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Community Power
The Community Power Program has been discontinued
The Community Power program, which ran from 2002 to 2010, assisted local households and businesses to take action on climate change by switching to GreenPower products endorsed by Community Power.
Community Power was a partnership program of Darebin, Whitehorse and Moreland City Councils and the Moreland Energy Foundation aiming to increase the uptake of GreenPower in the community and to promote energy efficiency to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Although the program had a number of successes since it proved to be resource intensive to establish the best GreenPower offers for our community and maintain ongoing support services. Timelines, details of the product offers and accessibility have proven to be beyond Community Power's control in the current market.
The GreenPower market has matured and grown since the inception of Community Power and there are now a large number of different offers available to the community. As a result, recently we have found the low number of new households signing up to Community Power offers has not warranted the resources invested by the partner organisations.
For this reason, in March 2010, Moreland Energy Foundation and partners resolved to discontinue the Community Power program.
Residents who have signed up with a Community Power Energy Plan will not be affected by the finalisation of the program; their Energy Plan will remain valid.
Purchasing GreenPower remains one of the simplest and most effective ways to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and MEFL will continue to promote the uptake of GreenPower and deliver energy efficiency seminars and education through our other programs, particularly the Zero Carbon Moreland campaign.
If you would like to find out about some of the best GreenPower offers available to you, we encourage you to take a look at the Green Electricity Watch website, which rates accredited GreenPower products so you can make an informed choice.
www.greenelectricitywatch.org.au
For more information about green power see:
www.greenpower.gov.au
Please note that we cannot guarantee for the accuracy of information on external sites.
