{"id":17663,"date":"2021-05-26T16:27:14","date_gmt":"2021-05-26T06:27:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.originenergy.com.au\/blog\/?post_type=change&#038;p=17663"},"modified":"2024-02-23T14:17:34","modified_gmt":"2024-02-23T04:17:34","slug":"change55-greenpower","status":"publish","type":"change","link":"https:\/\/www.originenergy.com.au\/blog\/change\/change55-greenpower\/","title":{"rendered":"GreenPower"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Keen on green. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>With Origin, you can pay as little as $0.65 per week to offset your emissions and reduce the environmental impact of your energy consumption on your electricity plan. Or put more simply, pay 65 cents a week to tell everyone you&#8217;re a good person (without bragging it too much, as that may offset the whole \u2018good person\u2019 thing).<\/p>\n<p>When you choose <a href=\"https:\/\/www.originenergy.com.au\/electricity-gas\/green\/\">GreenPower<\/a>, you put government-accredited renewably-sourced energy into the electricity grid. However, regardless of whether you have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.originenergy.com.au\/electricity-gas\/green\/\">GreenPower<\/a> or not, you can take comfort from the commitments that Origin has to renewable energy. This includes sourcing renewable energy from:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Wind generation &#8211; We buy wind power from wind farms across South Australia, Victoria and New South Wales, a combined generation capacity of around 700 MW.<\/li>\n<li>Solar purchasing &#8211; Origin is Australia&#8217;s largest buyer of utility scale solar, with agreements to buy more than 680 MW of solar energy signed since 2016.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Origins also a leading installer of rooftop solar for homes and businesses across Australia. With over 15 years of solar experience, we\u2019ve installed more than one million <a href=\"https:\/\/www.originenergy.com.au\/solar\/packages\/\">solar panels<\/a> to date.<\/p>\n<p>And the cost of GreenPower? As little as 65 cents a week. Not bad for all of that.<\/p>\n<p>Want to find out more?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Want to up the green at home? When you choose GreenPower, you put government-accredited renewably-sourced energy into the electricity grid. Read on to find out&nbsp;more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":17665,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[46],"class_list":["post-17663","change","type-change","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-sustainability"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.originenergy.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/change\/17663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.originenergy.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/change"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.originenergy.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/change"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.originenergy.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.originenergy.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/change\/17663\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.originenergy.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.originenergy.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.originenergy.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}