Feed-in tariff for regional Queensland
If you live outside South East Queensland, you may be able to access the regional (flat rate) feed-in tariff (the default rate) (Ergon Energy customers and Origin Energy customers).
Regional (flat rate) feed-in tariff
Eligibility
To find out if you’re eligible, contact your electricity distributor:
- Ergon Energy Retail if you’re connected to the Ergon Energy network
- Origin Energy if you’re connected to the Essential Energy network.
To be eligible, you have to:
- operate a solar system with a maximum inverter capacity not exceeding 30 kilowatts
- consume less than 100 megawatt hours (MWh) of electricity a year (the average home uses approximately 6.1MWh a year)
- be a retail customer of either Ergon Energy or Origin Energy (if you’re connected to the Essential Energy network)
- be connected to the electricity grid
- have a network connection agreement with an electricity distributor signalling their approval to connect the system to the electricity grid
- have only one solar power system receiving the feed-in tariff per premise
- not be receiving any other tariff (i.e. the 44 cent/kWh feed-in tariff).
Tariff
The Queensland Competition Authority sets this rate each year.
- For the 2019–2020 year, the regional feed-in tariff is 7.842 cents per kilowatt hour.
If something goes wrong
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