The Guardian
Pulling the switch: how to find a new clean energy provider in Australia
With the sale of electricity provider Powershop to Shell, many customers drawn to good climate credentials are pondering their options
Rafqa Touma: Tue 30 Nov 2021 23.00 GMT
Since multinational energy giant Royal Dutch Shell expanded into Australia’s residential electricity market by purchasing our greenest power company, Powershop Australia, many of Powershop’s 185,000 customers have apparently considered jumping ship.
Kane Parlby, 22, is among them. “I feel kind of betrayed,” Parlby tells Guardian Australia. “Customers decided to pay more for Powershop, to ensure we get greener electricity. To then be bought by one of the biggest fossil fuel polluters on the planet is … munted.”