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About the document

The Australian Government's Renewable Energy Target (RET) has been established to encourage additional generation of electricity from renewable energy sources. The RET scheme:

• places a legal liability on wholesale purchasers of electricity to proportionally contribute to an additional 45,000 gigawatt hours (GWh) of renewable energy per year by 2020.
• sets the framework for both the supply and demand of renewable energy certificates (RECs) via a REC market.