Electricity

Below is the list of concessions available in the electricity category. To view each concession, click on its name. To expand or collapse the information for every concession use the button below:

Electricity

Annual electricity concession

The annual electricity concession provides a daily discount to eligible customers as a cents per day rate. The current concession is 176.866 cents per day and available to:

Eligible concession card holders.
ImmiCard (Bridging Visa E) holders.

To apply for the annual electricity concession, eligible customers should contact their electricity retailer by telephone or complete the Application Form.

For more information

Contact your electricity retailer.

Services Australia Health Care Card; Concession available to anyone who meets the eligibility criteria; Department of Veterans' Affairs Pensioner Concession Card; Services Australia Pensioner Concession Card

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Energy Bill Relief Fund Extension

The Australian Government has extended the Energy Bill Relief Fund in 2025-26 to all Tasmanian households. There are no concession requirements.

Two quarterly bill discounts of $75, up to a maximum amount of $150, will be applied to all residential accounts throughout the first half of 2025-26.

Households will receive their rebates automatically from their retailer through their electricity bill.

If you are on an embedded network you are still eligible and will need to apply for the rebate as a grant payment through the Department of State Growth.

For more information:
Contact your electricity retailer.
Web recfit.tas.gov.au

Concession available to anyone who meets the eligibility criteria

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Heating allowance

The Heating Allowance is a payment of $56 per year paid in two payments of $28. Payments are made under the Pensioners (Heating Allowances) Act 1971.

Eligibility:

Means tested (income and assests).
Hold eligible concession card.

A single pensioner cannot have more than $1 750* in cash assets and married/de facto pensioners cannot have more than $2 750.*

*Other conditions also apply.

Apply online or by requesting a form by email or phone.

For more information:

Department of Premier and Cabinet
Phone: 1800 300 068
Email: heatingallowance@dpac.tas.gov.au
Web: Heating allowance

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Life support concession

The life support concession is a daily discount to eligible people who use an approved life support system, or who live with someone who uses one in their main home.

The approved devices and current discounts per day are:

Oxygen concentrator - 131.091 cents
Peritoneal dialysis machine - 97.262 cents
Haemodialysis machine - 97.262 cents
Chronic positive pressure and airways regulator - 46.516 cents
Continuous positive airways pressure machine - 46.516 cents
Respirator (iron lung) - 173.377 cents
Combination oxygen concentrator and chronic positive pressure and airways regulator - 177.607 cents
Phototherapy machine - 247.035 cents
Left ventricular assist device - 46.516 cents
Nebuliser machine (main powered only) - 13.146 cents.

To apply, complete the Application Form and have it certified by your medical practitioner, then submit it to your electricity retailer.

For more information

Contact your electricity retailer.

Concession available to anyone who meets the eligibility criteria

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Medical cooling or heating concession

The medical cooling or heating concession is a daily discount to eligible customers who have, or who live with a person who has, a medical condition that requires the cooling or heating of their main home to manage that medical condition.

The current concession is 52.975 cents per day.

To apply, complete the Application Form, have it certified by your medical practitioner then submit it to your electricity retailer.