Essential Services Commission

The Essential Services Commission is Victoria’s independent economic regulator that promotes the long term interests of Victorian consumers with respect to the price, quality and reliability of essential services. We regulate Victoria’s energy, water and transport sectors, and administer the rate-capping system for the local government sector. We also regulate the Victorian Energy Upgrades (VEU) program, which aims to reduce greenhouse gases by making energy efficiency improvements more affordable for consumers. --- We acknowledge the Traditional Owners of the lands and waterways on which we work and live. We acknowledge all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities, and pay our respects to Elders past and present. As the First Peoples of this land, belonging to the world’s oldest living cultures, we recognise and value their knowledge, and ongoing role in shaping and enriching the story of Victoria. --- The Essential Services Commission has a social media presence on Facebook, LinkedIn and YouTube to provide information about our work and engage with the community. It is important that our online environments are safe, respectful and constructive places, and remain welcoming and useful to the community. We will not tolerate disrespectful, offensive, crude, hateful or irrelevant comments, or comments that make another person feel unsafe. We will delete comments that are: • discriminatory, potentially defamatory, false or misleading, racist, off-topic, inflammatory, repetitive, offensive or otherwise inappropriate • disrespectful to another person or makes them feel unsafe • commercial content, advertisements or spam • campaigning for a product, service, cause or initiative • unlawful, including language and materials that infringe the privacy, intellectual property or legal rights of others. For more information, please refer to our social media guidelines at https://www.esc.vic.gov.au/about-us/our-policies/our-social-media-guidelines