Just got solar or a battery? Your old bills can't find you the right plan
Once you have panels or a battery, last year's bills describe a home you no longer live in. We model your new usage hour by hour - what you'll still import, what you'll send back to the grid - and price every plan available to you. No bills needed.
Why your old bills can't answer this
- 1Your import has collapsedThe kWh on your last bill is what you used before your solar installation. Solar covers a large part of it now and a battery covers most of the rest, so a plan chosen based on your old consumption is the wrong one for you now.
- 2Your export isn't on the bill at allWhat you send back to the grid reduces your bill, so for a lot of solar homes the feed-in tariff and the daily supply charge matter far more than the usage rate.
- 3The hours have moved, not just the totalsA battery changes when you draw from the grid - overnight instead of at the evening peak. That decides which plan wins and it's something a daily total can't show.
Answer a few questions
Twelve quick questions about your home - your solar size, your battery, hot water, heating, aircon. We build your usage profile from scratch, then compare the cost of every plan available to you.
- You need
- Nothing but your postcode
- Accuracy
- Your usage modelled hour by hour, exact plan pricing
No solar yet? We've still got you covered. Answer the questions about the home you have and we'll model it as it stands.
How it works
- 1Tell us about your energy usageUse our advanced estimation engine to model it based on a few questions, or simply enter your values directly.
- 2We cost every standard electricity plan available to youWe take your usage profile and run it through our pricing engine to calculate the cost of every electricity plan available to you - seasonal rates, time-of-use windows, feed-in tariffs, supply charges, controlled load and discounts included.
- 3See the real yearly costWe rank all the plans available to you cheapest first, with a line-by-line breakdown of how each price was reached and a link straight to the retailer to sign up.
What we do differently
Ranked on what you'd actually pay- Every plan is costed against your own usage, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year - not sorted by an advertised headline rate.
- Free midday electricity, costedNew
- The government have mandated free electricity windows in some states from July 2026. We find these, read them out of the fine print, and cost them against the hours you'd actually use them - daily kWh cap and all.
- Solar feed-in valued properly
- For users with large solar systems, electricity rates are of little importance and other comparison sites fall flat because of this. We fully cost the things that matter to solar users like feed-in rates and the daily supply charge so that you can get the best return on your solar investment.
- Bonuses and perks priced, not promised
- Sign-up credits, loyalty points and bundled memberships are valued and can be added into a year-one price - each one optional, so you can pick what's of value to you.
- Controlled load done right
- 1 in 4 homes have a separate circuit for hot water or a pool pump - this changes which plan wins. We price plans on the circuits you actually have, at the hours you actually use them.
- No account, no email, no cookies
- There's nothing to sign up for. We never ask for your name, your email or street address, and nothing you enter is tied to you.
Why trust the ranking
SmartOur estimation and pricing engines model your usage hour by hour - solar, battery, climate zone and allIndependentWe rank plans using only their estimated cost to you - no sponsored listings at the topComprehensive9,000+ residential plans, from every retailer on the national registerUp-to-dateAll electricity plans are refreshed and re-costed every night