Vic pushing on with own RET: Andrews

Victoria has not given up on setting its own Renewable Energy Target.

The task will be complicated by Commonwealth legislation, and opposition from the Abbott government and federal Labor. But Premier Daniel Andrews says it is still possible for Victoria to set a stand-alone RET.

The Victorian government would unveil before the year's end a package of measures to boost Victoria's renewable energy sector and demand for "clean" energy, he said.

"We're doing a power of work to look at ways in which we can encourage more clean energy in our state, and the jobs that come with it," Mr Andrews said on Wednesday.

"Everything ranging from the way the government purchases energy, who it purchases from, investment opportunities, grants that we might make, partnerships we might form."

Renewables account for about 12 per cent of Victorian energy generation and Mr Andrews wants a "much higher number".

The premier was at Ararat, at the site that will become Australia's third-largest wind farm, with 70 turbines generating enough power for about 123,000 households from 2017.

"Tony Abbott thinks wind farms are ugly - but there's nothing ugly about a clean environment and there's nothing ugly about hundreds of new Victorian jobs," Mr Andrews told reporters.

The visit came as the coalition defended banning Clean Energy Finance Corporation funding for wind farms and roof-top solar projects, saying the $10 billion body should focus on emerging technologies.

In June, federal Labor sided with the Abbott government to defeat a Greens amendment in the senate that would have allowed the states to set their own RET.