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Power Saving Bonus
Earlier this month, the Victorian Government opened another round of the Power Saving Bonus program. That means you can pocket $250 for signing up on the […]
Overland Journal and CoPower collaborate to support a radical discourse on climate and energy
As a democratic co-operative committed to building socially owned renewable energy and a just transition to the commons, CoPower is proud to announce our partnership with […]
#CoPowerBudget Update for Feb
This month, we made a partial payment of our total budget allocation to The Bunya Fund which is Australia’s first co-operative development fund as part of […]
#CoPowerBudget Update for Dec and Jan
Hopefully you had the opportunity to recharge your batteries and spend some time with loved ones over the new year period. We don’t yet live in […]
Making sure your solar is working
By David Coote It’s all too common that a household with rooftop solar will have their electricity bill showing zero energy exported and no feed-in tariff […]
Making Solar Social in the Ballarat Region
As part of our democratic #CoPowerBudget, customer members voted to allocate $7,250.00 towards investing in community-owned renewables. The main stipulation of this investment would be that […]
#CoPowerBudget Update for November 2022
It’s good news for us in November as we celebrate our achievements one year on from the big Shell switch, this month has seen our biggest […]
What has CoPower achieved since Shell bought out PowerShop?
CoPower is a not-for-profit household electricity provider which you can switch to here One year ago Shell announced they were buying out Powershop. The news of […]
#CoPowerBudget Update for October 2022
As per our three rounds of democratic voting, our rank-and-file customer members voted to spend $100,000.00 on doing good works with the balance of our income […]
October South-Eastern Floods: key information
As with any crisis, it is solidarity that will see us through safely, and we hope that each and every one of our customer members (and […]