Regulator will scrutinise the behaviour of electricity retailers, and contracts offered to customers, and report back in June 2018

The Turnbull government has asked the competition regulator to review the national electricity market.

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) will scrutinise the behaviour of electricity retailers, and the contracts offered to residential and business customers, to ensure Australians are benefiting from competition.

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