Queensland electricity users will continue to cross-subsidise households with rooftop solar systems to the tune of $3 billion over the next decade – $1 billion higher than previously thought – as a result of the Palaszczuk government refusing to scrap the former Bligh government's generous solar bonus scheme.

Despite a scathing report by the Queensland Productivity Commission last week, the Palaszczuk Labor government has refused to close down the scheme which will result in more than 200,000 households paying next to nothing for electricity until 2028.