Steve Georganas (Hindmarsh, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

I rise today to speak about the silent rip-off that's occurring in the energy industry around the country right now, as we speak. I've been made aware by constituents in my electorate of businesses connecting solar panel systems and it then taking four to five months to connect the meters, which allow the customer to collect the feed-in tariff. This means the customer is subsidising the energy company with free electricity until the energy company, at some stage, when it feels like it, gets around to counting the feed-in electricity. This is outrageous. It means that energy companies are stealing money from the consumer. There is absolutely no incentive to pay the customer what they are owed in good faith. Delays benefit the big energy providers.

Mr Craig Kelly interjecting—

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