Energy Minister Chris Bowen has been chastised for "profound ignorance" after he appeared to walk back remarks about the scale of Australia’s renewables rollout.

It came after conservation group Rainforest Reserves Australia accused Mr Bowen of misrepresenting data published in The Australian, which mapped the accelerating renewables rollout.

In the RRA’s comprehensive mapping of renewable projects , which vice-president Steven Nowakowski said had taken four years to collate, the group highlighted the sheer scale of the Albanese government’s plan.

The RRA showed 1000 projects costing $1.33 trillion, including 25,000 additional wind towers with 45,000km of associated roads, as well as 250 million solar panels on 406,000ha.

Mr Bowen ridiculed the RRA in a social media video, branding t

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