3 Hours of Free Electricity: Labor Pitches Solar Sharer Plan for Households

Then-Shadow Energy Minister Chris Bowen holds up a solar panel during a speech at the end of House of Representatives Question Time at Parliament House in Canberra, on June 16, 2021. AAP Image/Lukas CochThe federal government has announced a new scheme that will offer households up to three hours of free electricity each day, targeting the period when solar energy is most abundant and often unused.The proposal, called Solar Sharer, is trying to encourage higher electricity use during the middle of the day when the grid is flooded with excess solar power—most of which currently goes unused because people are at work and there is not enough battery storage available.