Wind farm projects will have another chance to bid to supply Canberra with renewable energy.
The ACT government on Wednesday announced a second reverse wind auction, enabling projects to secure supply contracts, to be held before the end of the year.
It follows a similar auction earlier this year which approved three wind farms - two in Victoria and one in South Australia - to supply about a third of Canberra's energy needs.
Successful bidders are guaranteed a feed-in tariff for electricity over 20 years.
ACT Environment Minister Simon Corbell told a clean energy summit that states and territories could not rely on the federal government for ambitious renewable policies.
He said 65 per cent of the ACT's energy would come from renewables in less than two years and the territory is aiming for 90 per cent by 2020.
Mr Corbell called on other state and territory governments to push their own renewable policies, saying more had to be done if Australia was going to play a role in meeting the international target of limiting global warming to two degrees.
"States and territories can and must play ... a critical role," he told the summit in Sydney on Wednesday.
He also called on the ALP to adopt a policy of 50 per cent carbon emission reductions by 2030 and a 50 per cent renewable energy target in the same year.
The party will debate its climate platform at its conference next month.
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