Your gas network: Australian Gas Networks. Monthly figures are our estimates at 20,000 MJ a year, not retailer quotes.
How we estimate gas: every monthly figure is an estimate, not a quote. Basis: supply + block usage rate at 20000 MJ/yr; GST as published; discounts excluded. Usage is spread evenly through the year; a home that heats with gas uses most of it in winter, when block rates may differ. Source: Australian Energy Regulator Product Reference Data via Energy Made Easy, re-read through the day; each plan links to its record.
One card per state at 4,000 kWh a year, from the regulator's listings read 2026-11-08. Estimates from published rates, not retailer quotes; the network a home is on decides its price.
Which end of each state's range you are at depends on your bill. Check your bill against every published plan: postcode, the kWh on the bill and the amount.
Each guide opens with the figure as read tonight and hands off to the retailer.
How an electricity bill is priced: supply, usage, time of use and controlled load · Reading the reference price: what the DMO and VDO mean on a bill · Solar feed-in tariffs: the highest rate is not the cheapest plan · Choosing an electricity plan by household size · Choosing a gas plan · Moving house: which electricity plans apply at the new address · Business electricity: what the published plans cost · Electricity rebates and concessions, state by state
The 1 July price reset: each network's 2026-27 default offer against today's cheapest plan
Most comparison sites show a fraction of the market: the retailers that pay to be listed. OpenStream prices every plan every retailer publishes to the Australian Energy Regulator and Victorian Energy Compare, 9,623 published offers priced from 40 retailers in the regulator's listings, re-read nightly. Nothing is promoted, every plan links to the regulator's record, and the whole dataset is free to download.
