Date Time Power to grow our industry The start of July is an important time for sugarcane growers who use electricity to irrigate and CANEGROWERS is able to help with the important task of selecting the right Ergon tariff for your farm business. Over the past decade, sugarcane growers have seen electricity costs rise more than 130%, threatening farm productivity and industry competitiveness. At the same time, Ergon, Energex and Powerlink have been earning record profits and contributing around a billion dollars a year to the Queensland Government. CANEGROWERS believes electricity prices for irrigation should be capped at 16c/kWh (being 8c/kWh for the network and 8c/kWh for the electrons) including the associated retail charges.