Compare electricity plans by a year of your bill.

From the Australian Energy Regulator. Every retailer must file every plan it offers with the AER, which publishes them through the Consumer Data Right, the same data behind Energy Made Easy and Victorian Energy Compare. We read that feed every night. Prices depend on where you live, so we show only the plans filed for your postcode.

Because it decides which plan is cheapest. Most plans now charge more in the evening peak and less overnight or in the middle of the day, so the same plan can be the cheapest for a home that’s empty on weekdays and one of the dearer ones for a home that’s busy all day. If you’re not sure, we price every plan three ways and tell you which stay cheap whatever your pattern. Your smart-meter file answers it exactly.

It stays in your browser. The page reads it on your device, works out your usage by hour, month and weekday, and keeps only that summary on this device so the results remember it. The file itself is never uploaded to us. You can ask your retailer or electricity distributor for it: ask for your interval data in NEM12 format.

Yes. Retailers file their rates and supply charges without GST, so we add it once. Guaranteed discounts are taken off; a discount you get only for paying on time or by direct debit is shown on the plan but not counted, since it depends on you. A sign-up credit counts in the first year only.

Some plans can only be taken through a comparison site or a partner, or only by members of a club, seniors card holders or existing customers, so we can’t send you to them and we leave them out. Plans made for homes with solar, a battery or an electric car are shown only if you say you have one. Wholesale-price plans, like Amber and Flow Power, publish only an estimate of prices that change every five minutes, so they’re marked as estimates and never ranked against fixed prices.