The Victorian People's Grid
Our goal is to become a significant part of this new era of Community Energy in Australia
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We can create Australia’s clean energy future. One community at a time.
The People's Grid is Australia’s revolutionary energy movement. Join us to become part of a local grid of households, businesses, community groups, and energy producers. Let’s power a greener future. This is grassroots energy.
Why Us
Small switch. Giant impact.
We are the new energy builders. Individuals, households with rooftop solar, and renewable energy producers unite to create a local, renewable energy grid. Together, we power The People’s Grid.
The People's Grid Ecosystem
The role you play in our grid
Energy Allies
People who switch to buy energy through The People's Grid.
Allies strengthen our grid and help us fund future climate and energy projects.
Energy Amplifiers
People with rooftop solar can add to the grid.
Amplifiers are paid to feed excess solar into The People's Grid. They’re prosumers and help power the community.
Energy Producers
Local, renewable energy producers powering our grid nationwide.
Our grid’s heavy lifters. These local generators ensure a stable and renewable power supply — through solar, wind and biogas.
Collective Power
Community powers The People’s Grid
Start a Collective so your community can access local, renewable energy. You can even use it to raise funds for a common goal. An opportunity to build your own grid and power your community.
Collectives already powering The People's Grid
Form your own collective and bring local, renewable energy to your community today.
Start a collective
Frequently Asked
For the first time in Australia, The People's Grid offers users a choice: To fund Big Energy and support executives' pay and overseas shareholders? Or to join an energy supplier that supports local, renewable generators and communities?
We believe in a movement that champions locally-sourced energy. This ranges from renewable sources such as your neighbour's rooftop solar to local producers like your local wind farm. When local community activities, clubs, groups, and organisations are part of that equation – whether they're installing more solar and batteries, encouraging the switch to more sustainble greener sources, or raising some extra money for their local social activities – the end result is a community that becomes a powerhouse of change.
The People’s Grid has kicked off in South Australia, with Victoria following closely. We will soon expand to Queensland and NSW with plans to go national –and beyond!– so stay tuned for regular updates.
Communities can launch their own community energy plan without the hassle of starting an electricity retailer from scratch. Not only is this time consuming and costly, it also involves a lot of risk and compliance – overhwelming to say the least!
We partner with licensed electricity retailer, Circular Energy, to solve this issue. At its core, The People's Grid allows members to essentially build their own grid. Each member of our grid joins a Collective (or community group) that creates their offer using the rooftop solar, batteries, solar and wind farms, or biomass generators already in their community. This is what we mean when we say that members can build their own grid. Then, we use smart meter data and our proprietary matching algorithm to ensure consistent energy and to match supply and demand every half hour.
The energy market is experiencing a huge shift away from dominant fossil fuel generators to one where an increasing number of homes and businesses are becoming independent, mini-power producers. The problem is that large energy companies dominate the market and control both the supply and distribution of energy. Households and businesses want change but, as it stands, the market constrains them.
The People’s Grid was designed to allow households and businesses to share energy within their community. Given the energy market is becoming decenstralised, there is real opportunity to reimagine how and where we get our energy. We believe it should be people-powered, green, and renewable.
We also believe communities should benefit from this big shift which is why we've structred in the concept of Collectives. This way, both climate impact and local social impact work hand-in-hand.
The energy exported from producers will be matched with customers' consumption based on a hierarchy of preferences. If there's too much available energy available and not enough demand, the energy producers will be paid out the wholesale price at the time of export.