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 173.296 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.
Energy Bill Relief Fund
The Tasmanian and Commonwealth Governments partnered to deliver cost of living relief through lower energy bills delivered through the Energy Bill Relief Fund. Through the fund, eligible households can receive $250 of electricity bill rebates in 2024-25. The rebates will come as two separate bill discounts of $125 applied in the first and fourth quarter of 2024-25.
Eligibility:
The electricity account holder must, on 1 July 2024, be a recipient or holder of:
- An eligible concession card.
- Family Tax Benefit (FTB) A and B.
- Carer Allowance.
Households that are eligible for the rebate but not eligible for the Annual Electricity Concession, should contact their retailer to register.
Customers that are currently eligible and verified with their retailer to receive the Annual Electricity Concession are automatically eligible for the Energy Bill Relief Rebate. These customers will receive their rebate automatically from their retailer in the first quarter bill from 1 July 2024.
If you are eligible for the Annual Electricity Concession, but do not currently receive it, please contact your electricity retailer to register.
Once registered, your electricity retailer will automatically apply:
- A $125 rebate in the September quarter 2024.
- A $125 rebate in the June quarter of 2025.
If you don’t receive electricity from an electricity retailer and are on an embedded network (for instance you receive electricity via your landlord in a caravan park or retirement home or village) you are still eligible and will need to apply for the rebate as a grant payment through the Department of State Growth. Further information for embedded network customers is available from the website.
For more information:
Contact your electricity retailer.
For details on how to apply visit www.recfit.tas.gov.au
Energy Bill Relief Fund Extension
The Australian Government has extended the Energy Bill Relief Fund in 2024-25 to all Tasmanian households. There are no concession requirements.
Quarterly bill discounts of $75, up to a maximum amount of $300, will be applied to all residential accounts throughout 2024-25.
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. Further information for embedded network customers is available from the website.
The Energy Bill Relief Fund Extension is in addition to any Energy Bill Relief Fund rebate you may be eligible for under the original scheme in 2024-25.
For more information:
Contact your electricity retailer.
Web recfit.tas.gov.au
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
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 - 128.445 cents
- Peritoneal dialysis machine - 95.299 cents
- Haemodialysis machine - 95.299 cents
- Chronic positive pressure and airways regulator - 45.577 cents
- Continuous positive airways pressure machine - 45.577 cents
- Respirator (iron lung) - 169.878 cents
- Combination oxygen concentrator and chronic positive pressure and airways regulator - 174.022 cents
- Phototherapy machine - 242.049 cents
- Left ventricular assist device - 45.577 cents
- Nebuliser machine (main powered only) - 12.881 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.
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 51.906 cents per day.
To apply, complete the Application Form, have it certified by your medical practitioner then submit it to your electricity retailer.
For more information
Contact your authorised retailer.
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Services Australia Pensioner Concession Card
Services Australia Health Care Card
Services Australia Commonwealth Seniors Health Card
Seniors Card
Companion Card
Concession available to anyone who meets the eligibility criteria
Department of Veterans' Affairs Pensioner Concession Card
Department of Veterans’ Affairs Commonwealth Seniors Health Card
Department of Veterans Affairs Veteran Cards - Orange
Department of Veterans’ Affairs Veteran Cards - Gold
Department of Veterans’ Affairs Veteran Cards - White