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Mike Thorne

Mike Thorne
Mike is the Subscriptions Director at Utilmate and is responsible for the global growth and performance of Utilmate. With more than 20 years’ experience in the utilities and technology industries and 10 within the Agility CIS group, Mike understands what is important to modern utilities and how to enable the tech to make it happen.
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Utilmate for Exempt Electricity Retailers

Posted by Mike Thorne on 5 June 2019 11:20:31 AM

Once upon a time, selling electricity in Australia meant simply posting your tenants a monthly tax invoice from your accounting system, they then popped into your office and paid.  Simple.

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Topics: exempt retailers, AEMC, Victorian Essential Service

Victorian Regulatory Changes

Posted by Mike Thorne on 28 May 2019 1:00:00 PM

As you’re likely aware, some important regulatory requirements for embedded network operators, exempt retailers and authorised retailers in Victoria are changing from 1 July 2019.

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Topics: embedded networks, authorised retailers, GST inclusive rates, Best offer, exempt retailers, victoria, Essential Service Commission, Victorian default offer, VDF, australia, ESC

1 July 2019 Regulatory Changes

Posted by Mike Thorne on 27 May 2019 5:00:00 PM

As you're likely aware, the regulatory requirements for embedded network operators, exempt retailers, and authorised retailers in Australia is constantly evolving and changing. As part of this, there are a number of regulatory changes coming into effect from 1 July 2019 you'll need to be across.

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Topics: embedded networks, authorised retailers, AER default offer, GST inclusive rates, Best offer, exempt retailers, ESC default offer

AEMC changes for exempt retailers

Posted by Mike Thorne on 27 May 2019 4:21:11 PM

Currently over 3,000 embedded electricity operators are registered as exempt across the National Electricity Market (NEM). However as this number does not include smaller embedded networks deemed to be exempt, the total number of embedded networks is likely to be much greater.

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Topics: exempt retailers, off-market, NEM, National Electricity Market

New HTML emails

Posted by Mike Thorne on 27 May 2019 3:28:47 PM

We’ve been up and running for over 2 years now (how times flies) and I hope you’ll agree, we’ve come a long way in that time.

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Topics: html emails

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