Australian beer giant offers 30 free slabs of VB a year in exchange for solar energy
An Australian beer giant plans to help power its operations with extra energy from household rooftop solar systems - and will pay home owners with liquid gold. Carlton and United Breweries says its new 'solar exchange' program will let households exchange $30 worth of extra solar credit on their power bill for a slab of VB, which the brewery will deliver quarterly. 'We believe the average customer will get a slab a month,' Brian Phan from CUB told AAP. He said the company's Victoria Bitter was already brewed using offset solar power, and the extra rooftop solar would be used to power the comp...