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Published context. Explicit assumptions. Traceable results.

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Retail customer portfolio / 763,000 customers / 48 cohorts
1 July 2026 → 31 Mar 2027
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Public evidence anchors a modelled customer portfolio

Lighthouse Ripplemodelled

Ripple six-year synthetic design and deterministic generator

Seed 20260925. Regional 763,000 is a synthetic demonstration control, not an asserted current Ergon Retail customer count. All generated customer, price, weather, meter, credit, workforce and hedge records are synthetic.

2021-07-01 through 2027-06-30
Australian Energy Market Operatorpublished

QLD1 historical regional price and demand, 2021–August 2026

Collection manifest points to each retained CSV and SHA256. Raw settlement timestamps are interval ends in NEM time (UTC+10). Before October 2021 the series is half-hourly; later six five-minute observations are averaged per half-hour. All 2069 days have 48 complete price/demand values. Demand is whole-region MW, not Ergon retail demand. Future prices and customer-specific exposure remain modelled.

2021-01-01 through 2026-08-31; 68 complete months, 530352 original rows, 99312 half-hoursRetained & hashed
Queensland Competition Authoritypublished

Regulated retail electricity prices 2025–26, final determination

Tariff rates in tariff-benchmarks.json are nominal cents excluding GST. Retail regulated tariff, not actual customer assignment. Tariff codes have distinct time windows and eligibility.

2025-07-01 through 2026-06-30Retained & hashed
Queensland Competition Authoritypublished

Gazette notified prices and solar sharer offer 2026–27

All stated tariff rates exclude GST. T12F table visually checked, PDF page 7. Free 11:00–14:00 usage capped at 24 kWh/day, then 7.365 c/kWh; day 14:00–16:00 7.365, peak 16:00–21:00 44.456, other times 24.011. T22D peak is weekdays only. No published tariff after June 2027 is asserted.

2026-07-01 through 2027-06-30Retained & hashed
Queensland Competition Authoritypublished

Regulated retail electricity prices 2026–27, final determination

Figure 2.1 and 2.2, printed page 5 (PDF page 8), typical bills visually verified; amounts include GST. Uses QCA median usage assumptions, not the synthetic portfolio. Rounded chart bars must not be treated as an exact invoice oracle.

2026-07-01 through 2027-06-30Retained & hashed
Queensland Competition Authoritypublished

Solar sharer offer: final determination

SSO policy context and tariff12F design. Published offer does not establish customer uptake, load shift or call elasticity.

2026–27Retained & hashed
Queensland Competition Authoritypublished

Regulated electricity prices 2026–27: appendices and typical consumption

Appendix B, Table 3, printed page 6 (PDF page 7) visually verified. Medians from actual Ergon Retail customers. Compare the corresponding tariff median, not a different population mean.

Usage as at 2025-06-30, used for 2026–27 bill estimatesRetained & hashed
Queensland Competition Authoritypublished

Regional Queensland solar feed-in tariff 2026–27

Table 2 printed page 7; published tariff excludes GST. Apply customer GST registration treatment separately. The same comparison table gives 2025–26 rate. Legacy Solar Bonus Scheme eligibility is separate.

2026-07-01 through 2027-06-30Retained & hashed
Queensland Competition Authority / ACIL Allenpublished

ACIL Allen cost of energy modelling data 2026–27

Published regulatory modelling workbook retained for sensitivity assumptions. Its forecast outputs are model results, not measured future spot prices; no extracted value is silently applied.

QCA 2026–27 determinationRetained & hashed
Australian Energy Regulatorpublished

Ergon retail performance: Customers and contracts

Exact extracted workbook cells retained in aer-ergon-benchmarks.json. These are retailer reporting aggregates, not a customer microdataset or causal response. Do not equate 741548 residential+small-business retail customers with the network footprint. Debt indicator scope/method changed over time; preserve workbook notes.

Q3 FY2025–26 (January–March 2026); historical annual columns 2020–21 through 2024–25 also retainedRetained & hashed
Australian Energy Regulatorpublished

Ergon retail performance: Debt and concessions

Exact extracted workbook cells retained in aer-ergon-benchmarks.json. These are retailer reporting aggregates, not a customer microdataset or causal response. Do not equate 741548 residential+small-business retail customers with the network footprint. Debt indicator scope/method changed over time; preserve workbook notes.

Q3 FY2025–26 (January–March 2026); historical annual columns 2020–21 through 2024–25 also retainedRetained & hashed
Australian Energy Regulatorpublished

Ergon retail performance: Hardship

Exact extracted workbook cells retained in aer-ergon-benchmarks.json. These are retailer reporting aggregates, not a customer microdataset or causal response. Do not equate 741548 residential+small-business retail customers with the network footprint. Debt indicator scope/method changed over time; preserve workbook notes.

Q3 FY2025–26 (January–March 2026); historical annual columns 2020–21 through 2024–25 also retainedRetained & hashed
Australian Energy Regulatorpublished

Ergon retail performance: Life support

Exact extracted workbook cells retained in aer-ergon-benchmarks.json. These are retailer reporting aggregates, not a customer microdataset or causal response. Do not equate 741548 residential+small-business retail customers with the network footprint. Debt indicator scope/method changed over time; preserve workbook notes.

Q3 FY2025–26 (January–March 2026); historical annual columns 2020–21 through 2024–25 also retainedRetained & hashed
Australian Energy Regulator / Ergon Energypublished

Ergon approved standard control services pricing model

Cached workbook values read without executing macros. Total network prices include distribution, designated pricing proposal costs and jurisdictional scheme amounts. Flat East/West benchmark packet retains cell references. Metering, tariff assignment, losses, market and green charges require separate evidence. Isolated Mt Isa tariff excluded from NEM benchmark packet.

2026-07-01 through 2027-06-30Retained & hashed
Clean Energy Regulatorpublished

Small-scale solar installations by postcode

Retained all postcode rows; selected six postcodes and 2021+ monthly data extracted in cer-selected-postcodes.json. Counts are registered installation events, include upgrades/off-grid where eligible, and can lag installation by up to 12 months. They are not unique homes or an automatically mapped Ergon customer share.

As at 2026-08-31; solar monthly 2011–August 2026 plus historic totals; battery July 2025–August 2026Retained & hashed
Clean Energy Regulatorpublished

Small-scale battery installations by postcode

Retained all postcode rows; selected six postcodes and 2021+ monthly data extracted in cer-selected-postcodes.json. Counts are registered installation events, include upgrades/off-grid where eligible, and can lag installation by up to 12 months. They are not unique homes or an automatically mapped Ergon customer share.

As at 2026-08-31; solar monthly 2011–August 2026 plus historic totals; battery July 2025–August 2026Retained & hashed
NASA Langley Research Centerpublished

POWER daily temperature and solar radiation

Four retained API responses; 5721 daily rows. Published gridded reanalysis (MERRA2/SYN1DEG/POWER), not station or household measurements. NASA local solar time is not AEST. Radiation kWh/m²/day is converted to MJ/m²/day by 3.6 in weather-daily.json. Nulls remain null. Historical weather scenarios and PV conversion remain modelled.

Townsville 2021-01-01–2026-08-31; Rockhampton and Mount Isa 2021-01-01–2025-12-31Retained & hashed
Australian Bureau of Statisticspublished

2021 Census QuickStats: Queensland

Aggregate context only; not current individual income, wealth, vulnerability or eligibility. Geography covers all Queensland, not the Ergon portfolio.

2021 CensusRetained & hashed
Australian Bureau of Statisticspublished

SEIFA 2021 postal area indexes

Full workbook retained; selected six postal areas in seifa-selected-postcodes.json with exact row references. SEIFA is an area-level relative index; do not infer a named household's income, hardship, health or ability to pay. Postal areas are not exact network boundaries; postcode4825 spans states.

2021 Census postal areasRetained & hashed
Australian Bureau of Statisticspublished

Household Income and Wealth, Australia 2019–20

National aggregate and older survey reference year. Mean wealth is not median wealth or local wealth. Do not assign asset balances to synthetic people as observed data.

2019–20 surveyRetained & hashed
Queensland Audit Officepublished

Energy 2025: audited sector report

Approximate actual CSO is audit context. It does not establish the marginal subsidy reimbursement formula for a new tariff, and customer rebates must not be counted as CSO. L9 subsidy changes require a separately confirmed mechanism.

FY2024–25Retained & hashed
Queensland Department of Transport and Main Roadspublished

Queensland electric vehicle snapshot March 2026

61 monthly points extracted to ev-qld-monthly.json. Includes private, commercial and dealership vehicles, multiple vehicle types. Vehicle fleet penetration is not household EV ownership. Source low-emission penetration text says 42%; this ambiguous percentage is excluded, not silently corrected.

March 2021–March 2026 monthly registrations; snapshot 2026-03-31Retained & hashed
Australian Energy Market Operatorpublished

Meter Data File Format specification NEM12/NEM13 v2.6

Sections4.5 and4.6 distinguish record400 interval-event quality ranges from record500 B2B details. Record500 is not a substitution record. Retained as the inspected format reference; current-version conformance must be checked before production retailer ingestion.

Version2.6 effective 2024-11-04Retained & hashed
Australian Energy Regulatorpublished

Minimum disconnection amount: final decision August 2025

Printed pages1–2 and6 confirm500AUD inclusiveGST and repayment-agreement condition in rule116(1)(g). This floor does not authorise disconnection and does not displace life-support or hardship protections.

New amount effective 2026-07-01Retained & hashed
Australian Energy Regulator / Australian Competition and Consumer Commissionpublished

Communicating pricing changes: joint compliance bulletin July 2026

Page6 and footnote16: Queensland market-contract price increases require10businessdays notice; generic national5-day guidance must not be applied blindly. Fixed-price period changes have separate requirements. Rule46exceptions and contract type must be checked. Code section on page1 applies to NSW/SA/SEQ, not directly to regional Queensland; regionalSSO uses QCAdecision.

Guidance published July2026; inspected2026-09-25Retained & hashed
Australian Energy Regulatorpublished

Life support registration guide September 2021

Pages7–10 distinguish initial registration upon advice from medical confirmation and deregistration. No household health records were obtained. Packet coverage begins guide publication; not asserted as the legal commencement date.

Guide published2021-09-23; inspected2026-09-25Retained & hashed

Figure register

Numerical claims are bound to the result, scope and equation · 465 of 465 shown

FigureValueUnitAuthorityPeriod
East · Residential · basic · none · flat bill 2026-07bill-cohort-01-2026-07$24.34MAUDmodelled2026-07
East · Residential · basic · solar · flat bill 2026-07bill-cohort-02-2026-07$7.68MAUDmodelled2026-07
East · Residential · basic · ev · flat bill 2026-07bill-cohort-03-2026-07$2.85MAUDmodelled2026-07
East · Residential · smart · none · flat bill 2026-07bill-cohort-04-2026-07$16.58MAUDmodelled2026-07
East · Residential · smart · none · tou bill 2026-07bill-cohort-05-2026-07$7.34MAUDmodelled2026-07
East · Residential · smart · solar · flat bill 2026-07bill-cohort-06-2026-07$9.23MAUDmodelled2026-07
East · Residential · smart · solar · tou bill 2026-07bill-cohort-07-2026-07$6.05MAUDmodelled2026-07
East · Residential · smart · solar + battery · flat bill 2026-07bill-cohort-08-2026-07$3.43MAUDmodelled2026-07
East · Residential · smart · ev · tou bill 2026-07bill-cohort-09-2026-07$6.73MAUDmodelled2026-07
East · Residential · smart · solar + ev · flat bill 2026-07bill-cohort-10-2026-07$4.9MAUDmodelled2026-07
East · Residential · smart · solar + battery · tou bill 2026-07bill-cohort-11-2026-07$2.6MAUDmodelled2026-07
East · Residential · smart · solar + ev · tou bill 2026-07bill-cohort-12-2026-07$4.8MAUDmodelled2026-07
East · Business · basic · none · flat bill 2026-07bill-cohort-13-2026-07$10.03MAUDmodelled2026-07
East · Business · basic · solar · flat bill 2026-07bill-cohort-14-2026-07$2.95MAUDmodelled2026-07
East · Business · basic · ev · flat bill 2026-07bill-cohort-15-2026-07$1.23MAUDmodelled2026-07
East · Business · smart · none · flat bill 2026-07bill-cohort-16-2026-07$6.84MAUDmodelled2026-07
East · Business · smart · none · tou bill 2026-07bill-cohort-17-2026-07$3.13MAUDmodelled2026-07
East · Business · smart · solar · flat bill 2026-07bill-cohort-18-2026-07$3.54MAUDmodelled2026-07
East · Business · smart · solar · tou bill 2026-07bill-cohort-19-2026-07$2.32MAUDmodelled2026-07
East · Business · smart · solar + battery · flat bill 2026-07bill-cohort-20-2026-07$1.21MAUDmodelled2026-07
East · Business · smart · ev · tou bill 2026-07bill-cohort-21-2026-07$2.99MAUDmodelled2026-07
East · Business · smart · solar + ev · flat bill 2026-07bill-cohort-22-2026-07$2.01MAUDmodelled2026-07
East · Business · smart · solar + battery · tou bill 2026-07bill-cohort-23-2026-07$922.85KAUDmodelled2026-07
East · Business · smart · solar + ev · tou bill 2026-07bill-cohort-24-2026-07$1.96MAUDmodelled2026-07
West · Residential · basic · none · flat bill 2026-07bill-cohort-25-2026-07$4.64MAUDmodelled2026-07
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