Guardian: Britain’s renewable energy policies are in a mess. Last year the government “obligated” power companies to make 6.7% of their electricity renewable; the industry could manage only 4.7%. We lag ever further behind Germany, Denmark and many others. Something had to be done. And this time, just maybe, the government is serious with its new consultation document on renewables, published today. There are plenty of reasons to be cynical. Twenty years ago Chris Patten, the then …