Premier John Brumby made the announcement at a solar test plant at Bridgewater near Bendigo recently reiterating Australia's pledge to wean itself off fossil fuels.

Mr Brumby hopes that solar energy projects such as these will help provide around 5% of Victoria's energy needs by 2020 as the advantages of solar energy become apparent.

The Government has also announced the nation's first feed-in tariff for large scale solar projects, hoping to emulate the success of Germany.

Mr Brumby says the new solar plants will Victoria will create many local jobs in regional Victoria and boost the state's economy and states that he hopes that Victoria will become a leader in solar energy.

"We will be producing in Victoria as much solar as will the rest of Australia under the solar flagships program," he said.

These new measures are part of the Government's climate change white paper on the need for more solar energy projects such as these.

A recently released report says that Victoria does have enough renewable resources to meet all of the state's energy needs so investement is now being pumped in do realise those dreams.

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