Tribunal member Sandra Gamble says embedded network customers ‘need protections from unreasonably high prices’
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The utilities regulator in New South Wales will begin a review into the pricing of private energy networks and also whether new hot and chilled water services should be banned.
The review by the Independent Pricing and Regulatory Tribunal (Ipart) follows a NSW upper house inquiry last year that heard evidence about “significant consumer issues” involving embedded networks supplying electricity, hot water and gas.
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