Households to pay $1.5 billion in compensation to power plants - Sydney Morning Herald

The cost of avoiding blackouts in last month’s energy market chaos will be spread across all households and businesses, but those who can least afford it will likely pay more.

Households will pay an average of up to $70 each when the cost of last months extraordinary electricity market intervention flows through to retail bills, but the division of the payments has prompte… [+1965 chars]

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