How it Works - Amber Electric

a fairer, greener and cheaper model

Amber’s designed from the ground up to make it simple and rewarding for you to use more green energy.

The more you shift to greener, cheaper times, the more you can save.

WE DO ENERGY DIFFERENTLY

With Amber, it's easy and rewarding to use more green energy. Unlike traditional energy retailers, Amber gives you access to wholesale electricity prices - which are cheaper when the sun's shining and the wind's blowing.
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We only charge $15 subscription to run the business and we make $0 of your energy use. Here are the other ways we do energy differently:

Amber vs Traditional retailer

Set retail
price

Variable wholesale price

Profits off your usage

Amber makes $0 from your usage

No incentive to use renewables

Get rewarded for using renewables

No visibility of prices and renewables

Get empowered with prices and energy insights

Only offsetting
plans

Offset and reduce
emissions

Renewable % and prices

See live updates on how much green energy is in the grid and access live wholesale electricity prices in your state.

Usage history and insights

See how much energy you use with daily metrics, detailed price graphs and compare your usage to your running average.

Individual solar prices

Track your live solar feed-in tariff - including a 12-hour forecast and 6-hour history.

It's easy to switch

We'll contact your current provider and it's easy to switch back if you change your mind - there are no lock in contracts or exit fees. In just 3 minutes you can start making a big impact.

Join Amber and pay less for electricity when cheap renewables are generating with wholesale pricing.

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SEE WHOLESALE PRICES

Common questions we get asked

How is Amber different to other energy providers?

Amber was founded by climate activist Dan Adams and techie mate Chris Thompson to solve the biggest problem holding Australia back from reaching 100% renewable energy: making it easier and rewarding for more Aussies to use more green energy and act on climate change. While other green energy providers focus on offsetting your fossil fuel energy use, we’re laser-focused on helping you reduce your fossil fuel use in the first place.

I'm on a green energy plan. Aren't I already using more green energy?

Right now, for anyone on a traditional retail energy plan - even a green energy plan - it’s very hard to actually use more green energy. We all draw power from the same grid and traditional plans don’t provide you with the tools you need - for example, live wholesale energy prices that drop when there’s more green energy in the grid, and the % of renewable energy in real time. Amber empowers you to make a choice.

What exactly are wholesale prices?

All energy retailers buy their electricity from the same wholesale electricity market, where prices are set every 30 minutes. The wholesale price is the true price for your usage that Amber (and other retailers) have to pay to provide you energy. The wholesale price includes wholesale energy costs (which vary every 30 mins), hedging costs, the rates charged by your local network (who own the poles and wires), metering costs and regulated charges for environmental schemes and market operations. We also add on a carbon offset to make your energy use carbon neutral.
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Why does Amber charge a subscription fee?

While Amber offers the same 100% Carbon Neutral and GreenPower plans as other electricity providers, our model goes a step further than the rest. For a $15 a month subscription, you get access to wholesale electricity prices and the Amber app which enable you to shift more of your energy use to when power is both greener and cheaper.

Unlike other energy retailers who charge a mark-up on the energy you use, Amber makes exactly $0 on your energy usage and empowers you to go beyond offsetting. We’re so committed to our mission that the monthly fee is the only revenue we generate to run the business.