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Electricity plans in The Gap, QLD 4061.

917 plans from 26 retailers are sold to homes in The Gap right now, every one priced from the regulator’s own plan data. Here is what they cost a home your size, what tends to decide bills in The Gap, and how to find out where your own plan sits. Your postcode is already filled in.

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The market in 4061

What electricity costs in The Gap on typical usage.

On typical usage for a home of 3 people, the 917 plans sold in The Gap cost between about $1,790 and $7,680 a year at their current rates with no conditional discounts counted, and a middle-of-the-road plan costs about $450 a year more than the best one.

What the generally available plans cost a home in The Gap on typical usage, a year, at their current rates with no conditional discounts counted. Plan data as at 30 September 2026.
People at homePlansBest planMiddle planDearest planGap, best to middleMiddle plan, a quarterPriced on, kWh a year
1 person917$1,270$1,620$4,800$350$4103,300
2 people917$1,580$1,990$6,500$410$5004,600
3 people917$1,790$2,240$7,680$450$5605,500
4 people917$1,990$2,490$8,870$500$6206,400
5 or more people917$2,260$2,840$10,440$580$7107,600

Estimates of the market, not a recommendation or a quote. Typical usage is a benchmark for a home of that size in the Energex area with no solar (about 5,500 kWh a year for 3 people, our own working figure until the regulator's published benchmark is loaded), priced by the same engine as the paid check on the Australian Energy Regulator’s plan data. Your own usage, your tariff and any solar change the answer, and a home with solar panels usually imports much less than this.

Who sells here

Electricity retailers selling in The Gap.

26 retailers sold a generally available plan a typical home in The Gap could take on 30 September 2026, according to the Australian Energy Regulator's plan data:

1st Energy · AGL · Alinta Energy · Amber Electric · CovaU · Diamond Energy · Dodo · Energy Locals Urban · EnergyAustralia · ENGIE · ERC Energy · Flipped Energy · Flow Power · Future X Power · GEE Energy · Globird Energy · Kogan Energy · Momentum Energy · Nectr · Next Business Energy · Origin Energy · OVO Energy · Powershop · Red Energy · Sumo · Tango Energy

Alphabetical, not a ranking. The cheapest plan for your home could be from any of them, and none of them pays us anything.

By tariff

The cheapest single-rate, time-of-use, demand and Solar Sharer plan in The Gap.

The cheapest plan of each kind for a home in The Gap on typical usage, a year, at current rates with no conditional discounts counted, and how many plans of that kind are sold. Time-of-use, demand and Solar Sharer plans need a smart meter. Plan data as at 30 September 2026.
People at homeSingle rateTime of useDemandSolar SharerPriced on, kWh a year
1 person$1,300 (307 plans)$1,270 (473 plans)none sold$1,390 (137 plans)3,300
2 people$1,590 (307 plans)$1,580 (473 plans)none sold$1,700 (137 plans)4,600
3 people$1,790 (307 plans)$1,790 (473 plans)none sold$1,920 (137 plans)5,500
4 people$1,990 (307 plans)$2,000 (473 plans)none sold$2,130 (137 plans)6,400
5 or more people$2,260 (307 plans)$2,280 (473 plans)none sold$2,420 (137 plans)7,600

The plans are the same across the Energex network. Your usage is not.

The Gap is in the Brisbane City Council area, and Energex delivers its electricity. Every generally available residential plan on the Australian Energy Regulator’s feed is sold across the whole Energex network, so The Gap has exactly the choice Ashgrove has, and exactly the choice Brisbane, the Gold Coast and the Sunshine Coast have. What changes from home to home is the usage the plan is priced on, the meter, the solar and the hot water. That is why the free scan prices a typical home, and the paid check prices yours.

What tends to matter in The Gap

The Gap is mostly established detached homes. Beyond the plan itself, these are the things that tend to decide what a home like that pays:

  • Detached homes with air-conditioning have a pronounced summer evening peak. On a time-of-use plan that is the dearest window of the day, so a single-rate plan should always be priced beside it.
  • Electric storage hot water on Tariff 31 or 33 is common in established suburbs. A plan's controlled-load rate then matters as much as its general rate, and a plan that publishes none should not be on your shortlist.
  • Rooftop solar changes the picture entirely: exports are credited at a rate each retailer sets itself, and a high feed-in tariff paired with a high usage rate is the most common trap in the market.

Brisbane's housing runs from inner-city apartments to post-war homes on quarter-acre blocks, so usage varies more than anywhere else in the region. Air-conditioning through the humid summer is the biggest single load in most detached homes, rooftop solar is on a large share of them, and electric storage hot water on a controlled load is still common in older suburbs.

How to check your own plan from The Gap

  1. Run the free Quick Scan with 4061 and how many people live at home, for the figures above at your household size.
  2. Upload a recent bill and we read your actual tariff and usage, price every plan on it and name the three worth switching to, with a reason and a watch-out for each.
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Quick answers for The Gap.

Who is the cheapest electricity provider in The Gap?

There is no one cheapest retailer in The Gap. The cheapest plan depends on how much electricity your home uses and when, whether you have solar or a controlled load, and what meter you have. On typical usage for a home of 3 people, the plans sold in The Gap cost between about $1,790 and $7,680 a year at their current rates with no conditional discounts counted, so an ordinary plan and the best one are about $450 a year apart. The only way to name the cheapest for your home is to price every plan on your own bill.

How many electricity plans are available in The Gap?

917 generally available residential electricity plans from 26 retailers were open to a home of 3 people in The Gap on 30 September 2026, according to the Australian Energy Regulator's plan data. Every one of them is sold across the whole Energex network, so The Gap has exactly the same choice as every other South East Queensland suburb; what differs from home to home is usage, not the plans.

Is The Gap on the Energex network?

Yes. The Gap is in the Brisbane City Council area, which Energex serves, and postcode 4061 is inside the Energex distribution area. Energex owns the poles, wires and meters and delivers the electricity whichever retailer you pay, and its area is the only part of Queensland where households can choose a retailer. Regional Queensland is served by Ergon Energy on prices the regulator sets.

Can I get the Solar Sharer Offer in The Gap?

Yes, if your home has a smart meter. Every retailer with more than 1,000 customers must offer a Solar Sharer plan in South East Queensland, with electricity free between 11am and 2pm every day, and it is open to renters and homes without solar. It is a plan you opt into, not a discount on the one you have, and it is paid for by higher rates outside the window, so it only saves money for a home in The Gap that can move a real share of its usage into the middle of the day.

Which retailers sell electricity in The Gap?

26 retailers sold a generally available plan a typical home in The Gap could take on 30 September 2026, according to the Australian Energy Regulator's plan data: 1st Energy, AGL, Alinta Energy, Amber Electric, CovaU, Diamond Energy, Dodo, Energy Locals Urban, EnergyAustralia, ENGIE, ERC Energy, Flipped Energy, Flow Power, Future X Power, GEE Energy, Globird Energy, Kogan Energy, Momentum Energy, Nectr, Next Business Energy, Origin Energy, OVO Energy, Powershop, Red Energy, Sumo, Tango Energy. The list is alphabetical and not a ranking; the cheapest plan for your home could be from any of them, and every one of them is sold across the whole Energex network.

Is a time-of-use plan cheaper than a single-rate plan in The Gap?

On typical usage for a home of 3 people, the cheapest single-rate plan sold in The Gap costs about $1,790 a year and the cheapest time-of-use plan about $1,790, at current rates with no conditional discounts counted, as at 30 September 2026. Which is cheaper for your home depends on how much of your usage falls in the evening peak: a home that can keep the dishwasher, the pool pump and the car charger out of it does better on time of use, a home that cooks and cools through the evening does not, and a time-of-use plan needs a smart meter.

What is the average electricity bill in The Gap?

On typical usage and a middle-of-the-road plan, a home of 2 people in The Gap pays about $1,990 a year, or about $500 a quarter, and a home of 4 people about $2,490 a year, or about $620 a quarter, at the plans' current rates with no conditional discounts counted, as at 30 September 2026. The best plan on the market is about $410 a year below that for the smaller home and about $500 for the larger. A home with solar usually imports much less than typical usage, and a home with a pool or electric hot water more, so your own bill is the only figure that is actually yours.

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