Electricity Plans in Red Cliffs 3496
What’s the cheapest electricity plan in Red Cliffs?
Cheapest plan, on average
The cheapest electricity plan currently available in Red Cliffs 3496, assuming generic and average household usage and eligibility, is 1st Emerald, Residential - Time of Use at $1,054/yr from 1st Energy, as of 4 November 2026. 204 residential plans are compared below.
This is a generic annual assessment only, and assumes:
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 417 electricity plans available in Red Cliffs, Victoria, and only one of them is the best-priced for you.
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Compare 417 electricity plans available in Red Cliffs, Victoria — 204 residential (ranked above) and 213 business. Distribution network: Powercor. Plans requiring solar panels, batteries, or EV chargers are excluded from this generic comparison.
Price history
How have electricity prices changed in Red Cliffs?
At 4,745 kWh a year, the cheapest plan in Red Cliffs costs $1,390/yr today, down from a peak of $1,589/yr in July 25. The market average is $1,746/yr.
Prices shown are quarterly estimates based on 13 kWh/day usage under Single Rate tariffs. Includes all available discounts and GST. Excludes once-off fees and charges. Data from grouply.co CDR pipeline.
Bill breakdown
Where does an electricity bill in Red Cliffs go?
The VDO reference price assuming consumption of 4,000 kWh per year is $1,703 per year. 33%, or $566 of that, is the Powercordistribution 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 Powercor residential single-rate distribution tariff (D1) is 41.10c a day plus 10.39c/kWh. The cheapest plan listed on this page charges 28.70c/kWh, so 18.31c/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 Red Cliffs beat the reference price?
93% of the 228 market offers available in Red Cliffs (211 of 228) are at or below the VDO of $1,703/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: Victorian Default Offer 2025-26 (Essential Services Commission Victoria). 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 Red Cliffs by household size
In Red Cliffs 3496, estimated annual costs by household size are 1 person (3,000 kWh a year): $826/yr cheapest, $1,200/yr average; 2 people (4,000 kWh a year): $990/yr cheapest, $1,450/yr average; 3 people (5,000 kWh a year): $1,154/yr cheapest, $1,700/yr average; 4 or more people (8,000 kWh a year): $1,646/yr cheapest, $2,450/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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All plans
Compare every electricity plan in RED CLIFFS
Annual cost at 4,000 kWh/yr with the default load curve. Cheapest first. Showing 8 of 204 plans.
1st Energy1st Emerald, Residential - Time of Use with Controlled LoadTime of useSwitch95.300.5$1,054
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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 228 residential electricity offers serving Red Cliffs 3496; last refreshed 4 November 2026.
Reference prices are the published regulated benchmarks for each distribution network, set by Essential Services Commission Victoria. 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