The wind industry generated over half of the electricity consumed in South Australia on Wednesday and contributed record levels of power - over 85 per cent of the overall power generated - during Monday’s off-peak hours, said the Clean Energy Council of Australia. Wind turbines and the roof-top solar panels that are on about a fifth of South Australian homes have put the state well ahead of the federal government’s target of having 20 per cent of electricity from renewable sources. Last year, wind farms produced over 24 per cent of the state’s electricity.
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