Three Hours of Free Power for Everyone From July – but There’s a Catch

Australian households to get free solar power for three hours a day

Australians could get three hours of free solar power per day, even if they don't have solar panels, the Al...

Free electricity for some Aussies

Households will be able to charge EVs or run aircons for free under a new scheme encouraging the use of daytime solar power.

Energy retailers to be directed to offer free power three hours a day

Saying there is enough solar power for everyone in the daytime, Climate Change Minister Chris Bowen will direct retailers to provide three hours of free power every day to consumers.

Three hours of free power for everyone from July – but there’s a catch

Electricity companies will be forced to offer a new type of bill plan that supplies all households – with and without solar panels – with free power during the middle of the day.

Aussies to get 3 hours of free energy a day

Households will be able to charge EVs or run aircons for free under a new scheme encouraging the use of daytime solar power.

Solar Sharer: Bowen wants retailers to offer free electricity for three hours in middle of every day

Electricity retailers will be required to offer free solar power to households for at least three hours in the middle of each day, in a radical federal government reform.