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Energy Insiders - a RenewEconomy Podcast

Join RenewEconomy founder and editor Giles Parkinson and columnist and energy markets expert David Leitch as they discuss the week's main events - politics, solar and storage.

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Why Tasmania wants to be battery of the nation

Why Tasmania wants to be battery of the nation

Hydro Tasmania CEO Stephen Davy on plans to become the “battery of the nation”, and to help out Victoria when its brown ... Read more

3 Dec 2019

47mins

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How wind, solar and storage will beat coal

How wind, solar and storage will beat coal

Windlab explains why world-first wind plus solar plus storage facility in Queensland will beat coal, and why NEG is so d... Read more

27 Oct 2017

30mins

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Smart Energy and the first year of the Tesla big battery

Smart Energy and the first year of the Tesla big battery

An interview with Neoen on the performance of the Tesla big battery at Hornsdale in its first year, and Australia’s $20 ... Read more

11 Dec 2018

38mins

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World’s biggest solar farm, and biggest battery

World’s biggest solar farm, and biggest battery

In a week of “world’s biggest projects”, billionaires Mike Cannon Brookes and Twiggy Forrest back huge project in Northe... Read more

22 Nov 2019

26mins

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Lily D’Ambrosio and the big solar deal

Lily D’Ambrosio and the big solar deal

Victoria energy minister Lily D’Ambrosio talks about the state’s big rooftop solar initiative; David Leitch accuses Rod ... Read more

20 Aug 2018

38mins

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CEFC on NEG, battery storage and returns

CEFC on NEG, battery storage and returns

CEFC boss Ian Learmonth joins Energy Insiders to discuss the NEG, the new Lincoln Gap wind farm with battery storage, an... Read more

13 Nov 2017

32mins

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The future of EVs

The future of EVs

What future do EVs have in Australia? We talk to independent Senator Tim Storer, who is to chair Australia’s first parli... Read more

3 Jul 2018

32mins

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Blockchain for energy: Good or bad?

Blockchain for energy: Good or bad?

In Victoria 200 dairy farms are being invited to join a “virtual” mini grid powered by blockchain technology and their o... Read more

1 May 2018

32mins

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How Texas managed influx of renewables

How Texas managed influx of renewables

Warren Lasher, head of system planning at the ERCOT grid in Texas, joins Energy Insiders to explain how that state is ma... Read more

16 Dec 2018

47mins

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ERM Power CEO Jon Stretch

ERM Power CEO Jon Stretch

ERM Power CEO Jon Stretch on the NEG, "solar firming" contracts, his LGC strategy and the shift to renewables.

14 May 2018

32mins

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How to design a market for high renewables grid

How to design a market for high renewables grid

Australia needs a new market design to cater for shift to high share of renewables. Energy Transition’s Eric Gimon has s... Read more

27 Feb 2020

34mins

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Origin’s Greg Jarvis on why renewables are cheaper than coal

Origin’s Greg Jarvis on why renewables are cheaper than coal

Origin’s Greg Jarvis on why renewables are cheaper than coal, why baseload is thing of the past, and why its looking at ... Read more

2 Oct 2018

39mins

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Two paths towards 100% renewables

Two paths towards 100% renewables

Windlab’s David Osmond looks ate transmission and storage needs for high renewables grid, while ANU’s Bjorn Sturmberg fo... Read more

6 Mar 2020

51mins

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Battery storage subsidies and SA energy minister Dan van Holst Pellekaan

Battery storage subsidies and SA energy minister Dan van Holst Pellekaan

SA energy minister Dan van Holst Pellekaan talks about his visit to Angus Taylor, and the South Australia subsidies for ... Read more

11 Sep 2018

24mins

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Debunking anti-renewable myths and "fair dinkum" power

Debunking anti-renewable myths and "fair dinkum" power

Simon Holmes à Court from the Energy Transition Hub spends much of his time challenging anti-renewable myths, and those ... Read more

25 Sep 2018

39mins

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Dispatchable solar: Just add water

Dispatchable solar: Just add water

Genex executive director Simon Kidston on the world-leading solar and pumped hydro storage plant planned for an old gold... Read more

4 Jun 2018

31mins

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CEC on the spot over NEG

CEC on the spot over NEG

Kane Thornton on the CEC’s qualified support for the NEG, and the new connection hurdles threatening major wind and sola... Read more

30 Jul 2018

33mins

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Ivor Frischknecht and the transition to 100% renewables

Ivor Frischknecht and the transition to 100% renewables

Former ARENA CEO Ivor Frischknecht joins Energy Insiders to provide some fascinating insights into the politics of energ... Read more

20 Nov 2018

40mins

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Game of Tone’s - Winter is Coming

Game of Tone’s - Winter is Coming

The remarkable predictions of the Energy Security Board - death to wind, solar and big batteries. Plus, fear and loathin... Read more

6 Aug 2018

36mins

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EVs, transport emissions and the overwhelming case for renewables

EVs, transport emissions and the overwhelming case for renewables

Interview with Greg Bourne on Climate Council’s report on transport emissions, and Deloitte’s John O’Brien on the overwh... Read more

17 Sep 2018

38mins

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