Local electricity retailer Enova Energy has received the highest rating possible in the new Green Electricity Guide released by Greenpeace today.
The five-star rating follows an independent assessment of Enova’s operations, model, and approach by Greenpeace’s Green Electricity Guide team.
‘The rating recognises our focus on enabling energy resilience in local communities and regions, as well as our support for renewable energy generation aimed at accelerating the much-needed transition to renewable energy,’ said Enova Energy Managing Director, Felicity Stening.
Enova’s works also involves enabling local communities to generate, store and share their own renewable energy, allowing money spent on electricity to circulate locally.
‘From day one, Enova has focussed on ensuring its ownership, structure, energy sourcing and profit-for-purpose social enterprise model combine to actively address the causes of climate change and to increase climate resilience in our communities,’ Ms Stening said.
The Green Electricity Guide is a fully independent assessment by Greenpeace of Australia’s electricity retailers.
It will play a role in the uptake of clean renewable energy by making it easier for consumers to tell which electricity companies have strong climate policies and support renewable energy and which do not.
The criteria against which Enova Energy was assessed were:
• Provides clean, renewable energy
• Ending dirty coal use by 2030
• Halting fossil fuel expansion
• Support for new renewable energy
• Transparency in marketing
• Avoiding pollution and environmental harm
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