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Govt backflips on clean energy targets

For years, the Federal Government had specifically ruled out the idea of increasing renewable energy targets, but now it's had a change of heart. Under a new plan, announced by the Prime Minister, fifteen per cent of electricity generated across the country will have to come from wind, solar or clean coal, by 2020. Energy producers are supportive, but green groups say it's too little and the states are unimpressed.

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