5 May 2021 You can imagine the confusion among The Australian’s editorial writers. Surely, they must have asked themselves, the coal lobby isn’t suggesting that coal generators get paid for electricity that they don’t actually produce? Wouldn’t that be daft! And so it was that in its latest desperate attempt to convince readers that coal generation is good, and should be subsidised, The Australian thundered in its editorial on Tuesday, titled Counting the cost of renewable power: “Capacity payments inevitably involve paying for electricity that is produced but not used, which is wasteful of electricity and greenhouse gas emissions.”