Imported plans come from the Australian Energy Regulator's Product Reference Data, the same government dataset behind the official Energy Made Easy comparison site. We use each retailer's generally available flat-rate plans with GST-inclusive reference rates for Tasmanian postcodes. The dataset is a dated snapshot, and the retrieved date is shown next to the import tool.

The import uses reference rates: the standing rates retailers publish to the regulator for a flat-rate tariff, shown here with GST included, the same way Energy Made Easy displays them. Retailer websites often lead with conditional discounts, sign-up credits or time-limited offers that aren't reflected in reference rates, and prices can change after our snapshot date. Treat the comparison as a like-for-like starting point and always confirm the current rate with the retailer before switching. Retailers also sell variants of the same plan family at different rates, for example demand-tariff versions, so quote the plan ID shown under each imported plan to make sure you are looking at the same one.

Tasmanian homes are commonly billed on two meters: Tariff 31 for light and power (enter that as your General usage) and Tariff 41 for wired-in heating and electric hot water (enter that in the Tariff 41 field). Newer controlled load tariffs (61, 62 and 63) exist too. Where a plan publishes a Tariff 41 rate the import uses it; otherwise the closest controlled tariff is used. If your home only has one meter, enter zero for Tariff 41 and it's ignored. Some controlled load tariffs also carry a small daily supply charge of their own, which this calculator's estimate does not include.

Yes. Turn on the solar option, enter your average daily export from a recent bill, and each plan's bill is reduced by its feed-in credit, so solar homes are ranked on net cost. The calculator uses each plan's standard ongoing feed-in rate and doesn't credit headline rates that are capped to the first few kWh a day or only paid at certain times, because a single daily export figure can't value those fairly; those plans are tagged instead. Enter your grid import (what you draw after your panels), not your total solar generation.

Tasmania's retail electricity market is small. Aurora Energy is the government-owned incumbent, and only a handful of other retailers publish generally available plans for the State. The whole State is on the one TasNetworks distribution network. That's a feature of the market, not missing data.

Look for a section like "your usage" or "average daily usage" on your bill, usually shown in kWh per day. If your bill only shows total kWh for the billing period, divide it by the number of days in the period. Tasmanian bills usually show each tariff (31, 41 and so on) as its own line with its own usage.