Run your appliances when power is free.

Australian retailers now offer three hours of free electricity in the middle of the day. Power Saver: Solar Sharer App helps you take advantage of this by estimating the savings of your different appliances, reminding you to start and stop them and tally up what you saved over time.

App Store: coming soon Google Play: coming soon

Free for iPhone and Android. No account, and nothing you enter leaves your phone.

See how it works
Power Saver: Solar Sharer App home screen counting down to the free power window, with appliance cards showing the estimated saving per run and the week’s schedule
Three free hours a day

Free electricity, every day, in the middle of the day

Since 1 July 2026, retailers in New South Wales, south-east Queensland and South Australia must offer a Solar Sharer plan with three free hours of electricity every day. Victoria’s Midday Power Saver started on 1 October 2026. You need a smart meter and you have to ask your retailer for the plan. Solar panels are not required. Up to 24 kWh a day is free.


This is a new opertunity to reduce your energy bills but only if you run things during that time. This app is built to help remind you and manage. your usage during that free energy window.

WhereFree hoursSincePlan
New South Wales11 am to 2 pm1 July 2026Solar Sharer Offer
Queensland, south-east11 am to 2 pm1 July 2026Solar Sharer Offer
Queensland, regional11 am to 2 pm1 July 2026Ergon Solar Sharer tariff
South Australia12 pm to 3 pm1 July 2026Solar Sharer Offer
Victoria11 am to 2 pm1 October 2026Victorian Midday Power Saver
WA, Tasmania, ACT, NTNot yetNo date setSome retailers offer their own free hours
How it works

Three steps, then the reminders do the rest

1

Set your window and rate

Enter the free hours on your plan and your usual rate from your bill.

2

Customise your appliances

We support most appliances under the energy rating scheme or use typical appliance estimates.

3

Schedule and get reminded

Schedule a reminder to run your washing, charge your EV or any other high consumption appliance in your home. We even tell you how long to set an appliance timmer for.

Power Saver: Solar Sharer App home screen: a countdown to the next free power window, this month’s and all-time savings, and appliance cards sorted by saving per run

Your free power window, counted down

The home screen counts down to the next window and lists what you planned for the week. Each appliance card shows its estimated saving per run.

  • The latest start time for each run, so it finishes inside the window.
  • The delay to set on an appliance timer, for example “set the timer for 6 h 21 m”.
  • A reminder when the window opens, and an optional switch-off reminder ten minutes before it ends.
  • Savings estimates over time

Estimates built on the official Energy Rating data

Appliance figures come from the Australian Government’s Energy Rating dataset: the registrations behind the star labels on dishwashers, washing machines, dryers, air conditioners and pool pumps. Choose your brand and model and the app uses that model’s tested energy per cycle. Not sure which model you have? Pick a Typical model by star rating.


Power Saver: Solar Sharer App appliances screen listing an EV charger, dryer, air conditioner, pool pump and washing machine with their Energy Rating star labels, energy per load and estimated saving

Any free-hours plan

Solar Sharer, Victoria’s Midday Power Saver, or a market plan with four free hours. Set the hours on your plan, including 12 pm to 3 pm in South Australia.

Estimates you can check

Saving per run is the energy per run times your rate.

Nothing to connect

The app helps you build the behaviour required to take advantage of the free energy.

Common questions

Free electricity hours

A regulated electricity plan with three free hours of electricity every day in the middle of the day. Retailers in New South Wales, south-east Queensland and South Australia have had to offer it since 1 July 2026, and Victoria’s version, the Midday Power Saver, started on 1 October 2026. You opt in through your retailer, you need a smart meter, and up to 24 kWh a day is free during the window.
11 am to 2 pm in New South Wales, Queensland and Victoria, and 12 pm to 3 pm in South Australia, every day of the year in local time. Some market plans give four free hours, usually 11 am to 3 pm. Power Saver lets you set whichever window your plan uses.
The ones that use the most energy per run and can wait: an EV charger, a clothes dryer, a pool pump, the dishwasher and the washing machine. Pre-cooling or pre-heating with the air conditioner, and running the oven or a dehumidifier, count too. The app sorts your appliances by estimated saving per run so the biggest wins are obvious, and tells you the latest time to start each one so it finishes inside the window.
No solar, yes smart meter. The free hours exist because the grid has more solar than it can use in the middle of the day, so any household with a smart meter can take the plan, renters included. If you do have rooftop solar, our OnSun app times appliances to your own roof’s forecast instead.
Only if you move enough usage into the window. Regulated Solar Sharer plans charge more for supply and for evening power, and independent analysis puts the break-even at around 6 kWh a day shifted into the free hours. Compare plans on Energy Made Easy or Victorian Energy Compare, then use Power Saver: Solar Sharer App to do the shifting. The app shows an estimate of what each run saves at your rate.
It is free, with no subscription and no account. In this release nothing you enter leaves your phone: no analytics, no tracking and no data sent to us. The only web request the app makes downloads the official star-label images, and the privacy policy describes it.
No. Power Saver: Solar Sharer App is an independent app from Vireo Energy Pty Ltd. “Solar Sharer” in its name describes the offer it is built for. The app is not part of that offer and is not approved by the Australian Government or any retailer.

Coming soon for iPhone and Android

Power Saver: Solar Sharer App is free. Set your window, add your appliances, and the first reminder arrives when the window opens.

App Store: coming soon Google Play: coming soon

Have rooftop solar? OnSun times your appliances to your own roof’s forecast.