Australian ownership

Want to buy Australian energy from Australian retailers?

Many Bill Hero subscribers are interested to understand the ownership structures of the retailers they purchase their energy from. We have plans to introduce ownership structure as a 'non-price' decision criteria in our recommendations and rankings. 

This functionality is not yet ready to deploy, so we have assembled this summary of the ownership structures for these retailers so our subscribers can manually review and choose their preferred supplier accordingly.

100% Australian - owned retailers

These retailers are wholly owned by Australian individuals and businesses entities

  • ActewAGL
  • Amber Electric
  • Aurora Energy
  • Bright Spark Power
  • Click Energy Partly
  • CovaU
  • Discover Energy
  • Dodo Partly
  • Elysian Energy
  • Ergon Energy
  • Energy Locals
  • Future X Power
  • GloBird Energy
  • LPE
  • Lumo Energy
  • Momentum Energy
  • People Energy
  • Pooled Energy
  • QEnergy
  • Red Energy
  • Sumo Power
  • Synergy
  • 1st Energy

Partly Australian owned retailers (includes publicly listed companies)

These retailers include some non-Australian ownership. We've included publicly listed retailers in the list because since they are public companies, they may have shareholders from outside Australia

  • AGL
  • Amaysim Energy
  • Commander Energy
  • DC Power Co
  • Diamond Energy
  • Enova Energy
  • Kogan Energy
  • Mojo Power
  • Origin Energy
  • Powerclub
  • Powerdirect
  • Powershop
  • ReAmped Energy

Foreign-owned retailers

These retailers are 100% non-Australian owned

  • Alinta Energy
  • Energy Australia
  • Nectr
  • OVO Energy
  • Simply Energy
  • Tango Energy 
  • Social Energy