Australia’s biggest renewables lobby group has admitted the industry needs to do more to win support for wind and solar projects in regional areas and must be more pragmatic about the role of gas in the energy transition if it is to retain credibility.

The admissions by the Clean Energy Council, detailed in a letter to members seen by The Australian Financial Review, are part of a broader reset of the group’s strategy agreed at a two-day meeting of the board and senior management following Labor’s landslide election win.