Gas and Electricity Suppliers Compared in Victoria

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Compare & Connect partners with some of Australia’s leading gas and electricity providers so you're able to compare gas and electricity deals that are available in Victoria in one convenient place. We pride ourselves on being one of Australia's leading platforms , based on number of services processed, for utility and energy comparison and connection.

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List of our active gas and electricity providers in Victoria

Our vision is to bring all energy providers under one roof, to give our customers many options to choose from . At this moment we have established relationships with following providers in Victoria : Please note that some of our energy providers are available via our website interface and some are available by using our call centre comparison service.

We are constantly working towards adding more and more providers to this our list. We are extremely proud of these partnerships.

Electricity Market Competition in Victoria

The Australian electricity market has been undergoing a process of deregulation since the late 1990s. The first step was to establish a national electricity network {{citymarketintro4}} in one state to be delivered to customers in other states.

Another stage, which occurred sooner in some states, was the dividing up of state owned monopolies into several competing entities and then privatising them. In an attempt to produce a greater amount of competition the market was separated into two levels

• Energy Distributors
  Distributors manage the delivery of electricity to customers' premises , and they own and maintain the powerlines and poles, and don't engage directly with customers.
• Energy Retailers The retailers have all the interactions with the customer. They sell the electricity and manage the billing. Each state has between 1 and 3 distributors and up to 30 retailers.

On 1 July 2008 , the Victoria market was fully deregulated. This meant that customers could change to a provider that had cheaper electricity prices.

Electricity in Victoria is provided by five distributors

• Ausnet Services
  AusNet Services distributes electricity to the eastern outer & northern suburbs of Melbourne and eastern Victoria.
• Citipower
  Citipower supplies electricity throughout Melbourne City and it's inner suburbs.
• Powercor Australia
  Powercor provides electricity in the western Victoria and western suburbs of Melbourne.
• Jemena
  Jemena distributes electricity to the northern and south-western suburbs of Melbourne.
• United Energy Distribution
  United Energy supplies electricity in the Mornington Peninsula and the southern suburbs of Melbourne.

Tips for reducing electricity usage and lower your bills

Here are a few easily implemented tips for reducing household expenditure on electricity

• Wear clothing that is appropriate for the weather, instead of turning on the heater (jumper, booties, warm socks, beanie).
• Turn your appliances off at the power point when they're not in use.
• A cheap alternative to an electric blanket is a hot water bottle.
• Use your clothes dryer less frequently. Instead, dry the clothes outside or alternatively, use an indoor clothing rack.
• Minimise draughts. Prevent cold air or hot air entering or escaping through gaps under doors and around windows by using door snakes and gap seal tape.
• Stop the sun over-heating your house by closing blinds and curtains in rooms that the hot sun shines directly into.
• Close doors to areas of the house that aren't in use, so you just heat or cool a smaller area.
• Use less lighting by making use of the available natural light.
• Minimise the use of air conditioning by opening windows at night to allow the cooler air in, and then closing them in the morning thus keeping hot air out.

FAQ about switching gas and electricity providers

This section contains questions and answers about what happens after you've completed the comparison process and you have made the decision that you'd like to switch gas and electricity providers.