Australia

Or will result in poor health outcomes for those who can't afford to keep their houses at a healthy temperature, come winter or summer.

It's also a potent recipe for huge profits for the every companies.

At that point, we might as well nationalise the whole grid.

Let's nationalise the whole grid...

There seems to be a lot of anti consumer and action against humanity behaviour from multiple industries in Australia: coal, energy, telecom, building, REA, supermarkets, etc

All of them are just pure evil but masking themselves as capitalists. They are buying our politicians and the average citizens are so powerless.

We need change, just like what the Frenchs are demanding

Great idea, don't know how it would work in practice though.

And yeah, my email to my supplier this year was essentially "don't make me faux leave to another supplier again to get the good rate, just give it to me"

I expect the deals would just go away in those circumstances, since they only make money from it because most people (understandably) don't bother with the process. But yeah, the "loyalty fee" price structure is certainly getting tiresome.

Grandfather the rates.

I assume you're not in Australia?

Electricity has historically been very cheap in Australia. Even now a lot of people people are paying as little as 15 cents (in USD) per kWh. That's far less than other first world countries - a lot of them pay more like 40 cents.

We also have a climate where people generally don't use much power overnight and where solar panels are especially effective during the day (the angle of the sun is great for solar here) so if your daytime power needs are high you can simply install panels on the roof.

A lot of people in Australia don't pay for electricity at all - cover your roof in solar panels and you'll earn (a tiny bit) of money supplying energy to the grid. You won't become a millionaire doing that, but you will make enough money to cover the cost of installing the panels relatively quickly.

Yes, prices have gone up unacceptably, and it's hard for people to adjust, but they're still relatively low compared to, say, western Europe. We've got coal power stations shutting down because they're too expensive to run at current electricity prices... and we don't even need to import coal. We've got local coal mines which are struggling to find anyone willing to buy their coal so prices are low for that too.

Energy companies are claiming the transition away from coal and disruptions in the gas supply with Russia's war have caused supply chain complexities which have forced them to raise prices. I think they're full of shit, and it looks like the ACCC has found the same thing.