{"id":1037,"date":"2025-03-13T03:30:27","date_gmt":"2025-03-13T03:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/australians-urged-to-shop-around-as-power-prices-set-to-rise-up-to-9-from-july\/"},"modified":"2025-03-13T03:30:27","modified_gmt":"2025-03-13T03:30:27","slug":"australians-urged-to-shop-around-as-power-prices-set-to-rise-up-to-9-from-july","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/australians-urged-to-shop-around-as-power-prices-set-to-rise-up-to-9-from-july\/","title":{"rendered":"Australians urged to shop around as power prices set to rise up to 9% from July"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Government encourages households to search for better offers as default prices rise on higher generation and transmission costs<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/live\/2025\/mar\/13\/australia-news-live-energy-prices-cost-of-living-tariffs-steel-aluminium-election-anthony-albanese-peter-dutton-ntwnfb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Get our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/email-newsletters?CMP=cvau_sfl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">breaking news email<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/app.adjust.com\/w4u7jx3\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">free app<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/series\/full-story?CMP=cvau_sfl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">daily news podcast<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Hundreds of thousands of households face higher power bills as the energy regulator has proposed lifting benchmark prices by up to 9% in some regions.<\/p>\n<p>The government has conceded power bills are \u201ctoo high\u201d and urged users to shop around for the best deal in response to the proposed changes.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/email-newsletters?CMP=copyembed\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up for Guardian Australia\u2019s breaking news email<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2025\/mar\/13\/power-prices-bills-9-july-increase-australia-compare\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Government encourages households to search for better offers as default prices rise on higher generation and transmission costs Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Hundreds of thousands of households face higher power bills as the energy regulator has proposed lifting benchmark [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1038,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fast-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-10-25 14:46:28","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}