OK, Victoria only and you need an electricity or gas account. You give them some information they keep and use, supposedly non-attributed unless you want their marketing emails, and get a comparison and a $50 cheque in the mail. (I am eagerly awaiting that).
The system is pretty good. The software extrapolates from a single months use (you input the dates range and average daily usage from a recent bill).
In contrast my spreadsheet goes for 18 months of actual use. Comparing my plans with their best suggested plans showed I do not have the absolute cheapest, but not so far off. The discrepancies are probably introduced in the cold/hot months when there is a significantly higher ‘2nd price tier’ component than the standard modelling, as well as the ‘balance’ between connection fees and usage.
Nothing beats your own spread sheet with actual consumption to compare offers, but this is a handy tool to get data to plug in from ‘suspect’ alternative providers.
(With acknowledgement to Choice’s powerup community project)
