{
 "dataset": "Australian residential electricity plans",
 "page": "https://deepalmanac.com/au/energy/electricity/",
 "start_here": {
  "answer_file": "https://deepalmanac.com/au/energy/electricity/v1/top/{network}.json",
  "inputs": "network from the postcode in /au/energy/electricity/v1/postcodes.json; then the view for the household: low, medium or high, with _controlled_load for separately metered hot water",
  "example": "https://deepalmanac.com/au/energy/electricity/v1/top/energex.json"
 },
 "generated_at": "2026-11-13T00:57:41Z",
 "fetched_at": "2026-11-13T00:57:15Z",
 "data_as_of": "2026-11-12T21:29:45Z",
 "data_as_of_basis": "The newest lastUpdated time among the plan records, never later than the fetch; each plan carries its own last_updated.",
 "source": "The Australian Energy Regulator's Consumer Data Right energy Product Reference Data API (cdr.energymadeeasy.gov.au), which carries the generally available plans of each retailer on the CDR Register: those on Energy Made Easy and, for Victoria, those from the Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action's Victorian Energy Compare. Retailers are listed from the CDR Register.",
 "licence_note": "Plan data is Consumer Data Right product data from the Australian Energy Regulator's API; CDR rule 2.6 bars a data holder from imposing any condition on the use of product data, so it is republished as fetched, with the source URL of every plan. Reference usage and daily profiles are from the AER's Default Market Offer 2026–27 final determination (CC BY 4.0, © Commonwealth of Australia) and the Essential Services Commission's Victorian Default Offer 2026–27 price determination (CC BY 4.0, © Essential Services Commission). Annual bills are Deep Almanac's estimates from those inputs, not figures published by the AER, the ESC or any retailer. This is reference data, not advice.",
 "licences": [
  {
   "layer": "Consumer Data Right product reference data",
   "covers": "Plans, tariffs, charges, discounts, eligibility and each plan's last-updated time",
   "licence": "No licence is stated. CDR rule 2.6 bars a data holder from imposing conditions, restrictions or limitations of any kind on the use of product data, and it is reproduced as fetched",
   "licence_url": null,
   "attribution": "Published by the Australian Energy Regulator as data holder for each retailer; the source URL is on every row"
  },
  {
   "layer": "AER Default Market Offer 2026–27 final determination",
   "covers": "Reference annual usage and half-hourly daily profiles outside Victoria",
   "licence": "Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)",
   "licence_url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
   "attribution": "© Commonwealth of Australia (Australian Energy Regulator)"
  },
  {
   "layer": "Essential Services Commission Victorian Default Offer 2026–27 price determination",
   "covers": "Victorian reference annual usage and its peak, solar soak and off-peak split",
   "licence": "Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)",
   "licence_url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
   "attribution": "© Essential Services Commission"
  },
  {
   "layer": "Deep Almanac's own work",
   "covers": "Every field no other layer names: rankings and ranks, estimates (such as bills, interest and costs), derived, normalised and summary fields, counts, flags, and the selection and arrangement of the data",
   "licence": "Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)",
   "licence_url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
   "attribution": "Deep Almanac (deepalmanac.com)"
  }
 ],
 "questions": "https://deepalmanac.com/au/energy/electricity/v1/questions.json",
 "openapi": "https://deepalmanac.com/au/energy/electricity/v1/openapi.json",
 "status": "https://deepalmanac.com/status.json",
 "llms": "https://deepalmanac.com/llms.txt",
 "files": [
  "https://deepalmanac.com/au/energy/electricity/v1/networks.json",
  "https://deepalmanac.com/au/energy/electricity/v1/postcodes.json",
  "https://deepalmanac.com/au/energy/electricity/v1/top/ausgrid.json",
  "https://deepalmanac.com/au/energy/electricity/v1/retailers.json",
  "https://deepalmanac.com/au/energy/electricity/v1/questions.json",
  "https://deepalmanac.com/au/energy/electricity/v1/openapi.json"
 ],
 "file_guide": [
  {
   "file": "networks.json",
   "url": "https://deepalmanac.com/au/energy/electricity/v1/networks.json",
   "description": "Each network: state, the households priced, plan counts, and the cheapest plan at each usage level. Start here to find a network's slug."
  },
  {
   "file": "postcodes.json",
   "url": "https://deepalmanac.com/au/energy/electricity/v1/postcodes.json",
   "description": "Postcode to network slugs, from the plans' own postcode lists. A postcode on a network boundary lists both."
  },
  {
   "file": "top/ausgrid.json",
   "url": "https://deepalmanac.com/au/energy/electricity/v1/top/ausgrid.json",
   "description": "The compact answer for one network (a few kB): the cheapest plan from each retailer for each household. Swap the slug for another network."
  },
  {
   "file": "retailers.json",
   "url": "https://deepalmanac.com/au/energy/electricity/v1/retailers.json",
   "description": "Each retailer, its feed status and plan counts."
  }
 ],
 "plan_count": 10545,
 "retailer_count": 37,
 "default_view": {
  "network": "ausgrid",
  "usage": "medium",
  "controlled_load": false
 },
 "households": "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.",
 "not_advice": "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.",
 "top_dir": {
  "url_template": "https://deepalmanac.com/au/energy/electricity/v1/top/{network}.json",
  "networks": [
   "ausgrid",
   "endeavour",
   "essential-energy",
   "essential-energy-far-west",
   "energex",
   "ergon",
   "sa-power-networks",
   "evoenergy",
   "tasnetworks",
   "citipower",
   "powercor",
   "jemena",
   "ausnet",
   "united-energy"
  ],
  "description": "The cheapest plan from each retailer per household, per network. Read this first."
 },
 "networks_dir": {
  "url_template": "https://deepalmanac.com/au/energy/electricity/v1/networks/{network}.json",
  "networks": [
   "ausgrid",
   "endeavour",
   "essential-energy",
   "essential-energy-far-west",
   "energex",
   "ergon",
   "sa-power-networks",
   "evoenergy",
   "tasnetworks",
   "citipower",
   "powercor",
   "jemena",
   "ausnet",
   "united-energy"
  ],
  "description": "Every plan offered in the network, priced at each usage level (annual.low, annual.medium, annual.high; total counts conditional discounts, without_conditional does not), with its prices in cents, conditions and restrictions. Sorted by the medium estimate. Up to about 1 MB."
 }
}