EnergySorted costs every electricity plan in your area against your real usage: time-of-use, solar export and controlled load. Then it ranks them cheapest first and proves the number against your current bill. Whole-of-market, and no retailer commissions.
The cheapest electricity plan is not the one with the lowest advertised rate. It is the one that costs least once your real usage, supply charge, solar feed-in and controlled load are all counted. EnergySorted uploads your bill and reproduces your current cost to within a few percent. It then compares the whole market on the same basis, so you see exactly what you would save.
Electricity
Why the cheapest electricity plan is different for every home
When you use power matters as much as how much
Many electricity plans are now time-of-use: a higher peak rate in the evening, a lower off-peak rate overnight, and a shoulder rate in between. Others are a flat single rate at any hour. Which structure is cheapest depends entirely on when your household actually draws power.
A home that runs the dishwasher, pool pump and EV charger overnight can win big on time-of-use. A household home all evening may pay more. EnergySorted reads the split from your interval or bill data and costs both structures for you. You compare on reality, not a headline rate. See our guide on time-of-use vs single rate.
The headline rate vs supply charge trap
A plan can advertise a very low usage rate and still cost you more. The daily supply charge (the fixed amount you pay just to be connected) quietly does the damage. For a lower-usage household, a high supply charge can outweigh the saving on cents per kilowatt-hour.
EnergySorted adds every component together (usage across each rate, supply charge, membership and conditional discounts) and shows the total annual cost. That is the only figure that tells you which electricity plan is genuinely cheapest for your home.
Solar feed-in and controlled load, counted properly
If you have solar, the feed-in tariff you earn for exported power is part of the equation. A plan with a great feed-in rate but a poor usage rate can still leave you worse off. Controlled load (a separately metered circuit for hot water or slab heating) has its own rate again.
EnergySorted detects solar export and controlled load from your uploaded bill and prices them into every plan it ranks. Nothing is left out and nothing is guessed. That is why the comparison holds up when your next bill arrives.
Proving the saving against your real bill
Most comparison sites estimate. EnergySorted reproduces your current bill from your own usage and rates to within a few percent first (so you can see it has understood your home) and only then shows what each alternative plan would have cost over the same period.
Because both the before and the after are built from the same real numbers, the saving is a proven figure rather than a marketing estimate. We compare the whole market, every plan from every AER-listed retailer. Because we take no retailer commissions (EnergySorted is around $39/yr) the ranking answers to you, not to a retailer.
Ongoing tracking so a good deal stays good
Electricity plans change: benefit periods end, rates drift and new offers land. A plan that was cheapest when you switched can quietly become expensive. EnergySorted re-checks the market nightly and alerts you when a better-value plan appears for your usage. You keep the saving instead of losing it to bill creep.
You can compare more than power in one place too: check gas and browse the energy providers serving your area whenever you review.
When your rates change, we catch it
Retailers post a notice before they put your prices up, and almost nobody reads it closely enough to act on it, which is exactly how the loyalty tax gets in. Upload yours and the rate-change reader costs the new rates on your real usage and lists the plans that still beat it, so a rate rise is a decision, not something that just happens to you.
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See the cheapest electricity plan for your actual usage
Upload one recent bill and EnergySorted costs every plan on your real time-of-use, solar and controlled load. Then it proves the saving against your current bill. No retailer commissions, no guesswork.
There is no single cheapest plan. It depends on how much power you use and when. A plan that is cheapest for a household that runs appliances overnight can be the most expensive for one that uses most of its power in the evening peak. EnergySorted costs every plan on your own usage pattern, supply charge, solar export and controlled load. It then ranks them cheapest first, so you see the answer for your home specifically.
Does switching electricity plans interrupt my power?
No. Your electricity is delivered over the same poles and wires no matter which retailer bills you. Switching plans or retailers never cuts your supply, changes your reliability or requires work at your property. The only thing that changes is who sends the bill and what you pay. There is no downtime at all.
Do I need my bill to compare electricity plans?
A recent bill gives the most accurate result. It carries your real usage, the split across peak and off-peak, your supply charge, and any solar feed-in or controlled load. EnergySorted uses it to reproduce your current cost to within a few percent before comparing. That is what makes the saving a proven figure rather than an estimate. You can still get an indicative comparison without one.
Single rate or time-of-use: which is cheaper?
It comes down to when you use power. Single (flat) rate charges the same cents per kilowatt-hour at any hour. Time-of-use charges more in the evening peak and less overnight and in shoulder periods. If you can shift heavy use to off-peak, time-of-use often wins. If your use is concentrated in the peak, single rate can be cheaper. EnergySorted costs both structures on your data so you do not have to guess.
How much can I save by comparing electricity plans?
Savings vary by household, usage and current plan. EnergySorted only ever shows you a figure built from your own bill rather than a generic promise. Because it reproduces your current cost first and then costs the whole market on the same basis, the saving it reports is one you can trust. It re-checks nightly, so you keep it as the market moves.
Does EnergySorted compare every retailer?
Yes. EnergySorted compares whole-of-market (every plan from every AER-listed retailer) and takes no retailer commissions. It charges a flat subscription of around $39 a year instead. That means the ranking is ordered purely by what is cheapest for you, with no incentive to favour any particular retailer.
Stop overpaying for electricity
Upload a recent bill and let EnergySorted cost the whole market on your real usage. Switch to a proven cheaper plan with no interruption to your supply, then let nightly re-checks keep you on the best deal.
