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Surprised by Powershop’s
sale to Shell?
So were we.
Powershop, a NZ spin-out of Meridian Energy that later expanded to Australia, was the poster child of the growing green movement. With friendly messaging, decent technology, a generation fleet that was purely renewable, and carbon offsets, it ticked as many green boxes as any energy retailer could.
If, like us, you were taken by surprise by the news that Powershop will soon be owned by Shell and are thinking of switching, here are a few things about how we can help:
- We partner with community and commercial organisations looking to do great things in the renewable energy space and provide retail services to help them achieve their goals. We support Tesla, Amber, Sonnen, Co-Operative Power, Indigo Power and others.
- We don’t earn money when you use power. We use a fixed membership approach so that you get energy at wholesale prices that are guaranteed to change only once per year. By not earning money from energy usage, our incentives are aligned with yours.
- We were awarded Green Retailer of the Year (retail only) this year and last year.
- We’re majority owned by Quinbrook Infrastructure Partners. Quinbrook manages super fund money and invests solely in renewables in Australia, the UK and the US.
- Our sister business is Cape Byron Power in northern NSW, where they generate power from sugarcane and wood waste. We buy energy from Cape Byron Power in NSW. They have never sourced native forest timber from State or private native forests.
- Our energy is 100% carbon offset thanks to our purchase and surrender of international carbon credits. We proudly offset all our customers usage and include it as standard in our plans. This isn’t a long-term solution but it’s a start while we get the transition to 100% renewables moving faster.
- We support the government-accredited GreenPower program so that customers can choose to purchase 100%, 50% or 10% GreenPower.
- We’ll launch gas very early in the new year. We’re just waiting for Energy Safe Vic to give the final approval.
- Our team is 100% based right here in Australia so you’re assured of quality, local service when you need us.
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Adrian Merrick
Founder and CEO
Adrian was born in Melbourne and grew up in Adelaide before his parents moved to the UK when he was nearly 14. Since leaving home at 16 to join the Air Force, Adrian has quite literally dug holes to bury other people’s crap, served on a mountain rescue team, lived and worked in India, been part of a dot-com startup at the turn of the Millennium, started a teddy bear business (but don’t tell anyone about that), turned around a $700 million energy business, got an MBA, and spent 4 years running one of Australia’s largest energy retailers.
After 15 years in the energy sector, Adrian wanted to put his experience to good use to create something that genuinely helps customers and great organisations. And here it is: Energy Locals, which aims to kill off the traditional retail model by dismantling the things that customers find oh so frustrating about today’s energy.
Adrian is a self-confessed workaholic who finds work more of a hobby than a job. This can displease the team at times, who often wake up to a little collection of new messages. He relaxes – well, never really – and loves his hobby of DJing, even though he’s really quite bad at it. Unfortunately, with lockdown it is only his family who has had the joy of his hobby
Julian Duggan
Principal, Community Energy Networks
Julian co-founded Energy Trade in 2013 and has over 10 years of energy industry experience.
He is passionate about delivering innovative and cutting edge renewable energy solutions for the community.
Julian is a Sydney local but spent his younger years in the Victorian snowy mountains and high country. It was not uncommon for he and his family to find a remote location in the bush and camp for the weekend. Julian’s hobbies involved, friends and family and lots of sport!
Darren Read
Principal, Community Energy Networks
Darren co-founded Energy Trade and brings over 20 years experience of working with developers and builders. He leads a client-focused sales team who are passionate on tailoring the best sustainable energy solutions. He is enthusiastic about delivering the latest renewable technologies within the energy sector for all residents within our Community Energy networks to take advantage of.
Michelle Monaghan
Chief Operations Officer
Michelle has extensive experience across a number of industries – including a complete career change for 5 years in aged care, but most of her career has been spent in Energy. We are not sure what she is most passionate about – Energy, Footy or Family! It might depend on the day. A born and bred Sydney sider yet a passionate AFL fan (Go Swannies) Michelle keeps busy with work, family and pets! And keeping an eye out for emails from her workaholic boss.
Dirk Legenhausen
Chief Financial Officer
Dirk brings over 30 years of financial experience, having worked in the energy sector for Tango and Pacific Hydro for the last 10 years. Dirk started his career in Germany – but the Sydney 2000 Olympics drew Dirk and his family to Australia – spectators, not competitors!He fell in love with the country and he and his extended family have called Australia home ever since. Dirk enjoys taking out his frustrations with those who don’t share his passion for accounting and spreadsheets on the squash court and enjoys many active outdoor activities.
Sally Pollard
Head of People & Culture & General Manager of SES
Sally has over 18 years of HR experience in a number of different industry sectors including; energy, banking and finance, legal, insurance and government. The energy sector by far peaks Sally’s interest level and she is particularly excited about the renewable energy space. Sally is passionate about all things people and ensuring the team have a positive, lasting relationship with the business.
Having spent over 24 years in Australia after backpacking the world in her early 20’s, her family and roots are firmly ingrained in the Northern Beaches of Sydney. Sally enjoys netball and tennis and still remains fiercely competitive – even though her aging body tells her otherwise! In her spare time Sally also enjoys catching up with book club, more commonly referred to as “wine club”.
Luke Melisi
Partnerships
Luke brings more than 15 years’ experience to our Partnerships team – even though no-one believes he’s old enough to have been working that long! He’s worked across large customer facing businesses in the UK & Australia, making a move into the energy industry 9 years ago. When he’s not dreaming about playing golf, or reminiscing about when he used to be a half-decent footballer (“real” football with a round ball, as he argues), he’s driven to deliver innovative, outstanding products and customer experiences.
Luke brings to Energy Locals a real desire for change, having spent most of his career identifying ways to improve business performance to benefit its customers, and he loves to share that passion with prospective partners and customers alike.
Waffle
The Office Dog
Hello, I’m Waffle and I’m a five year old Groodle. I eat most things although ideally not fruit or vegetables. I think humans might call this a paleo diet or something like that. I call it a Dog Diet and anything that a vegetarian wouldn’t eat can be put in my bowl, thank you very much. I also eat things that seem to get people upset. I love thongs and have worked my way through quite a few pairs. Once I chewed and then hid a toilet brush under the sofa when I was on my own. That really confused them for a few hours. Personally, I thought it was a genius move.
I love going to the office. It’s full of people with interesting smells and food. They give me lots of attention which, as a dog, I very much enjoy. I’m not allowed in every day because there have been a couple of incidents. There was an awkward moment in a meeting room once (I was busting), and then there was the issue with the pot plants. I like digging and nobody told me that pot plants aren’t just tiny little gardens.
This lot work very hard. I help them relax by showing them that I care about only them, and what’s happening right now. And food of course. Anyway, gotta go – I think I smell chicken coming from the kitchen, so I’m off to put on my cute face and pretend I was last fed two weeks ago.