带管道或瓶装气体的房屋面临的价格上涨，选择较少

在新西兰，有600,00个家庭使用汽油，商业客户也受到影响。

Consumers using piped or bottled gas are facing increasing prices and fewer choices, while complaints about services have doubled in the last year.

使用管道或瓶装天然气的消费者面临的价格越来越少，选择较少，而对服务的投诉在去年增加了一倍。

In New Zealand, 600,000 households use gas, and commercial customers were also impacted.

在新西兰，有60万户家庭使用天然气，商业客户也受到影响。

The manager of Consumer NZ's Powerswitch service was expecting to see price increases of around 10 percent on average, but he said that will vary.

消费者NZ的PowerSwitch服务经理预计平均价格上涨约10％，但他说这会有所不同。

“The price changes people are seeing will vary considerably depending on [someone's] location and which retailer they're with.”

“人们看到的价格变化会因[某人]的位置以及他们与哪个零售商的不同而异。”

Fuge told Nine to Noon, so far Mercury was the only gas supplier to announce an increase - at 9.7 percent - but Powerswitch has already seen examples of increases up to 20 percent.

Fuge告诉Nine Nine中午，到目前为止，Mercury是唯一宣布增加的天然气供应商（占9.7％），但Powerswitch已经看到了高达20％的例子。

Consumers were also being hit in the pocket by daily fixed charges on gas, on top of their electricity charge, he said.

他说，除了电费外，消费者还被每天的汽油固定费用击中。

“That's what really makes gas uneconomic for households because you end up paying two daily charges rather than one.

“这就是真正使家庭不经济的原因，因为您最终要支付两份每日指控，而不是一项指控。

“So you have to have an electricity connection, you can't avoid electricity but you can avoid gas. Unfortunately if you've got a gas connection you end up paying a daily charge, on average about $2 a day, so that really adds up.

“因此，您必须有电力连接，无法避免电力，但可以避免使用汽油。不幸的是，如果您有汽油连接，您最终会每天支付每日费用，每天每天约2美元，这确实加起来了。

“We've had examples of people coming to Powerswitch and asking us why their powerbill is so high and what we've discovered is where they've got a gas connection and they've only got say a gas hob, they end up paying a very high price because their daily charge is way in excess of the gas they're actually using.”

“我们有例子说人们来到Powerswitch并问我们为什么他们的强力灯较高，我们发现的是他们有汽油连接的地方，而他们只有说煤气炉，他们最终会付出很高的价格，因为他们的日常费用超过了实际使用的汽油。”

Fuge said while the daily charge was small it could add up to between $800 to $1000 a year.

Fuge说，虽然每日费用很小，但每年的费用可能总计为800至1000美元。

“There's two things happening... the network is getting more expensive.

“有两件事正在发生……网络变得越来越昂贵。

“That's because it's an ageing infrastructure and you've got other things like the high cost of replacing infrastructure and the high cost of capital, it's affecting the network charges.

“那是因为它是一个老化的基础设施，您还有其他事情，例如取代基础设施的高成本和高昂的资本成本，它会影响网络费用。

“On top of that you've got scarcity and then, of course, scarcity will increase price. So as the gas reserves get lower and there's more competition for gas,” he said.

他说：“最重要的是，您的价格稀缺，当然，稀缺性会提高价格。因此，随着天然气储量的越来越少，并且有更多的汽油竞争。”

Gas New Zealand, which represented the gas industry, was aware of high prices and difficult market conditions but chief executive, Jeffrey Clarke said there was a strong future for gas as a fuel.

代表天然气行业的新西兰天然气新西兰已经意识到价格很高和市场状况艰难，但首席执行官杰弗里·克拉克（Jeffrey Clarke）表示，天然气作为燃料的未来有很强的未来。

“So I think the whole gas sector and electricity sector are working to put more supply in and that's the reality.

“因此，我认为整个天然气部门和电力部门都在努力投入更多的供应，这就是现实。

“We are short on supply. So prices are going up and there's a lot of investment that's needed in the network.”

“我们的供应不足。因此价格上涨，网络中需要大量投资。”

Clarke said in order to increase the supply he'd like to see more investment in renewable gas which is made from agricultural waste, food waste, wastewater, which releases gas when it decomposes.

克拉克说，为了增加他希望在可再生气体上进行更多投资的供应，该供应由农业废物，食物浪费，废水制成，在分解时会释放天然气。

“The reality is that we need gas at the moment to support our electricity system, so we can't do without it.

“现实是，我们目前需要汽油来支持我们的电力系统，因此我们无法没有它。

“So if you look at the Climate Change Commission's modeling, they assume that we will continue to use gas to support our renewable electricity generation right out to 2050 because we need something to balance off the variability of renewables, so we have to have it.”

“因此，如果您查看气候变化委员会的建模，他们认为我们将继续使用天然气来支持我们的可再生电力发电至2050年，因为我们需要一些东西来平衡可再生能源的可变性，因此我们必须拥有它。”