Constituency questions
Northern Metropolitan Region
Sheena WATT (Northern Metropolitan) (12:31): (1238) My question is to the Minister for Environment in the other place. Over the past month I have been enthusiastically engaging with my constituents about Solar Victoria’s generous rebates for solar panels, heat pumps and energy storage batteries. My constituents in the Northern Metropolitan Region have been excited to hear how switching to solar can save individual households thousands of dollars on their energy bills. I am sure that we will agree that this is an invaluable measure to alleviate some cost-of-living pressures and reduce our state’s carbon emissions. One of my constituents, Zoe, raised a question about how Victoria is managing waste from solar PV panels, which I am raising again here today. My question to the minister is: what action is the Allan Labor government taking to ensure that solar products do not reach landfills at the end of their life cycles?