Tasmania
Live Tasmania electricity market: spot price, load and generation.
· rendered 10:17 UTC. Numbers hold their last published value; nothing is interpolated.
Now
5-min real-time price
100.14M AUD/MWh
≈ 70.32D USD/MWh ECB rate 2026-10-23
RT5 · AUD/MWh ·
Demand
1093M MW
Last 24 hours
Min 95.08, max 123.15, latest 100.14 AUD/MWh. Line breaks mark gaps longer than two reporting intervals.
Baseline building: 0 of 28 days.
Min 933, max 1150, latest 1093 MW. Line breaks mark gaps longer than two reporting intervals.
Baseline building: 0 of 28 days.
Generation mix
This market publishes no generation mix.
Other markets
5-min real-time price in other markets
- NEM New South Wales: 98.94M AUD/MWh
- NEM Queensland: 90.94M AUD/MWh
- NEM Victoria: 98.48M AUD/MWh
- NEM South Australia: 96.44M AUD/MWh
Demand in other markets
- Great Britain: 29582M MW
- Denmark: 5976D MW
- NEM New South Wales: 7973M MW
- NEM Queensland: 6801M MW
- NEM Victoria: 5439M MW
- NEM South Australia: 1392M MW
- Taiwan: 29240M MW
- ERCOT (Texas): 46732M MWhourly · EIA-930 preliminary · delayed
- PJM Interconnection: 76402M MWhourly · EIA-930 preliminary · delayed
- MISO: 63747M MWhourly · EIA-930 preliminary · delayed
- ISO New England: 10279M MWhourly · EIA-930 preliminary · delayed
- Southwest Power Pool (SPP): 27803M MWhourly · EIA-930 preliminary · delayed
Sources
Source
AEMO (AU) · licence
Source: Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO), NEMWEB
Latest batch fetched ·
Fuel mix not collected until AEMO's own Registration and Exemption List is available (Cowork 2026-10-23).
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SolarCostData Data Desk (2026). NEM Tasmania electricity data, live.solarcostdata.com/markets/tas/, accessed 2026-10-24. Source data: Source: Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO), NEMWEB.
Download last 24 h: data.csv · data.json (CC BY 4.0 (our figures); source data: Source: Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO), NEMWEB)
Tasmania is the TAS1 region of the National Electricity Market, an island at the end of a single undersea cable. The page shows AEMO’s five-minute spot price and the regional demand. The defining feature is hydropower: Tasmania’s generation is predominantly hydro, and the dams store water that can be turned into power on short notice.
That makes Tasmanian prices a story of water and wires. In a wet period with full storages the island exports power to Victoria through Basslink, and the price follows the mainland. When storages are low, the same cable lets the island import, and the hydro operator has to decide when to hold water back. Price differences with Victoria therefore tell you more about the cable and about reservoir management than about short-term demand.
Basslink is rated at about 500 MW, which is small compared with the mainland regions, so Tasmania can be cut off from mainland prices when the link is full or out of service.
We show no generation mix for Tasmania, so the hydro share is not displayed here. Prices are five-minute dispatch prices in Australian dollars, and NEM time is AEST, ten hours ahead of UTC, although Tasmania’s local clocks run an hour ahead of it whenever daylight saving applies.
Facts
- TAS1 is the NEM region for Tasmania, joined to the mainland only by the Basslink HVDC cable to Victoria.
- Basslink is about 370 km long, of which roughly 290 km is submarine cable, and is nominally rated at 500 MW. Source: APA
- Basslink can carry up to 630 MW northward from Tasmania to Victoria for short periods, above its 500 MW nameplate rating. Source: APA
- Tasmania's generation is predominantly hydro. Source: Hydro Tasmania
- Tasmania's local standard time is AEST (UTC+10), the same as NEM market time; when daylight saving applies, local clocks run one hour ahead of it. Source: Bureau of Meteorology Source: AEMO
- Five-minute settlement began on 1 October 2021; dispatch prices carry interval-end stamps in the AEMO files. Source: AEMC
- The market price cap for 2026-27 is A$23,200/MWh. Source: AEMC
- Currency: Australian dollars (AUD).
Not for trading or operational decisions. Provisional data.