'This year is critical' - Clean Energy Council boss

Australia risks not hitting its 2020
renewable energy target.

Australia risks not hitting its 2020 renewable energy target with analysts now forecasting that interim goals will be missed – a situation that will trigger penalties that households will have to pay.

Many in the energy industry agree that this year will be "make or break" for achieving the end-of-decade target, which aims to deliver about 23 per cent of Australia's electricity from clean technologies such as wind and solar.

"This year is critical" said Kane Thornton, who heads the Clean Energy Council.

Read Tom Arup’s story in the Melbourne Age - “Australia risks missing clean power goals, with households to pick up the bill.”