Electricity Prices

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From the Consumer Article " The regulations were meant to help low-income households.ÔÇ» However, they have had the unintended consequence of penalising many of them.ÔÇ» This is because many low-income households have no choice but to use a lot of power ÔÇô such as those with a lot of people living under the same roof or in houses with poor insulation. These households pay the higher fixed rate, as well as having a big bill for all the power they have to use"┬á

I'm actually inclined to think that these folks would probably be better off on the standard user plans, not really a low use household anymore...

The gist of what I got from the article was that because of the decline in power usage per household over the last 20 years, there was now something like 60% of households qualifying as 'low use', which would seem to undermine the purpose of it.  

Maybe there was an argument for reviewing the criteria for 'low user' idk