c/kWh - Source frequency: monthly · Methodology · Corrections
Australia's average electricity price was 33.5 c/kWh as of January 2026. Average retail electricity price paid by households, shown nationally with drill-down by state. Electricity costs affect household budgets and business competitiveness. Australia has among the highest electricity prices in the OECD. Data is sourced from AER Retail Energy Data; ABS Selected Living Cost Indexes and updated monthly.
Ranked by latest value (lower is better)
| Rank | State | Value |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | TasmaniaTAS | 28c/kWh |
| 2 | VictoriaVIC | 29c/kWh |
| 3 | Australian Capital TerritoryACT | 31c/kWh |
| 4 | QueenslandQLD | 33c/kWh |
| 5 | Northern TerritoryNT | 33c/kWh |
| 6 | Western AustraliaWA | 33.5c/kWh |
| 7 | New South WalesNSW | 36.5c/kWh |
| 8 | South AustraliaSA | 44c/kWh |
Average retail electricity price paid by households, shown nationally with drill-down by state.
Electricity costs affect household budgets and business competitiveness. Australia has among the highest electricity prices in the OECD.
This data is sourced programmatically from official statistical APIs and data feeds (AER Retail Energy Data; ABS Selected Living Cost Indexes), updated monthly. The source link above points to the human-readable publication page, which presents the same underlying data in a different format (e.g. Excel workbook, PDF release). Our pipeline fetches the machine-readable version automatically and converts it to the standardised format shown here.
See all sources and methodology on the data sources page.
