Electricity Plans in Balaklava 5461
What’s the cheapest electricity plan in Balaklava?
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The cheapest single-rate plan in Balaklava 5461 is 1st Emerald - Single Rate from 1st Energy at $1,716/yr, and the cheapest time-of-use plan is 1st Emerald - Time of Use from 1st Energy at $1,672/yr, as of 7 November 2026. 245 residential plans are compared below.
Best priced plans on average
Single rate
26% below the DMO
This is a generic annual assessment only, and assumes:
Time of use
27% below the DMOThis is a generic annual assessment only, and assumes:
Usage split assumed: Assumes ~51% peak, ~27% shoulder and ~21% off-peak usage.
Your actual time-of-use bill depends on when you use power.
That is the generic ‘best-priced’ plan answer. The actual best-priced plan for you may well be different.
But you’re not average, are you?
There are 449 electricity plans available in Balaklava, South Australia, and only one of them is the best-priced for you.
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Compare 449 electricity plans available in Balaklava, South Australia — 245 residential (ranked above) and 204 business. Distribution network: SA Power Networks. Plans requiring solar panels, batteries, or EV chargers are excluded from this generic comparison.
Bill breakdown
Where does an electricity bill in Balaklava go?
The DMO reference price assuming consumption of 4,000 kWh per year is $2,334 per year. 35%, or $806 of that, is the SA Power Networksdistribution network charge, which pays for the ‘poles and wires’ and other physical infrastructure that delivers power to your home. This charge remains the same no matter which retailer you buy your energy through.
The SA Power Networks residential single-rate distribution tariff (RSR) is 61.85c a day plus 14.51c/kWh. The cheapest plan listed on this page charges 30.80c/kWh, so 16.29c/kWh of that rate covers energy and retail.
Distribution charges are the published residential single-rate tariff from the Australian Energy Regulator’s network tariff schedules. Customers on a time-of-use or demand distribution tariff pay a different network amount.
Offers vs the reference price
How many electricity offers in Balaklava beat the reference price?
87% of the 256 market offers available in Balaklava (223 of 256) are at or below the DMO of $2,334/yr at 4,000 kWh a year.
Default Offer prices tend to get the most media coverage, because they are the most simple and visible part of the retailer energy pricing confusopoly. However, most energy consumers are on Market Offers, which start off cheaper than Default Offers — you want a plan that’s right over to the left side of this chart. Inevitably, over time, if you don’t monitor your bills and don’t switch to stay on a competitively priced plan, your plan will drift toward the right, and could wind up costing even more than the ‘safety net’ Default Offer price.
Number of plans by annual cost, $100 bands, at 4,000 kWh/yr.
Reference price: Default Market Offer 2026-27 (DMO 8) (Australian Energy Regulator). Each offer is compared at the reference consumption its own network uses, so both sides of the comparison describe the same household.
By household size
Average electricity bill in Balaklava by household size
In Balaklava 5461, estimated annual costs by household size are 1 person (3,000 kWh a year): $1,118/yr cheapest, $1,707/yr average; 2 people (4,000 kWh a year): $1,362/yr cheapest, $2,089/yr average; 3 people (5,000 kWh a year): $1,606/yr cheapest, $2,470/yr average; 4 or more people (8,000 kWh a year): $2,340/yr cheapest, $3,615/yr average.
Usage bands are indicative household sizes, not a measurement of any particular home. Costs are the plans’ own published annual estimates at each usage.
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These prices are based on average consumption benchmarks.
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Methodology and data
Plan rates and annual cost estimates are read from the Consumer Data Right (CDR) energy plan register, which every retailer is required to publish, and refreshed daily. This page lists 256 residential electricity offers serving Balaklava 5461; last refreshed 7 November 2026.
Reference prices are the published regulated benchmarks for each distribution network, set by Australian Energy Regulator. Each offer is compared with its own network’s reference price at that network’s reference consumption. Networks with no published reference price carry no percentage comparison on this page rather than a substituted figure.
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Source: Consumer Data Right (CDR) Energy Plan Data · Full methodology