{"id":229954,"date":"2019-03-01T16:56:56","date_gmt":"2019-03-01T06:56:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/?p=229954"},"modified":"2019-03-01T16:56:56","modified_gmt":"2019-03-01T06:56:56","slug":"household-power-bills-to-drop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2019\/03\/01\/household-power-bills-to-drop\/","title":{"rendered":"Household Power Bills To Drop"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>
Energy Minister Dr Anthony Lynham<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

March 1, 2019<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ergon Energy power bills could drop by $58\u00a0 – and $180 for small businesses – next year.<\/p>\n

The independent Queensland Competition Authority (QCA) issued its draft determination for regional power prices this week.<\/p>\n

Energy Minister Dr Anthony Lynham said the\u00a0QCA was expecting prices to fall because more renewable energy was coming on line, making wholesale prices cheaper.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s good news for regional households and small businesses,” Dr Lynham said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe QCA is forecasting that for a second year in a row household bills will decrease.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe good news also extends to our business and industry, with annual bills for large businesses expected to decrease by about 14.2 per cent.\u201d<\/p>\n

However, there’s no joy for the rural sector with farming and irrigation tariffs remaining unchanged.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The QCA determines regional prices based on prices in the south-east Queensland market.<\/p>\n

The State Government then subsidises regional electricity bills under its uniform tariff policy to ensure regional customers pay equivalent costs to south-east Queensland customers.<\/p>\n

In 2018-19, this subsidy totalled almost $500 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ergon Energy power bills could drop by $58\u00a0 – and $180 for small businesses – next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":158370,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,3],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\nHousehold Power Bills To Drop - southburnett.com.au<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Ergon Energy power bills could drop by $58\u00a0 - and $180 for small businesses - next year.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2019\/03\/01\/household-power-bills-to-drop\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Household Power Bills To Drop - southburnett.com.au\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Ergon Energy power bills could drop by $58\u00a0 - and $180 for small businesses - next year.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2019\/03\/01\/household-power-bills-to-drop\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"southburnett.com.au\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2019-03-01T06:56:56+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/anthony-lynham-f.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"300\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Anne Miller\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Anne Miller\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2019\/03\/01\/household-power-bills-to-drop\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2019\/03\/01\/household-power-bills-to-drop\/\",\"name\":\"Household Power Bills To Drop - southburnett.com.au\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2019-03-01T06:56:56+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2019-03-01T06:56:56+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/#\/schema\/person\/d43a5027bdddc95f54e9c6274d8a57ae\"},\"description\":\"Ergon Energy power bills could drop by $58\u00a0 - and $180 for small businesses - next year.\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-AU\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2019\/03\/01\/household-power-bills-to-drop\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/\",\"name\":\"southburnett.com.au\",\"description\":\"Kingaroy and South Burnett News\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-AU\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/#\/schema\/person\/d43a5027bdddc95f54e9c6274d8a57ae\",\"name\":\"Anne Miller\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/author\/anne-miller\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Household Power Bills To Drop - southburnett.com.au","description":"Ergon Energy power bills could drop by $58\u00a0 - and $180 for small businesses - next year.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2019\/03\/01\/household-power-bills-to-drop\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Household Power Bills To Drop - southburnett.com.au","og_description":"Ergon Energy power bills could drop by $58\u00a0 - and $180 for small businesses - next year.","og_url":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2019\/03\/01\/household-power-bills-to-drop\/","og_site_name":"southburnett.com.au","article_published_time":"2019-03-01T06:56:56+00:00","og_image":[{"width":"300","height":"200","url":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/anthony-lynham-f.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Anne Miller","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Anne Miller","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2019\/03\/01\/household-power-bills-to-drop\/","url":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2019\/03\/01\/household-power-bills-to-drop\/","name":"Household Power Bills To Drop - southburnett.com.au","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/#website"},"datePublished":"2019-03-01T06:56:56+00:00","dateModified":"2019-03-01T06:56:56+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/#\/schema\/person\/d43a5027bdddc95f54e9c6274d8a57ae"},"description":"Ergon Energy power bills could drop by $58\u00a0 - and $180 for small businesses - next year.","inLanguage":"en-AU","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2019\/03\/01\/household-power-bills-to-drop\/"]}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/#website","url":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/","name":"southburnett.com.au","description":"Kingaroy and South Burnett News","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-AU"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/#\/schema\/person\/d43a5027bdddc95f54e9c6274d8a57ae","name":"Anne Miller","url":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/author\/anne-miller\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229954"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229954"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":229973,"href":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229954\/revisions\/229973"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}