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Victorians to miss out on electricity bill credits in energy rebate cut
Hundreds of thousands of Victorian households with rooftop solar will miss out on electricity bill credits after a proposed slashing of a solar energy rebate.
A draft decision by the Essential Services Commission would slash the minimum “feed-in tariff” – which allows customers to sell their excess solar electricity back into the grid – from 3.3 cents per kilowatt hour to just 0.04 cents per kilowatt hour in the 2025-26 financial year.
The ESC is an independent body but opposition energy spokesman David Davis said Labor’s “chaotic” policy making had left people short-changed.
“The decision was announced today by the ESC with a short period for comment but will likely see the flat feed-in tariff fall by 99 per cent, to virtually nothing,” Mr Davis said. “Such is the disorder and chaos in the Victorian energy market after 10 years of Labor that these chaotic decisions to slash feed-in fees will pull support from people who in good faith had invested in solar rooftop systems.