Has anyone used the site below to compare prices after 1 July following the increase in prices?
https://www.energymadeeasy.gov.au
Its a dud as the pricing for Sumo and Red Energy isn't even updated. In particular for Red shows 85c daily charge when it is now $1.50. Usage charge isn't right either.
I'd assumed it would be up to date by now seeing as it should be run by a government regulator but its not the case. Are there alternatives to this site?
Price comparison sites can only pull data from their website directly, and if the coding is right, it will show correct data.
With these comparison sites, usually they're pretty accurate but I noticed people will always need to have some manual research, such as you did - go to the actual website, enter your details and see the true rates.
That's why I use these sites as a guide only.
That is usually the case with comparison websites but Energy Made Easy is run by the regulator and energy companies are required by law to participate and ensure that the data is up to date.
The initial estimates given compared to the pricing once I visit the company's site are wildly different. Pretty useless site.
This was my exact experience too.
Red shows 85c daily charge when it is now $1.50.
I just moved to a red energy plan that is 87c daily charge so maybe that is the right one for your region?
I think the issue is the gov site vs the company site is very different as per comment I just made above. Completely unreliable estimates until I enter my address.
…….until I enter my address.
Um, hate to say, but duh? You're not going to get a proper estimate without it knowing your distributor and meter tariff…
So what's the point of asking for a postcode initially? Might as well not ask. Why even waste tax payer money on a site that isn't even useful?
@Pufff: Right after it asks for your postcode, and BEFORE it shows you pricing, it asks for your NMI. You deliberately or dumbly skipped that.
@Typical16-bitEnjoyer: Postcode is before NMI. Plus it wont let me use it cause it says there is less than 12 months data.
Its a bit shite…
I use them as a guide, then go to retailer's website and then excel calcs to work out the best plan :)
Here is another one, that I would use as a guide only too but it has a better layout or pricing
The shitty thing about that comparison website is that it doesn't give you the correct/available tarrifs for your property. It might rank say Sumo or Origin as the cheapest, but when you sign up with the company they be like "oh, we can only offer you a time of use tarrif that's double the price"… whilst another retailer will be like "sure, we can bill you a single rate tarrif"
I ended up just making a spreadsheet and manually pulling prices from all/most of the companies shown by the energymadeeasy website
Thats right. Some people can't seem to understand something so basic.
Its a waste of everyone's time and money.
They do if you do you research/know your available tariffs then filter proper on the EMEA site. You can also request a tariff change through your energy provider (provided that tariff is available).
Request a tarrif change my ass. The wholesaler is charging the energy retailer based on real time demand. Thus, it's in their best interest to only offer you a time of use rate + demand charges ontop. If not then why the big push for smart meters that can read and report back to base every 15 or 30 minutes? It's costing these electrcity companies alot of money to change these meters for free.
And also apply a proper filter my ass… same address, same electrcity meter, same wholesaler, Dodo and Origin says I can be billed a single rate tarrif, every other company says I can only be billed TOU + demand charges (then blaming it on the wholesaler setting my offered tarrif type when it's actually the retailer themselves)
You need to apply the filter in the left on EMEA site based on what you know about your meter. It doesn't do that for you unfortunately.
I personally had to go through all this recently and argued with OVO for many weeks about their upcoming pricing structure and trying to get pricing from 1 July for their other tariffs. They obviously had a LOT of similar requests because they didn't comprehend what I was asking, nor were able to answer it after 6 weeks of clearly explaining it to them. In the end, I had to write my own SQL script that could pull my historical energy data from Home Assistant to plug into a spreadsheet of all the market offers to find the best deal for me. EMEA is good, but I needed great.
And I'm well aware that retailers are being charged at TOU/Demand rates, which is generally why (when they offer it) the switch to flat rate is always a much higher daily access charge and generally pretty high usage rate.
Interestingly enough (and I'm sure to the chagrin of all QLD energy retailers), Energex publish their wholesale prices, so if you felt inclined, you could find out exactly how much each energy retailer is ripping you off.
@trankillity: I agree, surely it's a process that both EMEA and retailers can make more streamlined if they actually tried
7 Days I lasted with Sumo lying C@$ts they sent email after they secured the deal prices have gone up 30%.
They will lie and F you over. I'll treat them the same.
Same happened here, and left immediately. Clearly they've had it a lot as the phone call was over in less than 30 seconds with no attempt to convince me to stay
This site is a crock. It doesn't allow for folk with remote meters. Companies restrict plan options if you have one of those emeters. (I am in NSW) I have had friends put in details who don't live far away and results differ all over the shop.
Seems the way of the world is how best to fk people over. Imagine ISPs charging based on usage.
Well there are penalties for retailers if their information on it is not up to date. Make a complaint if you think this is the case. Its not up to the AER who runs the site to keep the info up to date but retailers.