EnergyAustralia, one of the country’s leading energy retailers, today said it would keep electricity prices flat for Victorian households in 2019 by paying more than $15 million worth of increases in supply-chain and other costs.

EnergyAustralia, one of the country’s leading energy retailers, today said its eligible concession-card customers on default or “standing offer” tariffs would receive a 15 per cent discount on their electricity and gas usage.

Victoria’s Gannawarra Energy Storage System (GESS), the largest integrated solar and battery storage facility in Australia, is now exporting and importing electricity to the grid and is ready to support the national energy system as demand rises over summer.

Victorian Energy Minister, Lily D’Ambrosio, today officially inaugurated Victoria’s first utility-scale Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) at the AusNet Services Ballarat Terminal Station in Warrenheip, Ballarat.