The world's largest solar power station - a massive 2 gigawatts - will be built in China thanks to the Chinese adoption of a renewable energy feed-in tariff, it was announced overnight.

The Rudd Government has repeatedly refused to embrace the feed-in tariff Private Member's Bill introduced by Australian Greens Deputy Leader, Senator Christine Milne. The Government claims its policies are sufficient, even though all the evidence points to a stagnating renewable energy sector in Australia.

"Australia is the sunny country and the clever country, but Mr Rudd and Senator Wong want us to remain coal country," Senator Milne said.

"The gross feed-in tariff, which guarantees a fair market for renewable energy, is delivering gigawatts of zero emissions power and hundreds of thousands of jobs around the world, but in Australia the Government prefers photo ops to real policy."

The massive 2 gigawatt solar power station announced overnight in China will be built by US company, First Solar. First Solar's CEO, Mike Ahearn said:

"The Chinese feed-in tariff will be critical to this project.

"This type of forward-looking government policy is necessary to create a strong solar market and facilitate the construction of a project of this size, which in turn continues to drive the cost of solar electricity closer to `grid parity` - where it is competitive with traditional energy sources."

Senator Milne said "I couldn't have put it better myself.

"The Rudd Government recently cut the hugely successful Remote Regional Power Generation Program because it ran out of its allocated funding. Communities in remote parts of Australian keen to clean their air and water by getting off dirty diesel now can't do so.

"The Rudd Government's Solar Flagships program is increasingly being seen by industry as a classic 'Hollow Men' idea without any policy backing. It has been delayed for 18 months and is attracting criticism for being unworkable from the very companies it is supposed to support.

"Embracing the gross feed-in tariff for all renewable energy in Australia would go a long way to making sure we see massive solar developments coming to the sunny country instead of solar innovators going bust or going offshore.

"Why won't Mr Rudd and Senator Wong embrace the feed-in tariff?"

Several States in Australia have introduced Claytons feed-in tariffs which support only net generation from small-scale rooftop solar power. It is critical that a feed-in tariff is national and supports all energy produced from all renewable energy technologies of all sizes.