Electricity · New South Wales · Essential Energy network · from the regulator's feed
1st Energy 1st Emerald - Single Rate
1st Energy's 1st Emerald - Single Rate on the Essential Energy electricity network (New South Wales) costs an estimated $147 a month for a household using 4,000 kWh a year, 30th cheapest of 372 published plans on the network at that usage (median $176). Rates: 200.40c a day supply and 25.70c per kWh. At the regulator's 4,600 kWh benchmark it comes to $1,914 a year against the DMO 2026-27 reference price of $2,604, $690 below it. Read from the retailer's rates as published to the Australian Energy Regulator on 8 Nov 2026 (retailer's record last updated 26 Oct 2026). GST as published; conditional discounts, controlled load and feed-in excluded from the estimate.
In one line
1st Energy's 1st Emerald - Single Rate costs an estimated $147 a month, $1,759 a year, for a typical household using 4,000 kWh a year on the Essential Energy network (New South Wales), 30th cheapest of 372 published plans, priced at 25.70c/kWh plus 200.40c a day with solar feed-in 1.00c/kWh and a 0.04% guaranteed discount, as read from the regulator's feed on 8 Nov 2026. The cheapest is Sumo's Winter Saver Plus at $143 a month. See Sumo's plan.
Cheapest on the Essential Energy network today
The lowest published estimates at 4,000 kWh a year, one retailer each, as read from the regulator's feed on 8 Nov 2026. Ranked on estimated cost alone; nothing is promoted.
Cheapest · our recommendation4,000 kWh a year on Essential Energy · price read 2026-11-08$143/mo$1,713/yr
Alternative · 2nd cheapest4,000 kWh a year on Essential Energy · price read 2026-11-08$143/mo$1,715/yr
Alternative · 3rd cheapest4,000 kWh a year on Essential Energy · price read 2026-11-08$144/mo$1,729/yr
What it costs
Supply charge plus usage at each annual figure, from the published rates. Your retailer's quote is the price you pay.
Unchanged since the 7 Nov 2026 snapshot. Dated record for 8 Nov 2026
The rate card
As published to the regulator; cents including GST where the retailer publishes it that way.
- Supply charge
- 200.40c a day
- Usage
- 25.70c per kWh
- Controlled load
- none published
- Solar feed-in
- 1.00c per kWh
- Discounts
- 0.04% guaranteed
- Who can take this plan, as the retailer states it
- This offer is available for customers currently taking supply on a corresponding single rate network tariff. For further details on the information presented in this fact sheet, or the terms and conditions of the offer, please visit www.1stenergy.com.au or call 1st Energy on 1300 426 594.
How the estimate is built: supply + single usage rate at 2000/4000/6000 kWh/yr; GST as published; discounts, controlled load and feed-in excluded
Against the reference price
The DMO 2026-27 is the regulator's benchmark for this network; it is the figure every bill compares itself to.
At the regulator's 4,600 kWh a year this plan comes to $1,914 a year. The DMO 2026-27 reference price is $2,604, so this plan is $690 below it. Regulator's determination
Where this plan applies
Electricity offers are published per distribution network, so the rates above hold for every postcode on it.
Every plan on the Essential Energy network
- 2311 · Gresford
- 2386 · Nowley
- 2444 · Port Macquarie
- 2488 · Bogangar
- 2629 · Adaminaby
- 2703 · Yanco
- 2798 · Byng
- 2850 · Lue
To see this plan against every other plan at your own usage: compare for a postcode and change the postcode and kWh to yours.
Related plans
The brand's page, the comparison this plan is ranked in, and the plans most like it. Every price on them is read from the same data as this page.
Source: the retailer's plan as published to the Australian Energy Regulator (Energy Made Easy record 1ST1213185MRE1), re-read nightly. Ranked on estimated cost alone; nothing is promoted. How this is collected