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ENOVA Australias First Community Owned Energy Retailer Svea Pitman Manager Enova Community Sustainable Futures Convention March 2019 Enova Community Energy Ltd Alison Crook February 2019 enovaenergy.com.au Overview

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ENOVA

Australia’s First Community Owned Energy Retailer

Svea Pitman

Manager – Enova Community

Sustainable Futures Convention

March 2019

Enova Community Energy Ltd Alison Crook February 2019 enovaenergy.com.au

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Overview

  • Enova’s Story
  • Social Enterprise Community Benefit
  • What We Do
  • Reducing Carbon
  • Energy Education
  • Energy Equity
  • The Energy Industry, Carbon

Emissions & NEM

Enova Community Energy Ltd Alison Crook February 2019 enovaenergy.com.au

  • Community Housing
  • Solar Gardens
  • Micro Grids
  • Questions
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Enova Community Energy Ltd Alison Crook September 2018 enovaenergy.com.au

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Enova Community Energy Ltd Alison Crook February 2019 enovaenergy.com.au

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  • 2014 Bentley Anti CSG campaign
  • 2015 Feasibility Study > Business plan

Retail Licence application + Prospectus

  • Capital raise: Late August to December 2015 ; 30+ events in region plus Sydney Brisbane and

Newcastle

  • 1100 investors, 73% from region = $4m raised
  • 2016 set up systems : first retail customers
  • 2018 Sep-Nov Equity Crowdfund raised $1m
  • 2019 March = 5500 + customers

Enova Community Energy Ltd Alison February 2019 enovaenergy.com.au

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Enova Community Energy Ltd Alison Crook February 2019 enovaenergy.com.au

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How Do We Benefit The Community?

Retain OPEX and profits and over time energy production in Northern Rivers Region : 130 000 homes = $360+ million leaving each year Create direct and indirect employment Majority community owned Half returns to social benefit projects to assist all to access renewable energy Partner with communities to drive new model and more affordable energy for all

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What Is A Social Enterprise?

  • An organisation created to further a social purpose in

a financially sustainable way

  • Organisations with a social equity focus, changing

the world for the better

  • They derive a substantial portion of their income

from trade and reinvest profits back into the

  • rganisation or the local community. When they

profit, community benefits.

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Why It Matters: The Difference

  • Driven by people who are committed to social benefit
  • Circular Economy - Keeping money circulating within communities

and people supporting each other

  • Opportunity to live life with purpose
  • Social equity - paying fair
  • What consumers want

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Community Partnerships & Affordable Energy

VISION

  • Communities powering themselves
  • Decentralised, Distributed, Digital, Democratic
  • Regional systems, self sufficient in energy

HOW

  • Our licence allows us to sell across NEM (Vic aside) – Currently NSW Essential
  • Our back-office systems are scalable
  • We can shape relationships /partnerships to meet the needs of other regional

communities

  • Partner with existing community renewable energy groups

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  • Partnership between the customer (now a producer/consumer), retailer & the

network

  • Additional storage managed by networks
  • Smart technology managing network peaks
  • Microgrids/Embedded networks
  • Geographic communities largely independent
  • The customer shares in the savings of a lower cost network.

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Regional Energy System

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How Do We Reduce Carbon Emissions?

Focus on sale of renewable energy Good FiT offer: encourage more renewable technology on homes & businesses Support and facilitate community generation projects

  • VPP, solar gardens, micro-grids & CORE ownership models

AND ….. Energy Efficiency & Education!

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Community Benefit Projects

  • Solar PV for Social Housing - OEH - NCCH project
  • Assisting community and other NFPs to access funds for solar

PV : COREM : CORENA :Red Inc

  • Community owned Solar Gardens for renters &

those locked out of home solar PV

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Education & Energy Efficiency

  • Volunteers recruited & trained for Energy Efficiency audits: Enova

Energy Coaches

  • Provide information at stalls and events
  • Offer Energy Efficiency presentations to organisations, clubs
  • Other regions obtained training for Enova Energy Coaches – Coffs,

Bellingen, Uralla, Newcastle

  • Repower projects

www.repowerbyron.org.au

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Facts about the Energy Industry

  • Over a third of Australia's carbon emissions from burning fossil fuel
  • 86% of electricity in the grid from fossil fuel generation 100s Km away:
  • NEM Machine – est 1998
  • Massive Distribution Loses
  • Big 3 all heavily invested in fossil fuel

generation and CSG

(…despite the current GreenWash…)

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3 Components to the Australian Energy Industry

  • Generation
  • Distribution
  • Retail

14 retailers serving residential customers Big 3 dominate with 91% NSW market – ‘GenTailers’

AGL, Origin, Energy Australia All involved in CSG and Fossil Fuel Generation

Enova

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20th Century Energy Model

Generation Transmission Distribution Customer

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21st CENTURY ENERGY MODEL

Regional

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Competitive overview – solar offers

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More About our Projects

  • Social Housing
  • Solar Gardens
  • Micro Grids (embedded networks)

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Enova Solar Housing Project

Outcomes

  • 64kW on 27 houses,
  • 13 home energy efficiency

audits

  • New model of tenant finance
  • Capacity building for all
  • Strong partner relationships
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WHAT IS A SOLAR GARDEN?

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How Will The Solar Garden Work?

  • 1. Register your interest on Enova's website
  • 2. Buy a membership in Solar Garden
  • 3. Enova gives you a electricity credit on your electricity

bill for the energy 'grown' in real time in your Solar Garden plot

  • 4. Enjoy the environmental benefits of solar and the

savings on your bill

Enova Community Energy Ltd Alison Crook October 2017 enovaenergy.com.au

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In Summary – Projected Savings

Enova Community Energy Ltd Alison Crook October 2017 enovaenergy.com.au

SUBSCRIBE KW ANNUAL CREDIT app $1000 1 $180 - $230 app $2000 2 $360 - $460 app $3000 3 $540 - $690

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Benefits

Garden members

  • Cheaper energy bills High return on investment rate
  • Pay itself off in around 4-5 years
  • Take it with you when you move (EE only atm)
  • Ability to gift or sell your membership
  • Gift panels to someone to lower their energy bills

Host Business

  • No cost for solar install and maintenance
  • Business receives discount off their electricity bill
  • Acting on Climate Change

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Micro Grid Byron Bay Industrial Estate

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Think about where you get your energy – are you invested in CSG? New Coal? …

  • r a Renewables Future ☺

www.enovaenergy.com.au SWITCH TODAY! Get involved in local renewable energy projects

  • Solar on community buildings
  • Local solar farm options - work with Enova
  • Join a local renewable energy group –or set one up
  • Talk to your friends & family about renewables & Climate Action
  • Start a sustainable street program – Repower!!

www.repowerbyron.org.au

What Can We Do As Community?

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Good news! It is not too late.... Start by looking at Major Home Energy Use

  • Cooling and Heating
  • Hot water
  • Refrigeration
  • Pools, Spas & Pumps

As individuals what We Can Do at Home?

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We don’t have to wait for politicians to take the lead

Repower Today!!

  • SWITCH – to 100% renewable GreenPower
  • REDUCE - your power use
  • PRODUCE - your own power

You Have The Power To ACT on Climate Change TODAY

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LET’S CREATE CHANGE TOGETHER!

QUESTIONS

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Enova Community Energy Ltd Alison Crook February 2019 enovaenergy.com.au

  • A social enterprise formed to

assist households and communities to take control

  • f their own power and drive

regional development.

  • Australia’s first community
  • wned energy retailer.
  • An electricity retailer
  • ffering consumer and SME

contracts for standard power, green power, solar feed-in- tariffs and community generation products.

  • Enova is working to change

the energy model to a distributed model in which consumers as producers participate in the benefits, and there is less reliance on centralised generation and long-distance transmission.

  • As retailer in the existing

centralised system Enova competes with the 3 large retailers, Origin, AGL and Energy Australia and a number of smaller retailers.

  • 50% of profits once achieved

will go back into the community via our non-profit arm, Enova Community Ltd. Enova won “Best of the Best award for Regional Sustainability” at the 2017 NSW Government Green Globe Awards.