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New regulations expose energy price gouging through 'free' comparison sites

  • Written by Bruce Mountain, Director, Victoria Energy Policy Centre, Victoria University
Consumers who used comparison sites typically paid 5-12% more than the lowest possible offer.Yung Chang/Unsplash, CC BY-SA

A new regulation has highlighted the thousands of offers electricity retailers make to new customers, mostly through commercial comparison sites. These sites typically do not include the best possible offers, funnelling...

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