The Greens would push to bring more than 1000 renewable energy jobs to Canberra and transform it into a "research hub" for clean energy, should they find themselves in a powerful bargaining position after the federal election.
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The party's renewable energy plan for Canberra, dubbed Renew Canberra, was launched on Thursday, the same day as the Greens' Eden-Monaro campaign kicked off.
The local plan is largely an extension of the Greens' federal blueprint for renewable energy, much of which has already been announced.
The Turnbull government has a renewable energy target of 23 per cent by 2020, not having settled on a post-2020 target, while Labor is aiming for 50 per cent by 2030, and the Greens 90 per cent by 2030.
Greens Senate candidate Christina Hobbs on Thursday spelled out how her party's shift to renewable energy would benefit Canberra.
A $500 million government authority, dubbed RenewAustralia, would be created to invest $5 billion in new clean energy generation across the country, while $847.9 million would be put towards research jobs, including at the Canberra-based Australia Research Council.
University research would be boosted by $1.3 billion, significant amounts of which would go to ACT institutions.
That would seek to position the ACT as the research hub for clean energy advancement.
But the ability of the Greens being able to deliver on any of those proposals rests on whether they can achieve a position of power at the federal election, either as a kingmaker, or by holding a balance of power in the senate.
"If there was a situation where there was some form of power sharing between the Greens and Labor, the Greens would see transitioning our economy to a renewable energy-powered future as one of the key policies that we would like implemented," Ms Hobbs said.
Ms Hobbs said a shift to renewable energy would diversify the Canberra economy, and help reduce the wider impact of public sector job cuts.
"This new Greens policy would create more than 1000 new jobs for Canberra, hundreds of jobs in a new government agency, and then we would expect hundreds of jobs in new research," she said.
"We'd see an increase in the number of small businesses and tradespeople engaged with renewable energy, but also that huge brainpower coming to Canberra to really become the research hub."
