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Energy price changes

Understand your energy prices

See what affects your energy prices and available support options.

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Here’s what affects your energy prices

A few factors can influence the costs that go into your energy bill, which change over time. The numbers below are for electricity customers and are based on 2023-2024 electricity supply data from the Australian Energy Market Commission.

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Wholesale costs

Costs to produce gas and electricity from wholesalers to supply to our customers. This fluctuates based on availability and demand.

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Network costs

Distributors deliver energy to you through poles, wires, pipes, and meters. The costs energy retailers pay for this add to your total energy prices.

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Retailer costs

We calculate the costs to provide services to you and run our business, and include these in our energy rates. We also consider our margin as a retailer.

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Renewable energy scheme costs

Government policies can add costs to your energy, like renewable energy targets and energy efficiency initiatives.

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Your electricity use and tariffs

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Things you should know

You can view your energy usage and projected bill details in My Account or the AGL app.

View your past energy usage:

  • on My Account, go to the menu and select ‘Usage’
  • on the AGL app, on the ‘Overview’ tab, select your energy type (electricity or gas) and then select ‘Past usage’.

Get a bill projection:

If you have a basic meter and joined AGL in the last six months, you’ll need to submit a meter read to get a bill projection. Your bill projection is just an estimate and your actual bill might be different. Here's how we estimate your bill:

  1. we look at your average daily usage based on your meter readings or available data
  2. we consider factors like temperature, season, and average usage of similar customers in your area
  3. we multiply this by the number of days in your billing period.

If you provide your own meter read within two days of your scheduled bill date, we'll send your bill based on this reading.

Learn about energy usage calculations

The Default Market Offer (DMO) is a government initiative to set and explain prices to customers. It acts as a benchmark for customers when comparing plans between different retailers.

It acts as a ‘cap’ on standing offer prices, which means they must not be higher than the DMO. The aim is to help make electricity prices more affordable and easier to understand.

For assistance finding the right plan, visit the Australian government website Energy Made Easy.

We review our prices each year, based on changes to regulated pricing and costs to supply energy to you. After this, we usually adjust and update our prices in July or August.

We'll always let you know in writing, either by letter or email, before any changes take effect.

As an AGL customer, we want you to understand your rights and the options available to you. Find everything you need to know about your customer rights.

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