QLD Solar Feed In Tariff Information

Last Updated: 31st Aug 2025

If you’re in South West Queensland, you’re in the Energex network area and get to choose your retailer plan and associated solar feed-in tariff. If you’re in regional Queensland, you’ll be in the Ergon network area and will, almost always, have them as your electricity retailer and use their solar feed-in tariff.

If you’re not sure which network area you’re in, it will be on your electricity bill.

South East Queensland – Energex

In the South East Energex area – which includes Brisbane, the Gold Coast, and the Sunshine Coast as far north as Noosa – solar feed-in tariffs are Voluntary Retailer Contributions. This means electricity retailers don’t have to pay anything for electricity solar energy households export to the grid, but they usually offer plans that do.

Below are two retailers offering plans with above average feed-in tariffs, as of February 2025:

Red Energy: 5c/kWh
Diamond: 3c/kWh
Energy Australia: Solar Max plan gives 10c for first 12kWh exported per day, then drops to 4.6c.

If you have a solar inverter with a capacity of 10kW or less, some other options are:

Engie: Engie Solar plan gives 10c for the first 8kWh exported per day, then drops to 3c.
AGL: Solar Savers plan gives 8c for the first 10kWh exported per day, then drops to 3c.
Alinta Energy: Solar Savers plan gives 10c for the first 10kWh exported per day, then drops to 4c.

Note that when an electricity retailer gives a set number of kWh per day, they mean the daily amount multiplied by the number of days in the billing cycle. They don’t actually look at every individual day. This is an advantage, as solar exports can vary considerably from day to day.

For the latest rates from these and other companies, try our electricity retailer comparison tool.

QLD electricity retailer plans with higher solar feed-in tariff rates won’t necessarily result in the lowest electricity bills for solar households. Plans with more generous solar feed-in tariffs aren’t always the cheapest overall – our comparison tool can help you find what might be the best deal for you.

Regional Queenslanders Usually Have A Fixed Feed-in Tariff

In the regional Ergon network area, there’s little choice in electricity retailers. Energy Locals and Origin Energy offer plans in some locations, but as of August 2025, no Origin plan has a feed-in tariff in the Ergon area, so there’s no sense in using them if you have solar.

Most homes in the Ergon area have Ergon as their retailer and receive a fixed feed-in tariff.

Due to factors ranging from an explosion and other problems at QLD’s Callide coal power station, to Russia causing gas prices to explode by exploding things in another country, feed-in tariffs were high over the past few years, but are now coming back down again, as these amounts from previous financial years show:

2021-22 6.583c/kWh
2022-23 9.3c/kWh
2023-24 13.411c/kWh
2024-25 12.377/kWh

For the 2025-26 financial year, the feed-in tariff rate has been set at 8.66 cents per kilowatt-hour. While a considerable drop, this is still higher than the average received in South East Queensland.

Fill your roof! Years ago, the largest solar system regional Queenslanders could install and receives a solar feed-in tariff was 6.6kW. But this was changed in September 2017, so homes with large solar systems could receive a feed-in tariff. So if you want to install a large solar system, you can receive a feed-in tariff for all the solar energy you export. But note there are still plenty of places in remote queensland where the amount you can export will be limited due to local grid limitations.

Find Feed-In Tariffs And Compare Electricity Retailers

To find current solar FiT incentive rates offered by a wide variety of retailers in your part of Queensland, you can enter your postcode into this handy electricity retailer comparison tool.

Queensland’s Older And Higher Feed-In Tariffs

Queensland households and businesses that applied to install rooftop solar power systems before the 10th of July 2012 were eligible for the state’s Solar Bonus – a 44 cent feed-in tariff. Provided nothing is done to lose this high buyback incentive, it is locked in until the 1st of July 2028.

Keeping Your High Feed-In Tariff

In QLD, in order to maintain your high solar feed-in tariff rate, you have to stay where you are. If you move house, sell the home, rent it out, or change the name on the electricity account, you lose the high rate. The only exception is, it can be transferred between spouses if one moves out of the house.

You cannot increase your solar inverter size, but you can replace it with a same-sized or smaller one. You’re also unable to add extra solar panels in a situation where they will exceed the rated capacity of your system’s inverter

If you close your electricity account, you also lose your high FiT, and the same applies if you are disconnected. This means if you can’t pay your electricity bills because of financial difficulties, losing your high solar feed-in tariff can make paying bills even more difficult.

For further rules and information about keeping your high feed-in tariff, see this page.

The easiest way to find a Queensland electricity retailer offering a good deal on FiT’s is to compare solar feed in tariffs using this tool.