Gone with the wind

How an infatuation with green energy made a good government look foolish

As the polls closed in Muswellbrook an hour before sunset on Saturday, Liddell Power Station, 20km away, was running at full tilt. At 6pm it was generating around 12 per cent of the state’s electricity. Wind turbines were contributing 9 per cent and hydro 6 per cent. Solar panels and batteries were contributing nothing at all.

Keeping the beer chilled wh…