Cost modeling can't tell you whether you actually qualify for a plan --
several top-ranked results turned out to require things like buying
solar equipment through a specific installer partner, or being a new
customer only. AER's data states these restrictions explicitly in most
cases; surface them as modeling notes (and a badge in the comparison
table) so they're visible before considering a switch, rather than
only showing up when someone tries to sign up.
Doesn't catch every restriction -- some plans (e.g. concession/seniors
offers) carry no eligibility block in AER's data at all despite an
implied real-world restriction, so absence of the badge isn't a
guarantee of eligibility.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
AER's Consumer Data Right unitPrice fields are GST-exclusive, confirmed
by comparing a real, currently-effective EnergyAustralia contract's own
GST-inclusive rates against this plan's cached AER data: usage rates and
the supply charge all matched the cached value multiplied by exactly
1.1 (four independent figures). A real AGL bill confirmed the same
convention separately (excl-GST line items, GST added back as one
combined amount at the end). This understated every one of the ~700+
cached comparison plans' costs by ~10% relative to manually-entered
current plans (which were correctly GST-inclusive, taken from real
bills), biasing every "savings vs current" figure across the board.
Feed-in/solar buy-back rates are the exception -- confirmed GST-free in
that same contract's own terms -- so the multiplier applies only to
usage rates and the supply charge.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
FastAPI app that pulls interval usage from Sungrow iSolarCloud (OAuth2),
caches AER Consumer Data Right electricity plan data, and compares actual
metered usage against every available plan to estimate real annual cost
(TOU, tiered feed-in, and flat tariffs).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
