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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote] PERTH, Nov 4 (Reuters) - Australia will offer at least three hours of free solar power every day to households including those without solar panels under an energy-saving programme that is expected to go live in 2026, energy minister Chris Bowen said on Tuesday.
The Solar Sharer programme will begin in the states of New South Wales and South Australia as well as southeast Queensland before it is expanded elsewhere[/quote]
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/australia-offer-three-hours-free-solar-per-day-millions-2025-11-04/

Australia generates too much electricity during peak times for solar. The huge increase in residential solar installations has created a record drop in demand during peak generation times. They hope this will shift how residential power use during the day.

Unlike here where we have to pay for data centers![/quote]

Australian has about the same land mass of America with 10% of the population.

Not gonna happen in the US. [/quote]

Do you know how much empty land there is in the southwest/nevada/Utah?[/quote]

It’s not “empty land”. Things live there. Plants and animals that are found nowhere else.

You think we should pave it over with solar panels and kill everything living there so you can charge your EV? [/quote]

You can install solar over parking lots. If you installed solar over just large parking lot in the US you could generate 1,500 to 4,400 TWh. That would be about a 1/4 of the large parking lot in the US.[/quote]

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