Tariff 93 Tasmania: Times, 2026–27 Rates and How It Compares With 31, 41 and 97

Quick answer: Tariff 93 is Tasmania’s default residential time-of-use tariff. New home connections have gone onto it since 1 July 2024. Power costs more in two weekday peaks (7am–10am and 4pm–9pm, or 8am–11am and 5pm–10pm in daylight saving) and less at every other time, including all weekend. Aurora Energy sells it as Residential Peak & Off-Peak.

Here is how Tasmania’s residential tariffs (31, 32, 41, 93 and 97) work, what Tariff 93 costs in 2026–27, and which one suits a home with solar.

What is Aurora Tariff 93?

Tariff 93 is a whole-of-home time-of-use tariff: lights, appliances, heating and hot water are all billed on one tariff with two rates. The exception is a separately wired night-only circuit on Tariff 62, if you have one.

Peak: weekdays 7am–10am and 4pm–9pm (8am–11am and 5pm–10pm during daylight saving)
Off-peak: every other hour, including all of Saturday and Sunday

That makes about three-quarters of the week off-peak. Our guide to Aurora off-peak times has the full timetable and the cheapest times to run appliances.

What are the Tariff 93 rates for 2026–27?

Aurora Energy’s standing prices from 1 July 2026, including GST:

Aurora residential tariff (2026–27)	Energy price	Daily supply charge
Tariff 93 Peak & Off-Peak: peak	36.1878c/kWh	172.3469c/day
Tariff 93 Peak & Off-Peak: off-peak	17.0200c/kWh	(same supply charge)
Tariff 32 Single Rate (new from 1 July 2026)	24.7500c/kWh	182.0000c/day
Tariff 31 light & power (legacy)	27.9538c/kWh	167.6815c/day
Tariff 41 heating & hot water (legacy)	21.1193c/kWh	18.3156c/day

Source: Aurora Energy 2026–27 Standing Offer Tariff Schedule.

Prices change every 1 July, and market offers can differ from standing prices, so the rates on your own bill are the ones that count.

Which tariff am I on?

Check your bill: the tariff number is printed against each usage line.

Tariff 93 has been the default for new connections since 1 July 2024. If a home on Tariffs 31/41 gets a new digital meter, it has 12 months to tell its retailer it wants to stay on them; otherwise it moves to Tariff 93.
Tariffs 31 and 41 are the older pair. They closed to new installations on 30 June 2024, but homes already on them can stay. Aurora says that if you switch to a different tariff, you can’t go back to Tariffs 31 and 41.
Tariff 32 is a new flat “Single Rate” tariff from 1 July 2026. It needs a meter that records interval data.
Tariff 62 is a separately wired off-peak circuit for things like hot water, with power only from 10pm to 7am (14.02c/kWh plus 23.37c/day in 2026–27). It can sit alongside Tariff 93 or 32.
Tariff 97 is the newest option. You have to opt in, and it is built for homes with solar, a battery or an EV.

What are Tariff 31 and Tariff 41?

These are the legacy pair, and they appear together on one bill:

Tariff 31: light and power. One flat rate, day and night, for general household circuits: lights, power points and appliances.
Tariff 41: heating and hot water. A separately metered, cheaper flat rate for hard-wired heating and hot water circuits.

Neither has peak or off-peak times, so the time of day doesn’t change what you pay. With solar on 31/41, your panels offset the Tariff 31 rate whenever the house is using power. Because the Tariff 41 circuit is wired separately, daytime solar doesn’t automatically run your hot water.

What is Tariff 97, and how is it different?

Tariff 97 is TasNetworks’ opt-in tariff for homes with consumer energy resources (solar, a battery or an EV). It adds a third rate:

Super off-peak: midnight–4am, every day including weekends
Peak: weekdays 7am–10am and 4pm–10pm
Off-peak: all other times

TasNetworks sets these times in Australian Eastern Standard Time, so during daylight saving they read an hour later on the clock. Check your retailer’s plan for the exact clock times.

The super off-peak window is the cheapest power on offer, which suits a battery or car on a charging timer. The trade-off is that the evening peak runs an hour longer than Tariff 93’s (until 10pm). There is also an excess demand charge on days your home draws more than 8.5 kW over a half-hour. TasNetworks’ analysis says about 97% of households currently peak at or below 8.5 kW, so most homes won’t pay it. It is worth checking if you run an EV charger, oven and heating at the same time.

Tariff 97 is a network tariff, so you can only get it through a retailer that sells a plan built on it. Our electricity plans guide covers who offers one in Tasmania.

Tariff 31 vs 93 vs 97: which is best with solar?

Tariff	Status	Best suits
31 & 41 (flat)	Legacy: closed to new connections, existing homes may stay	Steady all-day usage, simple billing
32 (flat Single Rate)	New from 1 July 2026; needs an interval meter	Homes whose grid use is heavily in the evening and that have no battery
93 (time-of-use)	Default for new connections	Most homes. Solar generates in the off-peak window, and flexible loads can avoid the two weekday peaks
97 (CER time-of-use)	Newest, opt-in	Homes with a battery or EV that can charge from midnight to 4am

A battery or EV is what makes Tariff 97 worth it. Without a battery or EV, the longer evening peak can cost more than the super off-peak saves, so compare the retailer’s actual rates. With a battery, you fill up overnight at the cheapest rate, add solar during the day, and run the house from storage through the evening peak.

Tariff 93 or flat rate: which is cheaper?

It depends on what share of your grid power falls in the peak windows. Using the 2026–27 Aurora prices above, Tariff 93 works out cheaper than the new Tariff 32 flat rate unless more than about 40% of the power you buy is used in peak hours. Tariff 93 also has the slightly lower daily supply charge.

Solar changes the picture. Your panels cover much of your daytime use, so the power you still buy leans toward the evening peak, and that pushes your peak share up. A solar home with no battery and heavy 4pm–9pm use should check this rather than assume Tariff 93 is cheaper.

Should I switch from Tariff 31 to Tariff 93?

Think it through first, because it is a one-way move: Aurora says that once you switch to a different tariff you can’t return to Tariffs 31 and 41. Tariff 93 tends to suit homes that use most of their power in the middle of the day, overnight or on weekends. It can cost more if your heavy use falls in the weekday peaks: heating at 7am, then cooking, heating and hot water from 4pm to 9pm. Heating and hot water on Tariff 41 (21.12c/kWh) would move to Tariff 93 prices, which are cheaper off-peak but much dearer at peak.

The reliable way to decide is to compare your last 12 months of usage, split by time of day (your retailer or the Aurora+ app can provide it), rather than going on a hunch.

Why does self-consumption matter more than the feed-in tariff?

Because buying and selling power are priced very differently. Tasmania’s minimum solar feed-in tariff is 9.276c/kWh for 2026–27 (up from 8.782c). Every kilowatt-hour of solar you use at home instead saves whatever you would have paid for it:

On Tariff 93 at midday, it saves the off-peak rate of 17.02c, almost twice the export credit.
In the Tariff 93 evening peak, it saves 36.19c, almost four times the export credit. That gap is what a battery earns from.
On flat Tariff 31, it saves 27.95c, about three times the export credit.

In practice that means running the dishwasher, washing machine, hot water and EV charging in daylight, and keeping them out of the evening peak.

This guide is written by the Tasmanian solar team at Solar Generation Tasmania. Tariff times and rates are set by TasNetworks and retailers and change each financial year, so check your own bill for the figures that apply to you.

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Corrected 23 September 2026: an earlier version of this guide described Tariff 31 as the default Tasmanian tariff and Tariff 97 as a controlled-load hot water tariff. Both were wrong. Tariff 93 has been the default since 1 July 2024, Tariffs 31 and 41 are the legacy light-and-power / heating-and-hot-water pair, and Tariff 97 is the new opt-in tariff with a midnight–4am super off-peak rate. We have corrected the article and apologise for the error.

Updated 25 October 2026: added 2026–27 rates, the daylight-saving times and a comparison of switching from Tariff 31.

Published by Solar Generation Tasmania. General information current as at publication — rebates, tariffs and prices change, so confirm current figures before deciding.