List of the Best Green Energy Providers in Australia
This post was last updated in 2025
Hello there my eco-conscious warriors 😊
When it comes to cutting your carbon footprint, switching to a green energy provider is one of the most powerful steps you can take. But here’s the catch – it is not always clear which of the energy providers out there are “green”.
While some companies invest in renewable projects and back Australia’s transition to clean energy, others still have links to coal, oil or gas — even if they offer a so-called “green” plan and appear to support clean energy. If you want to ensure your money is not supporting the fossil fuel industry, you want to choose an energy provider that has close to zero ties with the fossil fuel energy market. I have found these companies and I am sharing my list of green energy providers here.
These companies do not support the fossil fuel industry, meaning no investment in coal or gas infrastructure, and no parent companies with dirty ties. These are the true clean energy champions, and they deserve a closer look:
Click on the links above to learn a little bit more about each of these companies.
To be clear, signing up with these companies does not mean the electricity provided to you will be 100% green. Unfortunately, for most of Australia, the only way to get more green energy in your life is to generate it yourself through solar. To learn more about this, read this blog post: What to Look Out for When Choosing a Green Energy Retailer.
The best you can aim for is to choose an energy provider that has no ties to companies that generate energy through fossil fuels. That way, the fees you pay for electricity and the profit generated from that do not go to supporting businesses that are unnecessarily polluting our planet.
That was the main criteria that was applied when coming up with the list above – ensuring the energy provider does not have ties to companies that generate energy through fossil fuels.
How did I come up with the list?
As mentioned, I relied on information from Greenpeace to come up with this list.
Greenpeace had previously published a Green Electricity Guide. They had looked at over 40 providers and obtained information about the ties these companies had with fossil fuel companies.
Unfortunately, this guide is no longer publicly available, so I am unable to link to it. But luckily, I downloaded the information back in 2024, and I was able to rely on this to come up with the list above.
From their list of 40 + companies, I excluded those with known ties to fossil fuel companies. For those that were left, I searched for information online to see if they checked off one of the boxes in my checklist of what makes a green energy provider (I’ve summarised this checklist below or you can read more in this blog post: What to Look Out for When Choosing a Green Energy Retailer).
From this online search, I found companies that had ceased operations, so they were removed from the list. And other companies did not tick any other boxes on the checklist I had, so they were removed from the list.
And I was left with the shortlist for this blog post.
To help you choose a green energy company, here’s a summary of the different providers and the states in which they are available:
Or keep reading to learn a little more.
Diamond Energy
A long-time frontrunner in clean energy, Diamond Energy generates its own electricity from renewables like solar, wind, and biogas, and supports small-scale solar producers across Australia.
🌱 Why they’re green: Independently owned, no fossil fuel ties, and supplies renewable power from their own generation assets.
📍 Available in: NSW, VIC, QLD, SA.
⚡ Plans: Standard electricity plans, carbon neutral, with GreenPower options available.
Energy Locals
Energy Locals is all about doing things differently — they don’t profit from how much energy you use, and they work with community organisations to support solar and battery programs.
🌱 Why they’re green: No fossil fuel links, carbon neutral by default, supports local clean energy initiatives like Indigo Power and CoPower.
📍 Available in: NSW, VIC, QLD, SA, ACT, TAS.
⚡ Plans: Carbon neutral by default, optional GreenPower, solar-friendly plans.
Indigo Power
Based in regional Victoria, Indigo Power is a community-owned social enterprise working to build locally generated, renewable power systems. They sell electricity through Energy Locals but remain community-led and focused.
🌱 Why they’re green: No fossil fuel ties, supports regional and community-led solar and battery projects.
📍 Available in: VIC, NSW.
⚡ Plans: Community energy plans*, carbon neutral (via Energy Locals), optional GreenPower.
*They note your energy comes from the “community”, but reading into it, it appears your energy will still come from the national grid. However, they calculate how much excess energy your community has produced through solar and show how you have “used” this energy. It doesn’t seem like you get to plug into this excess energy directly – it seems theoretical, not actual.
CoPower
CoPower is a not-for-profit, member-owned energy co-op that uses your power bill to fund social justice and climate action. They also operate through Energy Locals, keeping your energy clean and ethical.
🌱 Why they’re green: 100% of profits go to good causes, no fossil fuel involvement, and a democratic ownership model.
📍 Available in: VIC, NSW, SA.
⚡ Plans: Carbon neutral, GreenPower optional, socially responsible energy supply (via Energy Locals).
Nectr Energy
Nectr offers competitive rates, solar and battery bundles, and carbon-neutral plans — but there’s a catch. They’re owned by Hanwha Energy, a global player with ties to fossil fuels – they don’t generate electricity through fossil fuels, and they invest heavily in clean energy. However, they do have a petrochemical arm producing plastics.
🌱 Why they’re partially green: Offers 100% GreenPower and solar plans, but has a fossil fuel-linked parent company.
📍 Available in: NSW, QLD, SA, ACT, VIC.
⚡ Plans: Carbon-neutral plans, 100% GreenPower options, solar + battery bundles.
Amber Electric
Amber gives you real-time access to wholesale energy prices, helping you use power when it’s coming from renewables. It’s a smart, tech-forward way to support clean energy while reducing your costs.
🌱 Why they’re green: 100% carbon neutral, no fossil fuel ties, supports smarter use of renewable energy.
📍 Available in: NSW, VIC, QLD, SA, ACT.
⚡ Plans: Dynamic wholesale pricing model, solar export optimisation, carbon neutral by default.
iO Energy
iO Energy is a South Australian retailer helping customers align energy use with times when renewables are strongest. Their smart time-of-use plans encourage shifting electricity usage to greener periods, and they’ve signed partnerships with bioenergy producers to back their clean claims.
🌱 Why they’re green: They help customers align energy use with renewable peaks and have signed a PPA with a biopower provider to source cleaner electricity.
📍 Available in: South Australia (with plans to expand).
⚡ Plans: Time‑of‑use plans offering ultra‑low daytime rates (e.g., ~8 c/kWh), carbon‑focused clean energy.
Radian Energy
Radian Energy is Australia’s first carbon-neutral electricity provider, fully certified by Climate Active. They’re independently owned and reinvest in renewable energy and social impact projects.
🌱 Why they’re green: Australia’s first Carbon Neutral-certified electricity provider. 100% Australian-owned, Radian invests in renewable power, offers carbon-neutral plans and funnels a share of profits into social impact energy projects.
📍 Available in: QLD, NSW, SA, ACT, TAS (authorised nationally by AER).
⚡ Plans: Residential and commercial electricity plans that are carbon‑neutral; optional solar + battery setup via consulting service.
OVO Energy
OVO Energy is a UK-based green energy retailer operating in Australia with optional 100% GreenPower and EV-friendly plans. While they don’t generate their own electricity, they’re certified carbon neutral and support smarter, cleaner energy use through digital tools.
🌱 Why they’re green: UK-based, offers optional 100% GreenPower add-on, solar and EV plans with clean-energy incentives.
📍 Available in: NSW, VIC, QLD, SA.
⚡ Plans: “The One Plan” with bill smoothing; optional GreenPower (10–100%); Solar-Feed-in; EV charging tariffs; EV-specific plans offering off-peak/free windows.
Real Utilities
Owned by Frasers Property, Real Utilities supplies 100% carbon-neutral electricity within its residential and commercial developments. They generate and source clean energy through rooftop solar and renewable certificate purchases, serving customers in embedded networks.
🌱 Why they’re green: Fully Climate Active-certified carbon-neutral energy provider, a subsidiary of Frasers Property Australia. They procure renewable energy certificates or generate solar on rooftops to back all customer consumption.
📍 Available in: Only within Frasers Property residential, retail, industrial, and mixed‑use precincts (across various states).
⚡ Plans: Carbon-neutral electricity; tailored for residential developments, business parks, and strata communities—same rates but greener energy.
Glowpower
Glowpower is a newer, Victorian-based retailer that partners with Energy Locals to deliver clean, reliable electricity. While their operations are still small, they offer GreenPower and transparent billing aligned with sustainability values.
🌱 Why they’re green: A new Aussie-owned retailer focused on affordability, transparency, and sustainability—they partner with Energy Locals to offer reliable service rooted in clean-energy values.
📍 Available in: Victoria currently (advising new market offers soon).
⚡ Plans: Energy Locals-backed plans, including GreenPower offsets and smart-meter-driven billing to save money and emissions.
Locality Planning Energy (LPE)
LPE focuses on embedded energy solutions for apartment blocks and strata communities, particularly in Queensland and northern NSW. They support solar, batteries, and EV charging infrastructure, and offer carbon-neutral hot water in multi-dwelling developments.
🌱 Why they’re green: Embedded-network specialist for strata and multi-unit buildings—enabling shared solar, battery systems, EV charging, and carbon‑neutral hot water solutions.
📍 Available in: QLD and Northern NSW (Maroochydore-based, expanding strata networks).
⚡ Plans: Electric, solar, battery & EV charging solutions, strata-focused embedded-network billing, centralised carbon-neutral hot water.
CovaU Energy
CovaU is a national energy retailer that offers optional 25%, 50%, or 100% GreenPower on its plans. While not exclusively green, they give customers the flexibility to choose renewable electricity add-ons certified by the government’s GreenPower program.
🌱 Why they’re green: One of the few mid‑tier retailers endorsed by the GreenPower Program—offers 25%, 50% or 100% GreenPower-accredited clean-energy add-ons sourced from 100% Australian sustainable generators.
📍 Available in: NSW, VIC, QLD, SA, TAS, ACT (wide national coverage).
⚡ Plans: Standard electricity and gas plans, solar feed-in tariffs, flexible usage rates, no lock-in contracts, plus tiered GreenPower additions.
Altogether Group
Altogether Group provides energy and water services to embedded networks in residential and business precincts. They offer solar, battery, and EV infrastructure in new developments.
🌱 Why it’s green: A multi-utility company focused on embedded networks for strata, residential & business communities. Has a mission statement centred on “sustainable” energy solutions.
📍 Available in: NSW and QLD, servicing over 30,000 embedded-network customers.
⚡ Plans: Embedded-network electricity (and gas/hot water) with strata billing and localised sustainability options; tailored to developments rather than standard residential plans.
Future X Power
Future X Power is a Brisbane-based retailer offering affordable electricity plans with a sustainability angle. They partner with “One Tree Planted” to support reforestation and promote solar usage.
🌱 Why it’s green: A Brisbane-based retailer committed to transparent pricing and sustainability initiatives, such as partnering with ‘One Tree Planted’ to plant a tree for every new sign-up. Outwardly “renewable-focused,” although they don’t explicitly own renewable generation.
📍 Available in: NSW, SA, TAS, QLD, and some areas of WA
⚡ Plans: Single-rate variable residential and business plans, same-day connections, solar-export credits (~4 c/kWh), plus carbon offset initiatives via tree planting.
Dodo Power & Gas
Dodo began life as a cheeky internet provider mascot but launched into energy retail back in 2010 under the umbrella of Vocus Group. They’re known for straightforward deals, bundling options, and a fuss-free approach.
🌱 Why they’re green: Offers optional 10% or 100% GreenPower add-ons, has a solar feed-in tariff,
📍 Available in: NSW, VIC, QLD, SA (gas only in NSW & VIC).
⚡ Plans on offer: Simple residential electricity and gas plans with no lock-in contracts and flexible billing, GreenPower options (10% or 100%) as add-ons, offers a solar feed-in tariff, and bundling with internet services via Vocus can yield monthly discounts
Simply Energy (now ENGIE Australia)
Simply Energy was acquired by ENGIE and, in early 2024, was rebranded under the ENGIE name. They’ve committed to a greener future:
🌱 Why they’re green: They offer a certified carbon-neutral product for residential customers since January 2021, ENGIE Australia has exited coal generation and is investing in renewables, aiming for net-zero emissions by 2045.
📍 Available in: VIC, SA, NSW, QLD, and WA (electricity & gas vary).
⚡ Plans: Standard electricity & gas; residential carbon-neutral electricity (default for new customers), GreenPower options, and innovative plans focused on low-carbon tech and bill simplification.
One extra provider…
Since the Greenpeace list of reviewed companies was almost a year old, I searched for energy providers not covered in the Greenpeace review.
Using the Canstar Blue electricity guide, the two companies below were noted as players in the market; however, based on publicly available information, these are not companies worth considering:
- Kogan Energy – their business practices as a whole in the retail market are not of the kind you would want to support, so I have ruled this company out, even if it does not have ties to fossil fuel energy generators.
- Engie – the parent company has ties to the natural gas industry
One provider I did find in my review of providers listed on Canstar was Pacific Blue. Here’s more info on this one:
Pacific Blue
Pacific Blue is a fully renewable energy retailer owned by State Power Investment Corporation, one of the world’s largest clean energy companies. In Australia, Pacific Blue owns and operates wind farms and hydroelectric power stations, and they supply electricity directly from their own renewable generation assets.
🌱 Why they’re green: They generate 100% of the electricity they sell from wind and hydro, with no fossil fuel involvement.
📍 Available in: VIC, SA, NSW (limited to some business and residential customers — expanding slowly).
⚡ Plans: Residential and business electricity plans, carbon-neutral and GreenPower plans are offered
It is a long list of energy providers here. Not all companies are perfect in their practices, and more could be considered more “green” than others.
The companies listed here are ones that have zero ties to companies that generate energy from fossil fuels. And I also looked for at least one of the other elements in the list below:
Asset ownership
- The parent company (or any owner of the company) does not extract, transport or generate power from fossil fuels.
- They own renewable energy assets, or the parent company owns assets that generate renewable energy.
Market position
- They actively take the position that coal-fired power sources should be phased out of our market.
- They promote energy efficiency.
- They support technology that allows for small-scale/ local electricity generation.
Pricing
- Supports localised energy production and community involvement
- Promotes demand management (more on this in another post)
- They offer high solar feed-in tariffs to encourage households to go solar. Energy use
- They offset their own energy use
Products offered
- They offer carbon-neutral energy
- They offer GreenPower energy (more about this in this blog post)
Some of the companies listed above tick more than one of these boxes, which is ideal. It would be hard to find one that ticks all the boxes.
Choosing a truly green energy provider in Australia isn’t always as straightforward as it should be, but it is possible, and my hope is that this blog post makes things easier for you.
By switching to a provider that doesn’t support the fossil fuel industry, you’re not just making a personal change—you’re helping to shift demand toward a cleaner energy future. Every dollar we spend on power is a vote for the kind of world we want to live in and it is through these conscious choices, we can collectively work towards a more sustainable future 🌎
xx Tahsin
References:
(1) https://www.greenelectricityguide.org.au/ (no longer available publicly)
(2) https://www.wikipedia.org/ (yes, this is what I relied on to confirm company ownership if details could not be found in the websites linked throughout this blog post)
(3) https://www.canstarblue.com.au/electricity/
(4) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanwha_Group
(5) https://www.canstarblue.com.au/electricity
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