{"id":19210,"date":"2025-11-10T15:48:17","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T15:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/youtubomatic-test\/demoa26f6b3a\/2025\/11\/10\/nationwide-plan-to-give-some-households-free-power-during-the-day-abc-news\/"},"modified":"2025-11-10T15:48:17","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T15:48:17","slug":"nationwide-plan-to-give-some-households-free-power-during-the-day-abc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/youtubomatic-test\/demoa26f6b3a\/2025\/11\/10\/nationwide-plan-to-give-some-households-free-power-during-the-day-abc-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Nationwide plan to give some households free power during the day | ABC NEWS"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"youtubomatic-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"autoplay\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QGsbd9PwEB4?controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Australian households will soon have access to free electricity in the middle of the day to encourage more energy usage when solar power is at its highest.<br \/>The free power initiative will be rolled out in a few states starting next year, with consultation to expand it to follow.<br \/>But critics say the free solar could still come with a hidden cost.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe: <a href=\"http:\/\/ab.co\/1svxLVE\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/ab.co\/1svxLVE<\/a><br \/>Read more here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2025-11-04\/solar-sharer-free-energy-three-hours-outlier-states\/105968998\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2025-11-04\/solar-sharer-free-energy-three-hours-outlier-states\/105968998<\/a><\/p>\n<p>ABC NEWS provides around the clock coverage of news events as they break in Australia and abroad. It&#8217;s news when you want it, from Australia&#8217;s most trusted news organisation.<\/p>\n<p>For more from ABC NEWS, click here: <a href=\"https:\/\/ab.co\/2kxYCZY\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/ab.co\/2kxYCZY<\/a><br \/>Watch more ABC NEWS content ad-free on ABC iview: <a href=\"https:\/\/ab.co\/2OB7Mk1\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/ab.co\/2OB7Mk1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Go deeper on our ABC NEWS In-depth channel: <a href=\"https:\/\/ab.co\/2lNeBn2\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/ab.co\/2lNeBn2<\/a><br \/>Like ABC NEWS on Facebook: <a href=\"http:\/\/facebook.com\/abcnews.au\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/facebook.com\/abcnews.au<\/a><br \/>Follow ABC NEWS on Instagram: <a href=\"http:\/\/instagram.com\/abcnews_au\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/instagram.com\/abcnews_au<\/a><br \/>Follow ABC NEWS on X (Twitter): <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/abcnews\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/twitter.com\/abcnews<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Note: In most cases, our captions are auto-generated.<\/p>\n<p>#ABCNEWS #ABCNEWSAustralia<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australian households will soon have access to free electricity in the middle of the day to encourage more energy usage when solar power is at its highest.The free power initiative will be rolled out in a few states starting next year, with consultation to expand it to follow.But critics say the free solar could still [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8553,"featured_media":19211,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4787,4788,4786,4832,1678,53,1875,8747,15054,2905,118,31,1884,34,1883],"tags":[4771,4772,4770,4825,1657,26,1845,8743,15048,2895,61,4,1854,7,1853],"class_list":["post-19210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abc","category-abc-news","category-australia","category-australia-news","category-australian-news","category-electricity","category-energy","category-free-electricity","category-free-power","category-news","category-power","category-renewable-energy","category-renewables","category-solar-power","category-wind-power","tag-abc","tag-abc-news","tag-australia","tag-australia-news","tag-australian-news","tag-electricity","tag-energy","tag-free-electricity","tag-free-power","tag-news","tag-power","tag-renewable-energy","tag-renewables","tag-solar-power","tag-wind-power"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/youtubomatic-test\/demoa26f6b3a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/youtubomatic-test\/demoa26f6b3a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/youtubomatic-test\/demoa26f6b3a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/youtubomatic-test\/demoa26f6b3a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8553"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/youtubomatic-test\/demoa26f6b3a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/youtubomatic-test\/demoa26f6b3a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19210\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/youtubomatic-test\/demoa26f6b3a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/youtubomatic-test\/demoa26f6b3a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/youtubomatic-test\/demoa26f6b3a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/youtubomatic-test\/demoa26f6b3a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}