Bill Hero will help you find and stay on the best priced GreenPower renewable energy plans available from all retailers.
GreenPower is accredited renewable energy that is offered by participating retailers at a voluntary price uplift per kWh for the electricity you consume.
The additional price you pay per kWh eventually goes toward supporting renewable generation.
We say 'eventually' because there is a long, complicated and confusing path between you spending extra on GreenPower and renewable electricity generators seeing any benefit.
The key thing to understand is that there is no direct relationship between the extra price you pay to your retailer for GreenPower and the funding that eventually makes it to the renewable generators that you want to support.
Retailers are intermediaries in these cash flows and it's no surprise that some retailers engineer things to benefit themselves. Spending above the odds on GreenPower only helps your retailer.
See our support article All About Green Power for more information about the GreenPower scheme and how it works.
How does Bill Hero include GreenPower in the comparisons?
You can choose to apply the GreenPower price uplift to some, or all, of the electricity you consume.
Retailers set their own prices for the GreenPower price uplift, and until now, it's been very difficult to find the GreenPower plan that will deliver the best price outcomes for you.
Bill Hero makes it easy, by allowing you to include the GreenPower price uplift into your Bill Hero comparisons, so you can see exactly which plan represents the best price for you, at your chosen level of GreenPower.
Here's how it works (if the embedded video below does not load for you, its available here)
Not every retailer participates in the GreenPower scheme, and not every retailer offers the same set of proportional GreenPower options.
When you select any of the proportional GreenPower options in your Bill Hero results screen, your results set will be limited to showing only the plans from those retailers that offer GreenPower at your selected proportional level.
You can use the GreenPower tool in conjunction with the Green ranking filter to find the best priced GreenPower plan from the retailers that also meet or exceed your desired Green ranking.