Partnering up in the name of electrification

With years of experience working at Victorian Trades Hall Council, Melbourne, and as founder and board member of Earthworker Cooperative, Power Australia (an energy retailer) and Hope Cooperative (for young asylum seekers), Colin Long is turning his vision and drive for working better together to the electrification space. In mid-2023, Colin helped bring together a formidable alliance of energy efficiency and electrification businesses, trades and organisations to help tackle the scale of the problem facing Victoria’s homes. Energy Efficiency and Electrification Alliance, or 3EA (as it is nicknamed), is aiming to be the one-stop-shop that households, government and NGO organisations need to help smooth the transition towards all-electric homes and businesses. The role of 3EA is to interface between larger organisations, and to provide some clarity and certainty for the…