📣 We've just hit a monumental 1,250 community pledges signed supporting CoPower 2.0! As we continue building this project together we're stoked that the momentum behind CoPower 2.0 continues to grow 🌱

🏛️ Today we handed our 1,000 community pledges booklet (pictured) over to Hon Lily D'Ambrosio, Victorian Minister for Climate Action, Energy and Resources, and the State Electricity Commission in our meeting with her at Victorian Parliament House.

👉 Please email your MP to make gas giants pay! It’s quick and easy via this form below 👇 www.getup.org.au/campaigns/ec... #gas

Make Gas Giants Pay

Gas corporations are making record-breaking profits, and paying almost nothing in tax. It's time to change that.

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🎉 Together we’ve reached a whopping 1,000 community pledges!! ✊✊ This is a significant milestone and affirmation of the values of our community.

🎉Together we’ve reached **900** community pledge signers! ✊ We’re stoked that so many people in our community have pledged their support and joined the process to help build CoPower 2.0

As the community pledges roll in we thought we’d share with you some of the awesome phrases we’ve been receiving as part of the pledges. Check them out below! ✊ If you haven't filled out the pledge yet you can at this link below. Help us get to 1,000 community pledge signs today ⚡

If you haven’t yet - please take our community pledge today! 👇 www.cooperativepower.org.au/take-our-com...

✊ Take our pledge today! 👇 We've had an overwhelming number of people taking our pledge which caused some issues with our website - now fixed 🤖✅

🎉🎉 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 ⚠️ engage.vic.gov.au/petroleum-ex... 1/5

Petroleum exploration permit tender

Have your say on the upcoming tender for petroleum exploration permits in the Otway and Gippsland basins.

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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

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

🗳️ 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

🚀 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

🚀 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

✊ 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

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...

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...

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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.

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 🌿

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.

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 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

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 ...

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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.

Maranoa Girl@maranoagirl.bsky.social · 2y ago

Power gouge: how AGL and Origin are milking monster profits from battling families December 11, 2024 australiainstitute.org.au/post/power-g...

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/

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!