Solar Feed-in Tariffs South Australia October 2026: 612 Plans, Median 1c, Best Unconditional 25c

Where South Australia's 612 plans sit

Each of the 612 South Australia 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. 80 of the 612 plans pay nothing for exports, 342 pay under 2c, and 34 pay 10c or more, nearly all of them time-window or battery plans. The median unconditional rate is 1c, the same as the all-plan median for South Australia.

Every retailer's best plan in South Australia, ranked

One row per retailer brand: its plan with the highest retailer-paid rate in South Australia, ranked by that rate. 13 of the 27 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 South Australia 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 South Australia

317 of the 612 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 19 South Australia retailers that have one, breaking ties on the lowest usage rate. A time window is not treated as a condition, and 9 of the 317 unconditional South Australia plans carry one, so the hours column still matters: a rate paid 06:00 to 09:59 and 16:00 to 23:59 every day pays nothing on midday exports.

By distributor in South Australia

South Australia has one distribution network, SA Power Networks, so every plan in the state is priced for the same zone and there is no distributor split to read.

The government benchmark in South Australia

South Australia has no regulated feed-in tariff and no published benchmark; the retailer sets the rate and can set it at 0c. 80 of the 612 South Australian plans do, and one retailer, iO Energy, publishes a negative rate, which charges for exports in some periods.

What the rate is worth on a Adelaide 6.6 kW system

A 6.6 kW system in Adelaide makes about 10,118 kWh a year (1,533 kWh per kW from the Clean Energy Council yield table for Adelaide, multiplied by 6.6). At 35 per cent self-consumption, the assumption behind every saving figure on this site, 6,577 kWh leaves an Adelaide roof for the grid, so each 1c of South Australia feed-in tariff is worth about $66 a year.

The 25c figure is an upper bound: Ezi Power pays it only 06:00 to 09:59 and 16:00 to 23:59 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 $1,578 between the South Australia 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 South Australia.

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 612 South Australia records read 27 October 2026 show five kinds of it.

• Caps. 62 South Australia 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 (44 plans), used by 1st Energy, AGL, Alinta Energy and ENGIE. Origin and AGL, which publish 26 of the 62 capped South Australia plans, describe the cap as a daily limit averaged across the billing period. A Adelaide 6.6 kW system exporting 6,577 kWh a year averages 18.0 kWh a day, so an 8 kWh cap bites on most spring and summer days.
• Time windows. 34 South Australia 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 South Australia the window column above carries hours for 7 of the 27 ranked retailers; the exports that fall outside those hours earn the other rate.
• Negative rates. 10 South Australia plans publish a negative feed-in rate: iO Energy's plans list -5c, which charges the customer for exports in some periods. They are labelled conditional here and never counted as a best offer.
• Wholesale estimates. 13 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. 19 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 19 South Australia plans understates what they can pay; the summary file lists the incentive text.

South Australia feed-in tariff questions

Other states and the retailers serving South Australia

The national feed-in tariff page has the six-state table and the regulated rates. Retailer pages for the brands with plans in South Australia: 1st Energy, 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, Lumo Energy, Momentum Energy, Nectr, Next Business Energy, Origin Energy, OVO Energy, Powershop, Red Energy, Sumo, Tango Energy.

• New South Wales: median 3c, 4,338 plans
• Victoria: median 1c, 3,230 plans
• Queensland: median 2c, 1,349 plans
• ACT: median 5c, 546 plans
• Tasmania: median 10.87c, 75 plans