Solar Feed-in Tariffs New South Wales October 2026: 4,338 Plans, Median 3c, Best Unconditional 25c

Where New South Wales's 4,338 plans sit

Each of the 4,338 New South Wales plans is counted once at its highest retailer-paid rate (fit_max_c), whether that rate is unconditional, capped or paid only in a window; government scheme rates are excluded. 384 of the 4,338 plans pay nothing for exports, 883 pay under 2c, and 449 pay 10c or more, nearly all of them time-window or battery plans. The median unconditional rate is 3c, the same as the all-plan median for New South Wales.

Every retailer's best plan in New South Wales, ranked

One row per retailer brand: its plan with the highest retailer-paid rate in New South Wales, ranked by that rate. 17 of the 28 rows are conditional plans, labelled with the condition from the record; a window is the hours the top rate applies. Usage rates are the first general rate in the record (the peak rate on a time-of-use plan) and supply charges are the daily charge; all New South Wales records are hosted for Energy Made Easy (plan IDs ending @EME) and publish them GST inclusive. Plan data read 27 October 2026.

Best unconditional plan per retailer in New South Wales

2,231 of the 4,338 plans carry no condition in their record: no cap, no step, no battery, VPP, bundle or membership requirement and no negative rate. This table takes the highest unconditional rate of each of the 18 New South Wales retailers that have one, breaking ties on the lowest usage rate. A time window is not treated as a condition, and 68 of the 2,231 unconditional New South Wales plans carry one, so the hours column still matters: a rate paid 17:00 to 20:59 every day pays nothing on midday exports.

By distributor in New South Wales

The median is 3c in every one of the three New South Wales distribution zones, so the feed-in tariff does not change with the network; the usage rates and supply charges in the tables above do, which is why the same retailer plan appears with different usage figures in different zones.

The government benchmark in New South Wales

IPART, the New South Wales regulator, publishes a benchmark range for solar feed-in tariffs each year. It is a guide, not a minimum, and no retailer has to pay it. On 27 October 2026 ipart.nsw.gov.au refused every connection from our machine, so we could not read the 2026-27 range and we do not print one. The figure will be filled in at the next review, 24 November 2026.

What the rate is worth on a Sydney 6.6 kW system

A 6.6 kW system in Sydney makes about 9,398 kWh a year (1,424 kWh per kW from the Clean Energy Council yield table for Sydney, multiplied by 6.6). At 35 per cent self-consumption, the assumption behind every saving figure on this site, 6,109 kWh leaves a Sydney roof for the grid, so each 1c of New South Wales feed-in tariff is worth about $61 a year.

The 25c figure is an upper bound: Ezi Power pays it only 17:00 to 20:59 every day, and a fixed rooftop array sends most of its export out before that window opens. The usage rate on the same plan decides whether the extra $1,344 between the New South Wales median and the best rate survives: the hub page works through two plans in one zone, and the payback calculator takes your own rates. For the cost side, see solar panel costs and is solar worth it in New South Wales.

Read the whole plan, not the headline rate

The feed-in figure in a retailer's advertising is usually the top of a structure, and the 4,338 New South Wales records read 27 October 2026 show four kinds of it.

• Caps. 482 New South Wales plans pay their top rate only on the first few kWh exported each day (the CDR field up_to_kwh_per_day), then drop to a lower step. The most common cap is 8 kWh a day (302 plans), used by 1st Energy, AGL, ActewAGL and Alinta Energy. Origin and AGL, which publish 108 of the 482 capped New South Wales plans, describe the cap as a daily limit averaged across the billing period. A Sydney 6.6 kW system exporting 6,109 kWh a year averages 16.7 kWh a day, so an 8 kWh cap bites on most spring and summer days.
• Time windows. 439 New South Wales plans pay their top rate only in stated hours, most often late afternoon and evening, and a lower rate or 0c at other times. In New South Wales the window column above carries hours for 7 of the 28 ranked retailers; the exports that fall outside those hours earn the other rate.
• Negative rates. No New South Wales plan in the data publishes a negative rate; in South Australia iO Energy does, which is why that state's page carries a warning.
• Wholesale estimates. 37 plans, from Amber Electric and Ezi Power, publish an estimated wholesale export price rather than a fixed rate; the record says the price is not fixed and the estimate assumes a stated household. They are labelled conditional.
• Export credits booked as incentives. 84 plans carry an export credit in the incentives part of the record instead of the feed-in field, for example GloBird Energy's Super Export Credit of 10c on the first 15 kWh exported between 6pm and 9pm. The feed-in figure for those 84 New South Wales plans understates what they can pay; the summary file lists the incentive text.

New South Wales feed-in tariff questions

Other states and the retailers serving New South Wales

The national feed-in tariff page has the six-state table and the regulated rates. Retailer pages for the brands with plans in New South Wales: 1st Energy, ActewAGL, AGL, Alinta Energy, Amber Electric, CovaU, Diamond Energy, Dodo Power & Gas, EnergyAustralia, ENGIE (Simply Energy), Flipped Energy, Flow Power, Future X Power, GloBird Energy, Kogan Energy, Momentum Energy, Nectr, Next Business Energy, Origin Energy, OVO Energy, Powershop, Red Energy, Sumo, Tango Energy.

• Victoria: median 1c, 3,230 plans
• Queensland: median 2c, 1,349 plans
• South Australia: median 1c, 612 plans
• ACT: median 5c, 546 plans
• Tasmania: median 10.87c, 75 plans