It’s pretty clear that this QT has lost the plot, so enter Michael McCormack to just really drive that point home:

I refer to Labor’s disastrous solar sharer program. Senior energy analyst Michael Wu has slammed Labor thought bubble is another fully thought through market intervention and warned the widow of electricity during the day would have to be offset by higher prices at other times to cover the fixed costs. By how much would other electricity users have to pay to subsidise this folly?

I mean, yes let’s all be shocked that the energy industry that loves high profits isn’t happy with having to give some people free power (this is a plan that is already offered by some retailers by the way) and that someone who works at the CIS is also shocked by this.

Chris Bowen:

I think I do need to advise the honorable member, my friend that he could have found a better expert than that individual…not sure he is the sort of person I would be quoting. Maybe you could have quoted the Chief Executive of the climate of energy finance and who said ‘this is excellent’.

It doesn’t take much to trigger them, does it, Mr Speaker? Imagine clean energy and away they go. Yesterday we mentioned the Business Council of Australia and that set them off. You cannot win.

Bran Black, the chief executive of the business council of Australia…is not credible, and now I quote the chief executive of climate energy finance who said ‘this is excellent, this means many more consumers will benefit from free power at zero cost to the market and that will massively incentivise demand while shifting to the middle of the day’.

Or Stephanie Basheer from Nexa Advisory, an advisory company who said that ‘this policy will incentivise consumers to be the energy consumption at the cheaper times of the day and that is good for their bills and good for the network, crucially it will force the energy to innovate’

He goes on listing people who agree with him.