PM announces national clean energy target
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Mr Howard says he plans to consult state and territory leaders immediately. (File photo) (AAP: Dean Lewins)
Prime Minister John Howard has announced a new national clean energy target requiring that 30,000 gigawatt hours per year come from low emission sources by 2020.
Those sources include renewable energy, as well as fossil-fuel power generation which uses carbon capture storage.
The national scheme is designed to replace the individual state and territory schemes.
Mr Howard says he plans to consult state and territory leaders immediately.
"The great virtue of this is it will establish a single national target and over the past few years the states have regularly called on the Commonwealth to have a single national scheme," he said.
"And therefore in announcing this today, the states are really being invited to support something that they have called for."
Environment Minister Malcolm Turnbull says the new target will drive further investment in the renewable energy sector as the emissions trading scheme is introduced.
"By the time this target is established, by 2020 and of course the years that follow, the emissons trading scheme itself will be having an impact," he said.
"So we will see both from this target and from the emissions trading scheme, and enormous amount of impetus behind clean energy sources right through Australia."
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