Tasmania runs on hydro, which makes it comfortably the cleanest grid in the National Electricity Market — and yes, you can switch retailer, whatever you have been told.
From 5 retailers publishing to the AER in Tasmania. Re-checked nightly.
Tasmania is a genuine outlier twice over. Its grid is hydro-fed, so its carbon intensity sits far below every mainland NEM region. And while Aurora Energy holds roughly 94% of the small-customer market — enough that most Tasmanians assume they have no choice — the state has had full retail competition since 1 July 2014. There is less to choose from than in Melbourne or Sydney, but "you cannot switch in Tassie" is simply not true.
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What makes Tasmania different
The cleanest grid in the NEM, by a distance
Tasmania's hydro generation means AEMO's carbon-intensity index for the Tasmanian region runs far below every mainland region, where coal still sets the tone.
This is an emissions fact and never a money one — your rate is set by your plan, not by what happens to be generating. But it does change the honest case for a battery here: in Tasmania the carbon argument for shifting load is weak precisely because the grid is already clean, and the argument has to stand on dollars alone.
You can switch — but the field is small, and the regulator sets the floor
Full retail contestability arrived in 2014, and a handful of retailers beyond Aurora Energy have served residential customers since. Aurora's ~94% share reflects inertia more than a legal barrier.
Your safety net is the Tasmanian Economic Regulator's approved standing offer, not the national Default Market Offer. Because the field is genuinely small, we will tell you plainly when there is nothing better than what you already have — that is what a subscription rather than a commission buys you.
The fixed parts
Your network and your regulated price
Distribution networks
TasNetworks — the whole state — Tasmania has one electricity distributor
Your distributor is set by your address and cannot be switched. Its charges are regulated, so no retailer can discount them away — which is why a comparison has to be run for your actual network, not a state average.
Regulated standing offer prices
Set by the Tasmanian Economic Regulator · 1 July 2026 – 30 June 2027
Tasmania is in the NEM but does NOT use the Default Market Offer. Standing-offer prices are approved by the Tasmanian Economic Regulator — for 2026-27 they were approved on 25 June 2026, rising an average of 4.23%. The regulator also set the state's solar feed-in tariff at 9.276 c/kWh.
These are the network windows published by each distributor, not your retailer’s billing windows — a retail plan can bill different times. We use your own plan’s rates when we cost a comparison.
Concessions
What Tasmania pays toward your bill
Annual Electricity Concession
$1.84347 per day (about $673 a year)
Paid as a daily rate against your account rather than a lump sum.
Concession names, amounts and eligibility are set by government and change — most reset on 1 July. We publish only figures we could verify against an official source, and we link every one so you can check it yourself. There is currently no federal energy bill rebate: the Energy Bill Relief Fund ended on 31 December 2025 and was not renewed in the 2026-27 Budget.
Grid emissions
How clean Tasmania's grid runs
3 g CO2-e per kWh
TAS1 region · 85-day average from AEMO's CDEII index · ranks 1 of 5 NEM regions we track (1 = cleanest)
This is an emissions figure and never a price signal. Your rate is fixed by your plan and does not move with the grid, so nobody should tell you power is "cheaper right now" because the grid happens to be cleaner. Where it does matter: it sets how much carbon each kilowatt-hour of solar you self-consume actually displaces.
Whole of market
Cost the Tasmania market against your own bill
Upload a bill and we reproduce your current cost first, then cost all 176 residential electricity plans the AER publishes for Tasmania, from the 5 retailers we track on the same usage and rank them by real annual dollars. Because we take no commissions, the ranking is not for sale.
Yes. Tasmania is part of the National Electricity Market, so you can switch to any retailer that services your network. Switching is free, does not touch your physical supply, and most plans have no exit fee.
How many Tasmania electricity plans do you compare?
We compare all 176 residential electricity plans the AER publishes for Tasmania, from the 5 retailers we track. We re-check them nightly. We exclude wholesale spot-price pass-through plans, because the AER reference rates for those are not what a customer actually pays — we would rather leave a plan out than rank it on a number we know is wrong.
Who is my electricity distributor in Tasmania?
TasNetworks distributes to the whole state. The distributor runs the poles and wires and its charges are set by the regulator, not your retailer. It is not something you can shop for.
What regulated price applies in Tasmania?
Regulated standing offer prices, set by the Tasmanian Economic Regulator for 1 July 2026 – 30 June 2027. Tasmania is in the NEM but does NOT use the Default Market Offer. Standing-offer prices are approved by the Tasmanian Economic Regulator — for 2026-27 they were approved on 25 June 2026, rising an average of 4.23%. The regulator also set the state's solar feed-in tariff at 9.276 c/kWh.
What electricity concessions can I get in Tasmania?
The main one is the Annual Electricity Concession, $1.84347 per day (about $673 a year). Paid as a daily rate against your account rather than a lump sum. Eligibility and amounts are set by government and change — always confirm with the official source before relying on a figure.
When is peak electricity time in Tasmania?
TasNetworks: 7am–10am and 4pm–9pm, weekdays. These are the network windows published by each distributor, not your retailer’s billing windows — a retail plan can bill different times. We use your own plan’s rates when we cost a comparison.
How clean is Tasmania's electricity grid?
Over the last 85 days of AEMO's carbon-intensity index, the TAS1 region averaged about 3 grams of CO2-e per kilowatt-hour, which ranks 1 of 5 NEM regions we track (1 = cleanest). This is an emissions figure, not a price signal: your rate is set by your plan and does not move with the grid.
Does EnergySorted take commissions from Tasmania retailers?
No. We take no commission from any retailer, which is why we can tell you to stay put when staying put is right. You pay a small yearly subscription (around $39), so the ranking answers to you.
Where these facts come from
Every figure on this page was checked against a government primary source. Where we could not verify a number, we left it out rather than estimate it — that is the whole reason to pay us instead of trusting a page funded by retailer commissions.
