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MEETING MEDIA RELEASE by the Casey & Cardinia Smartmeter Awareness Group –...
SMARTMETERS DAMAGING OUR FINANCIAL AND PHYSICAL HEALTH. Are you concerned about any of these issues? Your electricity bills going through the roof with the new Time of Use tariff. Health issues related...
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Record complaints made against power companies, Ombudsman reports | Herald Sun
RECORD numbers of complaints are being made against gas and electricity companies as they employ debt collectors to chase thousands of struggling customers over unpaid bills. The shocking extent of...
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Electrical industry calls for investigation into electricity prices
Today, peak Australian electrical industry body, the National Electrical and Communications Association (NECA), called on the Victorian Government to investigate electricity prices rises to provide...
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Flawed meters a dumb idea | Herald Sun
GEORGE Lawson says the only thing he has got out of having a smart meter is a bigger bill. Since one of the units was installed at his Canterbury home in February last year, his supply charges have...
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Smart meter technology to drive up the costs of power | Sydney...
THE cost of cooling your home and cooking dinner could double under a new Gillard government power proposal. Charging consumers more for electricity during the evening peak, and less at other times, is...
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Power surge to price surge: prepare for an expensive education, says expert
A normal meter (left) and smart meter. VICTORIANS need to urgently educate themselves about the looming surge in electricity prices this year, or face bills so high many will struggle to pay them, the...
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Bills from hi-tech devices silent on crucial power readings | Herald Sun
Smart meter customers are receiving bills missing the vital information about their power usage. Herald Sun SMART meter customers are being sent electricity bills missing details of meter readings,...
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Electricity billing errors a massive switch-off for customers | Herald Sun
Gillian Joyce with the $5482 bill. Picture: Mike Keating Herald Sun SHOCKED electricity customers are being overcharged as much as 1400 per cent due to billing blunders. Chirnside Park woman Gillian...
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Meter campaigner not convinced by debate | The Weekly Advertiser
By DEAN LAWSON Outspoken Wimmera anti-Smart Meters campaigner Di Bell believes months of in-depth discussion and debate has failed to unearth any convincing argument that the new household electrical...
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Not-so-smart meters costly | Herald Sun
HOUSEHOLDS FACE EXTRA SMART METER CHARGES OVER THE NEXT FOUR YEARS. HERALD SUN HOUSEHOLDS could be slugged up to $45 extra in smart meter charges over the next four years as a major distributor fights...
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Networked devices are energy hungry – G20 Summit
One of the recommendations of the recent G20 summit is that: “Participating countries will work together to accelerate the development of new ways to improve the energy efficiency of networked devices....
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Which meter do you trust?
Back in the good old days, before smart meters, before the privatisation of the Victorian Electrical system, there was the state government owned State Electricity Commission of Victoria. The SECV was...
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Life-support patient disconnected | Herald Sun
Energy retailers are wrongfully disconnecting electricity customers at a rate that is causing concern to the Essential Services Commission. Processes intended to protect customers from...
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Benefits??? of smart meters
In a return of the classic spin used to promote smart meters to Victorians six years ago, the Sydney Morning Herald is spruiking the supposed benefits of smart meters. But as Victorians who have had...
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May Day march 2016
Filed under: Bills Soar, control our individual appliances, Cost Blowout, Hacking, health, Public Demonstration, Smart Meter Tagged: May day march
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Horizon Power backs down on inflated bill
Horizon Power in Western Australia has eventually been ‘persuaded’ to adjust the exaggerated bill of a customer after being provided with irrefutable evidence of errors in the amount of electricity...
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