Original article by Thomas HenryElizabeth Pike
The Australian – Page: 6 : 9-Apr-26

Energy Minister Chris Bowen has rejected suggestions that the federal government is no longer committed to its 2030 target of generating 82 per cent of the nation’s electricity via renewables. He stated in Sydney yesterday that the 2030 renewables target is still government policy, despite the fact that explicit references to it have been removed from Labor’s draft national policy platform for the next federal election. Bowen added that this omission does not mean that Labor has conceded that it may fall short of the target. Saul Kavonic from MST Financial expects the 82 per cent renewables target to be downgraded to an "ambition" by 2028, given that the operating life of the Eraring coal-fired power station has been extended by two years.

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