victoria with a smart meter who sign up to the company’s Smart DailySaver rate plan.
In addition customers will get up to 10 percent discount on their electricity usage charges for 12 months. The device, which Origin Energy says has a value of Au$150 (US$144), connects wirelessly to the smart meter and with its color display shows electricity usage and costs, as well as historical data. Customers participating in the new net metering scheme also gain information on their PV feed-in. “The displays are one of the first tangible, hands-on benefits of smart meters,” Origin executive general manager Phil Craig told the local Herald Sun.
With a magnetic backing the display can be placed on a fridge or moved from room to room as required. Origin-Submission.pdf. EnergyAustralia. EnergyAustralia facing 'difficult' conditions. China Light and Power has warned that its EnergyAustralia unit is facing continued "difficult" trading conditions, with little respite expected anytime soon.
"Market conditions in Australia remain difficult," the Hong Kong company told shareholders in a quarterly trading update on Monday. "Suppressed wholesale prices, declining energy demand, regulatory uncertainty and intense retail competition are continuing to exert considerable pressure on the financial performance of the business. " Along with Origin Energy and AGL, EnergyAustralia is one of the three largest integrated power utilities in Australia, operating a suite of power stations along with holding around a quarter of the electricity market. With ongoing trading difficulties, the focus remains on cutting costs and boosting operating efficiencies as it continues to seek to work through the implications of "lower wholesale prices and reduced electricity demand".
Energy Australia - Annual Report 2009/10. TRUenergy-Submission.pdf. Energy Retailer's Association of Australia. ERAA People.