It was only a matter of time before Australia’s ruinous renewable energy policies imploded and implode they just did.

Australia’s power pricing and supply calamity is the inevitable consequence of the so-called ‘transition’ to nature’s wonder fuels. And yet the wind and sun cult and renewable energy rent seekers continue to behave as if the results can be hidden from plain view: avoiding grid collapses is now a daily occurrence, based on what the weather might be doing at the time and where that fiery ball sits in the sky. More on that in an upcoming post.

With retail power prices jumping another 20% or more this year (on top of a 20% hike last year), those with an interest in maintaining Australia’s wealth and prosperity have hit the panic button.

The beginning of the end for heavily subsidised and chaotically intermittent wind and solar came in the form…