{"id":28849,"date":"2017-10-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-30T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/energy-minister-has-some-advice-for-reducing-your-power-bill\/"},"modified":"2017-10-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-10-30T00:00:00","slug":"energy-minister-has-some-advice-for-reducing-your-power-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/show\/energy-minister-has-some-advice-for-reducing-your-power-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Energy Minister Has Some Advice For Reducing Your Power Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Energy minister Tom Koutsantonis issued a warning on FIVEAA breakfast to \u201csticky\u201d power customers.<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><h3>\u201cThere are people who &#8212; since the privatisation of ETSA &#8212; have never changed retailers, have never rung in to ask for a competitive offer or a year contract. They\u2019re paying extraordinary prices,\u201d Mr Koutsantonis said on Monday.<\/h3>\n<h3>\u201cThey need to ring up and say to their retailer, I want a market competitive offer. If you\u2019re not sure what that means or how to do it, go see your local member of parliament, go to your local council, go to the energy ombudsman and ask them for help.<\/h3>\n<h3>\u201cDo not be paying these extraordinary prices because they rely on you, they call you sticky customers. When they\u2019ve got sticky customers it\u2019s like turning up the dial a bit and knowing you\u2019re going to keep paying these bills.<\/h3>\n<h3>\u201cYou\u2019ve got to move and move regularly. You\u2019ve got to treat electricity like you treat petrol. You don\u2019t buy petrol at the same petrol station over and over again.\u201d<\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Today\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FIVEAABreakfast?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@FIVEAABreakfast<\/a> podcast with David &amp; Will:<br><br>iTunes <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/NmIb1ouVbB\">https:\/\/t.co\/NmIb1ouVbB<\/a><br>Online <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ha1zbRJ6lt\">https:\/\/t.co\/ha1zbRJ6lt<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/eI47ZGBZ60\">pic.twitter.com\/eI47ZGBZ60<\/a><\/p>&mdash; FIVEAA (@1395FIVEAA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/1395FIVEAA\/status\/924787435187331072?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 29, 2017<\/a><\/blockquote>&#13;\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Energy minister Tom Koutsantonis issued a warning on FIVEAA breakfast to \u201csticky\u201d power customers. \u201cThere are people who &#8212; since the privatisation of ETSA &#8212; have never changed retailers, have never rung in to ask for a competitive offer or a year contract. They\u2019re paying extraordinary prices,\u201d Mr Koutsantonis said on Monday. \u201cThey need to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":7780,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[244,231],"tags":[260],"geo_market":[],"class_list":["post-28849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-david-and-will","category-show","tag-show"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Energy Minister Has Some Advice For Reducing Your Power Bill - FIVEAA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/show\/energy-minister-has-some-advice-for-reducing-your-power-bill\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Energy Minister Has Some Advice For Reducing Your Power Bill\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Energy minister Tom Koutsantonis issued a warning on FIVEAA breakfast to \u201csticky\u201d power customers. \u201cThere are people who &#8212; since the privatisation of ETSA &#8212; have never changed retailers, have never rung in to ask for a competitive offer or a year contract. 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