Cheapest electricity plans in Australia, by network
Which residential electricity plan costs least depends on your network, the company that owns the poles and wires where you live, and on how much electricity you use. For each of 14 networks, every retailer's plans are ranked here by an estimated bill for a year for a typical household: the regulator's reference usage for that network (medium), half of it (low) and double it (high), with no solar. The estimate is for that household, not your own bill.
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Cheapest plan on each network
| Network | State | Medium kWh/yr | Plans ranked | Low usage | Medium usage | High usage |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ausgrid | NSW | 3,900 | 263 | $894Globird Energy | $1,410Globird Energy | $2,4061st Energy |
| Endeavour Energy | NSW | 4,900 | 268 | $1,091Globird Energy | $1,738Globird Energy | $3,031Globird Energy |
| Essential Energy | NSW | 4,600 | 330 | $1,326Sumo | $1,918Globird Energy | $3,077Globird Energy |
| Essential Energy Far West | NSW | 4,600 | 266 | $1,326Sumo | $2,054Tango Energy | $3,345Tango Energy |
| Energex | QLD | 4,600 | 235 | $933Nectr | $1,401Globird Energy | $2,407Globird Energy |
| Ergon Energy | QLD | 4,600 | 20 | $1,204Ergon Energy | $1,836Ergon Energy | $3,099Ergon Energy |
| SA Power Networks | SA | 4,000 | 220 | $1,148Kogan Energy | $1,8391st Energy | $3,1471st Energy |
| Evoenergy | ACT | 5,300 | 85 | $1,078ActewAGL | $1,786ActewAGL | $3,082Origin Energy |
| TasNetworks | TAS | 7,100 | 20 | $1,421Solstice Energy | $2,218Solstice Energy | $3,814Solstice Energy |
| CitiPower | VIC | 4,000 | 282 | $693Tango Energy | $1,1031st Energy | $1,867Globird Energy |
| Powercor | VIC | 4,000 | 279 | $773Tango Energy | $1,2051st Energy | $2,0261st Energy |
| Jemena | VIC | 4,000 | 276 | $719Tango Energy | $1,1291st Energy | $1,9051st Energy |
| AusNet Services | VIC | 4,000 | 284 | $745Dodo Power & Gas | $1,2661st Energy | $2,167OVO Energy |
| United Energy | VIC | 4,000 | 280 | $686Dodo Power & Gas | $1,1181st Energy | $1,9101st Energy |
Each bill is the cheapest estimated annual bill among plans open to any household on a meter without controlled load, with conditional discounts (pay on time, direct debit) counted. Low is half the medium usage and high is double. Each network's page has the cheapest plan from each retailer, controlled load and every plan in the feed.
How this is built
- The generally available residential electricity plans of the retailers on the CDR Register are read from the Australian Energy Regulator's Consumer Data Right API, retailer by retailer; a retailer whose feed fails is listed in retailers.json. It is the same data Energy Made Easy and Victorian Energy Compare publish. Plans in Western Australia and the Northern Territory are not in it.
- Each network is priced for three households. Medium is the regulator's reference household: the AER's Default Market Offer 2026–27 usage and daily profile in NSW, south-east Queensland and SA, and the ESC's Victorian Default Offer 2026–27 usage (4,000 kWh) in Victoria. The ACT, Tasmania and regional Queensland have no default offer, so their medium is the AER's 2020 average for the distributor scaled to match the others. Low is half of medium and high is double. Usage is the same every day, so a seasonal price is weighted by the number of days in each season. A household with controlled load (a separately metered hot water system) adds the network's controlled load kWh, priced on the plan's cheapest controlled load rate. No solar export is assumed.
- Plans with a demand charge cannot be priced from usage alone and are listed separately on each network's page. Plans open only to some households are ranked only when you ask for them.
- This is reference data worked out from published prices, not advice about which plan to choose. Each estimate assumes a stated household; a real bill depends on the household's own usage.
Deep Almanac is a secondary source and this page is provided for general information and reference. It is not financial, investment, legal, valuation, educational or other professional advice, and it is not a substitute for checking the original source. Each bill here is an estimate for a typical household's usage, worked out from the plan's published prices; your own bill depends on when and how much you use, so check a plan's estimate with your own usage at Energy Made Easy or Victorian Energy Compare, and confirm with the retailer that you can take it (some offer a plan to new customers only without saying so in the data), before you switch. You are responsible for any decision you or your software makes in reliance on this page. See our terms of use.