Standing Offer Rates for Residential and Small Business Customers

For period 1 July 2026 to 30 June 2027

Regulations require us to provide standard offer rates for residential and small business customers who would receive electricity supply from us under the terms of the Standard Retail Contract.  These rates are covered by the conditions of the Default Market Offer Prices and Tariff Caps set by the Australian Energy Regulator.

Qualifying customers are:

  • those who have moved into a premise and receive supply from us, but have yet to contact us; or
  • our existing customers on the Market Retail Contract who ask us to switch them to the Standard Retail Contract.

Customers on standing offer rates cannot trade in Localvolts peer-to-peer market.

Standing Offer Rates

We meet our obligations by offering our standing offer rates for customers located in the relevant distributor’s service area.

Our standard offer rates are:

DistributorItemResidential (without Controlled Load)Small Business
AusgridUsage Rate Daily Rate33.1372 c/kWh 166.2289 c/day31.6293 c/kWh 372.7476 c/day
Endeavour EnergyUsage Rate Daily Rate33.7273 c/kWh 185.1350 c/day34.5198 c/kWh 244.1375 c/day
Essential EnergyUsage Rate Daily Rate35.0054 c/kWh 272.2168 c/day40.3667 c/kWh 405.6542 c/day
EnergexUsage Rate Daily Rate27.9744 c/kWh 192.0159 c/day28.9359 c/kWh 261.6257 c/day
SA Power NetworksUsage Rate Daily Rate41.9103 c/kWh 180.0512 c/day44.8449 c/kWh 185.5810 c/day

Residential customers with controlled loads are charged additional amounts according to table below.  Controlled loads classification is determined by the distributor.

DistributorItemControlled Load 1Controlled Load 2
AusgridUsage Rate Daily Rate19.3094 c/kWh 4.7312 c/day23.0050 c/kWh 8.8734 c/day
Endeavour EnergyUsage Rate Daily Rate20.6438 c/kWh 13.8929 c/day22.0861 c/kWh 13.8927 c/day
Essential EnergyUsage Rate Daily Rate19.8887 c/kWh 15.6605 c/day23.9799 c/kWh 15.6605 c/day
EnergexUsage Rate Daily Rate16.4323 c/kWh 0.00 c/day16.7451 c/kWh 0.00 c/day
SA Power NetworksUsage Rate Daily Rate22.2497 c/kWh 0.00 c/day

All rates are inclusive of GST.