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MEDIA RELEASE
16 August 2009
CEC welcomes move to enable swift passage of the RET
NATIONAL:
Australia's clean energy industry welcomes the Rudd Government's plan to enable
the swift passage of its renewable energy targets (RET) bill.
Clean Energy Council chief executive Matthew Warren called on all political parties to support
the proposal which effectively decouples the RET bill from the CPRS, and so allowing it to pass
this week in Parliament.
"We welcome this important step towards delivering the RET bill by the end of the week," Mr
Warren said. "We need the RET passed in three days, not three months."
Mr Warren said an expanded renewable energy target had the overwhelming support of the
Australian public, and together with energy efficiency measures, would unleash $28 billion
worth of new investment and 28,000 new clean jobs over the next decade.
"Today's announcement means that the RET can and should now be passed by Parliament this
week. The only thing that can stand in its way is political point scoring and gamesmanship."
The CEC will continue to push for amendments to ensure the government's promised target of
45,000 GWh of clean energy by 2020 is reached, by ensuring all "phantom" renewable energy
certificates created by the proposed solar credits scheme to assist household installation of PV
panels, are reintroduced into the target.
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The Clean Energy Council, the peak body for the clean energy sector, is working with all Australian
governments to ensure a secure and diversified energy sector; a reduction in energy waste including the
take up of solar water heating and insulation and more clean energy sources in our stationary energy mix
from solar, wind, geothermal, hydro, wave, bioenergy and gas.
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