Green electricity in Australia
Green electricity in Australia is available from a number of green energy suppliers that supply electricity from environmentally friendly energy sources that are renewable and non-polluting. The growth and development of the green energy industry is tracked in Australia by the ALTEX-Australia alternative energy index.
In Australia green energy is accredited under the GreenPower scheme whereby all distributors are government audited bi-annually to ensure that customers are getting exactly what is described in their purchased products. In the 2009 settlement period there were 904,716 GreenPower customers Australia-wide, accounting for a total of 2,194,934 MWh of electricity generation, a 10% increase over 2008. This total electricity provision was divided between residential customers who purchased 1,001,195 MWh, and business customers who purchased 1,193,739 MWh.[1][2] The largest nationwide distributors were EnergyAustralia, Origin Energy, and TRUenergy.
By the 2014 settlement period the number of GreenPower customers Australia-wide was at 497,406, and total purchases accounted for 1,279,281 MWh.[3]
Companies offering GreenPower
As of 2008 these companies offered a residential GreenPower accredited program:
- AGL
- ARK Climate
- Australian Power & Gas
- Click Energy
- Climate Friendly
- Country Energy
- COZero
- Domayne
- EnergyAustralia
- Ergon Energy Queensland
- Global Green Plan
- Integral Energy
- Jackgreen
- Lumo Energy
- Momentum Energy
- Origin Energy
- Our Neighbourhood Energy
- Powershop
- Queensland Electricity
- Simply Energy
- South Australia Electricity
- Synergy (electricity corporation)
- TRUenergy
- Victoria Electricity
