Enova Energy achieves 5-Star rating and 10+/10 in Greenpeace's 2022 Green Electricity Guide

For Immediate Use 
Tuesday, 8 February 2022 

Enova Energy, Australia’s first community-owned social enterprise electricity retailer, has received the highest rating possible (five stars) in the new Green Electricity Guide released by Greenpeace today. The recognition follows a rigorous and completely 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 Community Energy is Australian-operated, and community-owned, with approximately 1,600 individual Australian shareholders. It is renewables-focussed with electricity sourced from customer rooftops and Diamond Energy – also five-star rated in the Green Electricity Guide - with its expanding portfolio of renewable energy generation projects. 

Enova’s efforts also involve enabling innovative ways for local communities to generate, store and share their own renewable energy, allowing money spent on electricity to circulate locally. By leading and partnering in these projects, Enova aims to give control over energy back to people, communities, and regions. Enova believes renewable energy can and should strengthen local economies, rather than draining money and resources away. 

“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,” said Felicity. 

“Customers and communities are at the heart of everything we do. Enova gives people the opportunity to take practical and immediate climate action and we’re thrilled our efforts have been so highly ranked in the Green Electricity Guide,” she said.  

Enova’s efforts to transition communities to renewables continues and two current examples include its support for The Good Car Company to decarbonise transport in the Northern Rivers through an electric vehicle bulk buy, and a community-owned solar grants project in partnership with 4 Pines and Ben & Jerry’s.  

The Green Electricity Guide is a fully independent assessment by Greenpeace of Australia’s electricity retailers. It will play an important role in driving uptake in 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 to achieve its 5 Star rating and it's 10+/10 score are:  

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 
 

According to Felicity, “It is a testament to the commitment to change-making that was built into Enova’s Constitution by its co-founders that we can honestly say, Enova has addressed all of the elements assessed by the Green Electricity Guide. I’m immensely proud to be leading such a game- changing organisation.” 

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Photo captions:  

Enova Energy Managing Director Felicity Stening behind the wheel of a Good Car Co 100% electric vehicle as part of Enova’s Community EV Bulk Buy which aims to decarbonise transport in their local region.  

Installation of Australia’s first solar garden, pioneered by Enova Community Energy and partners, on the roof of North Coast Community Housing in Lismore, NSW. 

Felicity Stening, Managing Director of Enova Energy. 

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For further information or to interview Felicity Stening, Managing Director, Enova Community Energy, please contact: 

Cassandra Sheppard, Enova Energy: 0414 946 695 / cassandrasheppard@enovaenergy.com.au; or, 

Nicola Boyd, Executive Assistant to the Managing Director: 0497 125 944 / nicolaboyd@enovaenergy.com.au.  

For more information and details about Enova Energy, please see the Background Information attached with this media release and visit www.enovaenergy.com.au 

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