MELBOURNE — How about a cool beer in exchange for your excess solar power?
That’s the offer from Asahi Group’s Carlton and United Breweries (CUB) in Australia, serving up Victorian Bitter to households who have rooftop solar power to spare, in what the companies involved believe to be a world first.
Along with putting solar panels on its Melbourne brewery and buying power from a solar farm, CUB is looking to buy excess solar power from households, paying in cans of beer instead of cash, to help meet its target to use 100 percent renewable power by 2025.
“The only thing better than drinking the Big Cold Beer in the Aussie sun is earning beer while you do it,” said Brian Pha…
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