Australia Urged to Stick With Renewable Energy Policy

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Australia’s renewable energy target should be retained in its current form to avoid undermining investors’ confidence in wind, solar and geothermal power, according to the government’s adviser on climate change.

Australia should stick by its target to get 41,000 gigawatt hours of electricity from renewable sources by 2020, the Climate Change Authority said today in a preliminary review of the policy before its final report due in December.