Energy Insiders - a RenewEconomy Podcast
News
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.
Location:
United States
Genres:
News
Description:
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.
Language:
English
Website:
http://reneweconomy.com.au
Episodes
China, China, China
4/12/2024
China is the dominant force in solar, wind, battery storage and EVs, and the world’s biggest polluter. China expert Lauri Myllyvirta lifts the lid. Plus: Labor’s Made in Australia plan, and lots of storage news.
Duration:00:59:25
Is there a smarter way to transmit power?
4/4/2024
TS Conductor CEO Jason Huang on reducing line losses for renewables and storage. Plus: All the news of the week.
Duration:00:41:30
Managing solar ducks in the middle of Australia
3/27/2024
Can Alice Springs switch off fossil fuels in the middle of the day? Lyndon Frearson from Ekistica on the options and lessons for the NEM. Plus: Eraring and NVES.
Duration:01:02:54
Would you trust your utility to control your solar?
3/20/2024
Monash Uni’s Yolande Strengers and Kari Dahlgren on one of the big challenges of the energy transition - trust. Plus, all the news of the week in this nuclear free podcast.
Duration:00:54:20
Australia’s biggest smelters flick switch to wind and solar
3/13/2024
Rio Tinto’s Vik Selvaraja on why Australia’s biggest smelters - and biggest single energy consumers - are choosing wind and solar. Plus: Coalition’s nuclear nonsense.
Duration:00:50:41
The push for coal to play off the bench
2/29/2024
EnergyAustralia CEO Mark Collette on coal as a reserve asset, the uncertainty of Yallourn, the challenge of green hydrogen, and just managing the transition.
Duration:00:50:30
The boom in wind energy
2/21/2024
GE global wind boss Steve Swift on landmark supply deal with Andrew Forrest. Plus: Rio Tinto plans Australia’s biggest wind farm to power smelters. And Littleproud’s Barnaby moment.
Duration:00:53:20
Podcast special: How to make offshore wind work in Australia
2/19/2024
We talk to three industry experts on offshore wind as part of the Locking in the Green Energy Transition podcast series sponsored by Norton Rose Fulbright.
Duration:01:07:37
The battery domino effect
2/13/2024
Daan Walter from RMI on the phenomenal growth of battery storage. Plus: Victoria blackouts, Eraring, and the rabble against renewables.
Duration:01:04:04
Renewable energy barriers and curtailment
2/6/2024
Dylan McConnell discusses the benefits of the Capacity Investment Scheme, its impact on prices and how the market should pay for spilled energy.
Duration:00:39:26
The climate crisis and the energy transition
1/23/2024
Berkeley Earth’s Robert Rohde discusses the latest climate science and whether even 2°C is achievable. Plus: All the renewable and storage news from the first few weeks of 2024.
Duration:00:53:02
AEMO’s blueprint for wind, solar and storage
12/19/2023
AEMO’s head of system design Merryn York on the draft 2024 Integrated System Plan. Plus: The big NSW tender, and battery storage everywhere. And a few tips for 2024.
Duration:01:00:12
Will Chris Bowen’s capacity scheme actually work?
12/14/2023
Baringa’s Anne Bailey talks about the Capacity Investment Mechanism and what’s needed to make it work. Plus: AEMO’s 2024 ISP, the COP28 results, and energy ministers and coal plants.
Duration:00:45:38
Victoria’s SEC and its first big battery play
12/7/2023
Vic SEC boss Chris Miller on the state-owned corporation’s first big battery play, and what’s next. Plus: All the news of the week.
Duration:00:46:14
Macquarie marches in to Australian renewables
11/30/2023
Macquarie marches in to Australian renewables by RenewEconomy
Duration:00:56:24
AI, inverters and a smarter grid
11/28/2023
Kate Muller from Norton Rose Fulbright talks with Habitat’s Ben Irons and colleague Nick Abrahams on the role AI will play in a grid making switch from spinning machines to inverter-based tech.
Duration:00:46:58
Bowen's capacity scheme, and NSW's "free" batteries
11/23/2023
Brad Hopkins, from AEMO Services, discusses the successful battery storage tender in NSW that could serve as a blueprint for Chris Bowen's massive 32 GW capacity scheme.
Duration:00:46:54
State of confusion
11/16/2023
Confusing new wind guidelines in NSW as coal state runs short of spinning machines. Plus: Origin battle intensifies as Tesla throws down energy gauntlet
Duration:00:32:04
Wind, solar, batteries and pumps
11/9/2023
Genex is succeeding where others feared to tread, with a new big battery, the first pumped hydro project in four decades, and massive wind, solar and storage plans. CEO Craig Francis explains how.
Duration:00:38:46
The end of spinning machines
10/30/2023
Ivor Frischknecht, now head of Sosteneo, talks about the new battery that signals the end of the need for spinning machines, and a clear path to 100 per cent renewables. Plus: All Energy and Joyce.
Duration:00:50:23