cooperativepower.org.au
@copower.bsky.social
We are a non-profit cooperative energy provider working to bring energy back into the commons. https://www.cooperativepower.org.au
🎉🎉 Congratulations to the winners of our CoPower Democratic Gas Budget! 🏆 Read more about the winners here: www.cooperativepower.org.au/democratic-gas-budget-winners
September 15, 2025 at 4:48 AM
🎉🎉 Congratulations to the winners of our CoPower Democratic Gas Budget! 🏆 Read more about the winners here: www.cooperativepower.org.au/democratic-gas-budget-winners
🚨🚨 Please take a few mins to stop the Victorian Government from opening state waters for petroleum exploration by completing their consultation survey today ⚠️ The survey closes tomorrow Tuesday 9th Sept ⚠️
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Petroleum exploration permit tender
Have your say on the upcoming tender for petroleum exploration permits in the Otway and Gippsland basins.
engage.vic.gov.au
September 8, 2025 at 3:11 AM
🚨🚨 Please take a few mins to stop the Victorian Government from opening state waters for petroleum exploration by completing their consultation survey today ⚠️ The survey closes tomorrow Tuesday 9th Sept ⚠️
engage.vic.gov.au/petroleum-ex...
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We are proud to have contributed 1% of our total revenue over the 2024 financial year to Pay the Rent Grassroots Collective that then transfers this money to Indigenous People and communities for the First Nations People’s self-determination, economic independence and for welfare 1/3
September 5, 2025 at 2:02 AM
We are proud to have contributed 1% of our total revenue over the 2024 financial year to Pay the Rent Grassroots Collective that then transfers this money to Indigenous People and communities for the First Nations People’s self-determination, economic independence and for welfare 1/3
Today we're running a stall at the ANMF Vic Branch Health & Sustainability Conference! 🧑⚕️🌱✊ Great to be here and meet ANMF Vic members who are passionate about healthcare, sustainability and the environment. Looking forward to chatting with you! ⚡ #union #solidarity #cooperative #nursing #electricity
August 28, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Today we're running a stall at the ANMF Vic Branch Health & Sustainability Conference! 🧑⚕️🌱✊ Great to be here and meet ANMF Vic members who are passionate about healthcare, sustainability and the environment. Looking forward to chatting with you! ⚡ #union #solidarity #cooperative #nursing #electricity
🚨🚨 If you're a customer member with CoPower Gas this is your LAST CHANCE to vote in our 2025 democratic gas budget 🚨🚨Check your email inbox for your ballot and remember to vote before MIDNIGHT tonight AEST. 1/2
August 17, 2025 at 1:54 AM
🚨🚨 If you're a customer member with CoPower Gas this is your LAST CHANCE to vote in our 2025 democratic gas budget 🚨🚨Check your email inbox for your ballot and remember to vote before MIDNIGHT tonight AEST. 1/2
🗳️ We've stoked to have received 20 votes just this morning bringing the total to 300 so far! We need another approx 100 votes to reach the 50% milestone. The election closing at midnight AEST this Sunday. If you're a customer member with CoPower Gas don't forget to check your email and vote TODAY! ✊
August 16, 2025 at 2:47 AM
🗳️ We've stoked to have received 20 votes just this morning bringing the total to 300 so far! We need another approx 100 votes to reach the 50% milestone. The election closing at midnight AEST this Sunday. If you're a customer member with CoPower Gas don't forget to check your email and vote TODAY! ✊
🚀 We just hit 266 votes!! This makes up 35% of all CoPower gas customers so far 🎉 and check out this great review from Joyce today! Thanks Joyce ✊ 1/4
August 12, 2025 at 3:49 AM
🚀 We just hit 266 votes!! This makes up 35% of all CoPower gas customers so far 🎉 and check out this great review from Joyce today! Thanks Joyce ✊ 1/4
🚀 We just hit 234 votes!! 🎉 That's 30% of all customer members with CoPower gas - This is energy democracy in action! ✊ If you're a customer member with CoPower gas, check your email for a link to vote on initiative(s) you would like to receive funding. 1/2
August 8, 2025 at 7:31 AM
🚀 We just hit 234 votes!! 🎉 That's 30% of all customer members with CoPower gas - This is energy democracy in action! ✊ If you're a customer member with CoPower gas, check your email for a link to vote on initiative(s) you would like to receive funding. 1/2
🚀 We just hit 200 votes!! 🎉 This is energy democracy in action! ✊ If you're a customer member with CoPower gas, check your email for a link to vote on initiative(s) you would like to receive funding. 1/2
August 4, 2025 at 2:39 AM
🚀 We just hit 200 votes!! 🎉 This is energy democracy in action! ✊ If you're a customer member with CoPower gas, check your email for a link to vote on initiative(s) you would like to receive funding. 1/2
🚀 Our 2025 democratic gas budget is LIVE!! Thanks to our customer members with CoPower Gas we have a $15,000 budget to transfer to initiatives that help our customer members lower emissions, save money and where possible get off gas 🌱 1/3
August 2, 2025 at 12:27 AM
🚀 Our 2025 democratic gas budget is LIVE!! Thanks to our customer members with CoPower Gas we have a $15,000 budget to transfer to initiatives that help our customer members lower emissions, save money and where possible get off gas 🌱 1/3
We've hit 750 CoPower Gas customer members! ✊🎉 This milestone means that we now have a $15,000 democratic budget to allocate to initiatives to help our CoPower Gas customer members reduce their energy use and where possible, get off gas. 1/3
July 31, 2025 at 6:56 AM
We've hit 750 CoPower Gas customer members! ✊🎉 This milestone means that we now have a $15,000 democratic budget to allocate to initiatives to help our CoPower Gas customer members reduce their energy use and where possible, get off gas. 1/3
✊ NOW is the chance to register to get involved in our exciting democratic gas budget. We are having our first meeting online THIS FRIDAY at 12:30 AEST. 1/4
July 20, 2025 at 5:08 AM
✊ NOW is the chance to register to get involved in our exciting democratic gas budget. We are having our first meeting online THIS FRIDAY at 12:30 AEST. 1/4
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Amidst a period of renewed enthusiasm for nuclear power, Nicholas Herriot takes us on a tour of the social and political history of uranium in Australia, and reflects on its possible futures.
Generously supported by @copower.bsky.social.
overland.org.au/2025/02/keep...
Generously supported by @copower.bsky.social.
overland.org.au/2025/02/keep...
Keeping it in the ground: pasts, presents and futures of Australian uranium - Overland literary journal
Uranium has come a long way from the “modern Midas mineral” of the 1950s. However, in an increasingly dangerous, militaristic and volatile world, it remains a lucrative and potentially lethal metal. A...
overland.org.au
February 27, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Amidst a period of renewed enthusiasm for nuclear power, Nicholas Herriot takes us on a tour of the social and political history of uranium in Australia, and reflects on its possible futures.
Generously supported by @copower.bsky.social.
overland.org.au/2025/02/keep...
Generously supported by @copower.bsky.social.
overland.org.au/2025/02/keep...
CoPower is excited to endorse Australia's first Extreme Heat Awareness Day today🌡️
It's critical to raise awareness of increasing temperatures and the growing risk of extreme heat - and the need to drive solutions and climate adaptations for all households.
It's critical to raise awareness of increasing temperatures and the growing risk of extreme heat - and the need to drive solutions and climate adaptations for all households.
February 5, 2025 at 2:04 AM
CoPower is excited to endorse Australia's first Extreme Heat Awareness Day today🌡️
It's critical to raise awareness of increasing temperatures and the growing risk of extreme heat - and the need to drive solutions and climate adaptations for all households.
It's critical to raise awareness of increasing temperatures and the growing risk of extreme heat - and the need to drive solutions and climate adaptations for all households.
Gas is now LIVE! 💥 245 households have added gas to their CoPower account. You can too by signing up today! cooperativepower.org.au/switch
You can feel better buying gas from us because we sell gas at wholesale rates with surplus revenue helping customer members get off gas 🌿
You can feel better buying gas from us because we sell gas at wholesale rates with surplus revenue helping customer members get off gas 🌿
February 3, 2025 at 5:33 AM
Gas is now LIVE! 💥 245 households have added gas to their CoPower account. You can too by signing up today! cooperativepower.org.au/switch
You can feel better buying gas from us because we sell gas at wholesale rates with surplus revenue helping customer members get off gas 🌿
You can feel better buying gas from us because we sell gas at wholesale rates with surplus revenue helping customer members get off gas 🌿
It is with a heavy heart that we share the news of the passing of Peter Reid, who was our Board Treasurer from 2019 until 2024.
Peter has been a great mentor, contributed immensely to our cooperative and he will be greatly missed.
Peter has been a great mentor, contributed immensely to our cooperative and he will be greatly missed.
January 31, 2025 at 4:44 AM
It is with a heavy heart that we share the news of the passing of Peter Reid, who was our Board Treasurer from 2019 until 2024.
Peter has been a great mentor, contributed immensely to our cooperative and he will be greatly missed.
Peter has been a great mentor, contributed immensely to our cooperative and he will be greatly missed.
In just the last month more than 200 households have switched to our Daytime Saver pilot offer! 🌞🎉
This allows customer members to benefit from solar energy even if they aren't in a position to install solar panels.
See if you're eligible here www.cooperativepower.org.au/switch/
This allows customer members to benefit from solar energy even if they aren't in a position to install solar panels.
See if you're eligible here www.cooperativepower.org.au/switch/
January 30, 2025 at 6:55 AM
In just the last month more than 200 households have switched to our Daytime Saver pilot offer! 🌞🎉
This allows customer members to benefit from solar energy even if they aren't in a position to install solar panels.
See if you're eligible here www.cooperativepower.org.au/switch/
This allows customer members to benefit from solar energy even if they aren't in a position to install solar panels.
See if you're eligible here www.cooperativepower.org.au/switch/
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“This review measures the magnitude of my frustration with the genre.”
To finish the year with a bang, we bring you Scott Robinson's autopsy of Royce Kurmelovs’ SLICK and journalism's approach to the climate crisis. Supported by our friends at @copower.bsky.social
To finish the year with a bang, we bring you Scott Robinson's autopsy of Royce Kurmelovs’ SLICK and journalism's approach to the climate crisis. Supported by our friends at @copower.bsky.social
Slippery totalities: appendices on oil and politics in Australia and beyond - Overland literary journal
Kurmelovs writes at this level of confusion and contradiction for an audience whose unspoken but vaguely progressive politics he takes for granted and yet whose assumed knowledge resembles that of an ...
overland.org.au
December 20, 2024 at 1:15 AM
“This review measures the magnitude of my frustration with the genre.”
To finish the year with a bang, we bring you Scott Robinson's autopsy of Royce Kurmelovs’ SLICK and journalism's approach to the climate crisis. Supported by our friends at @copower.bsky.social
To finish the year with a bang, we bring you Scott Robinson's autopsy of Royce Kurmelovs’ SLICK and journalism's approach to the climate crisis. Supported by our friends at @copower.bsky.social
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I'm going to spruik @copower.bsky.social right now because in a capitalist hellscape I genuinely feel like they are trying to put a lot of good out there. I'm glad we signed up last year. And our power bills are lower too.
Power gouge: how AGL and Origin are milking monster profits from battling families
December 11, 2024
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December 11, 2024
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Power gouge: how AGL and Origin are milking monster profits from battling families
New research from The Australia Institute shines a light on how much the nation’s two biggest energy retailers are gouging from Australian consumers.
australiainstitute.org.au
December 20, 2024 at 12:45 AM
I'm going to spruik @copower.bsky.social right now because in a capitalist hellscape I genuinely feel like they are trying to put a lot of good out there. I'm glad we signed up last year. And our power bills are lower too.
Another review in, this time from Tim who found it easy to switch to us and loves the feeling of contributing towards a fairer world with his energy bill!
December 10, 2024 at 1:03 AM
Another review in, this time from Tim who found it easy to switch to us and loves the feeling of contributing towards a fairer world with his energy bill!
We stand with striking warehouse workers at Woolworths (who co-own us). Their fight for fair treatment in the face of inhumane algorithms is part of the struggle for the social control of technology, and human decency in the midst of the climate crisis.
Go here: unitedworkers.org.au/woolworths/
Go here: unitedworkers.org.au/woolworths/
December 5, 2024 at 2:19 AM
We stand with striking warehouse workers at Woolworths (who co-own us). Their fight for fair treatment in the face of inhumane algorithms is part of the struggle for the social control of technology, and human decency in the midst of the climate crisis.
Go here: unitedworkers.org.au/woolworths/
Go here: unitedworkers.org.au/woolworths/
This week, we're supporting @envirovic.bsky.social (one of our co-owners) in their electrification week of action. Getting gas out of our homes is not a simple market choice, especially for renters.
Getting off gas requires resistance. Check EV's feeds to see how you can get in involved!
Getting off gas requires resistance. Check EV's feeds to see how you can get in involved!
December 3, 2024 at 12:44 AM
This week, we're supporting @envirovic.bsky.social (one of our co-owners) in their electrification week of action. Getting gas out of our homes is not a simple market choice, especially for renters.
Getting off gas requires resistance. Check EV's feeds to see how you can get in involved!
Getting off gas requires resistance. Check EV's feeds to see how you can get in involved!
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"People in the Latrobe valley do not want to live near a nuclear reactor, we want a renewable future not a radioactive one" Hayley Sestokas, Environment Victoria #NuclearFreeGippsland
December 2, 2024 at 11:38 PM
"People in the Latrobe valley do not want to live near a nuclear reactor, we want a renewable future not a radioactive one" Hayley Sestokas, Environment Victoria #NuclearFreeGippsland
Another 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 review. Thanks Damian! We're glad you found us both cheaper for you as well as resonant with your values!
December 2, 2024 at 2:27 AM
Another 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 review. Thanks Damian! We're glad you found us both cheaper for you as well as resonant with your values!
Here we've sponsored this beautiful piece by Sofia Sabbagh where the artist explores both human connection and forest critters.
In her latest, beautiful comic, Sofia Sabbagh goes in search of forest critters, from the graciillaridae to the psyllids. Generously sponsored by @copower.bsky.social.
So much to tell you: or, piercing plant tissue with needle-like mouth-parts - Overland literary journal
Looking for things meant I could enjoy the feeling in my body. Something like hope, or friendship.
overland.org.au
November 28, 2024 at 3:21 AM
Here we've sponsored this beautiful piece by Sofia Sabbagh where the artist explores both human connection and forest critters.