Energy Insiders - a RenewEconomy Podcast
345 episodes - English - Latest episode: 7 days ago - ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsJoin 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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Energy Insiders 11 December 2019
December 12, 2019 03:17 - 51 minutes - 94.7 MBNetwork owners were once seen as the villains for over-charging on local networks, but they are pretty happy about being asked to build new links to capture wind and solar resources.
Why networks really like wind and solar
December 12, 2019 03:17 - 51 minutes - 94.7 MBNetwork owners were once seen as the villains for over-charging on local networks, but they are pretty happy about being asked to build new links to capture wind and solar resources.
Why Tasmania wants to be battery of the nation
December 03, 2019 02:04 - 47 minutes - 86.5 MBHydro Tasmania CEO Stephen Davy on plans to become the “battery of the nation”, and to help out Victoria when its brown coal generators stop production.
Australia should be world leader in “base-cost” renewables
November 26, 2019 23:48 - 42 minutes - 77.2 MBBloombergNEF founder Michael Liebreich on his horror of Australia’s bushfires, government indifference, and the huge opportunities for Australia in leading the world in “base-cost” renewables.
World’s biggest solar farm, and biggest battery
November 22, 2019 01:26 - 26 minutes - 48.8 MBIn a week of “world’s biggest projects”, billionaires Mike Cannon Brookes and Twiggy Forrest back huge project in Northern Territory, while Tesla big battery in South Australia gets an upgrade.
Carbon price takes toll on coal generators in Europe
November 13, 2019 23:29 - 40 minutes - 75 MBThe rising carbon price is starting to have a real impact on coal generation in Europe, with coal output down sharply this year. Analyst Gerard Wynn paints the picture.
Energy Insiders Podcast: Australia's electricity future with Professor Ross Garnaut
November 06, 2019 02:59 - 42 minutes - 77.5 MBAustralia's electricity future with leading economist and climate change policy expert Professor Ross Garnaut
Ross Garnaut and why Australia can be a renewable superpower
November 06, 2019 02:59 - 42 minutes - 77.5 MBAustralia's electricity future with leading economist and climate change policy expert Professor Ross Garnaut
Energy Insiders Podcast: Ross Garnaut and why Australia can be a renewable superpower
November 06, 2019 02:59 - 42 minutes - 77.5 MBAustralia's electricity future with leading economist and climate change policy expert Professor Ross Garnaut
CleanCo pumps up for Queensland duck curve
October 29, 2019 22:18 - 35 minutes - 65.4 MBCleanCo chair Jacqui Walters discusses plans and strategies as Queensland’s newest generation company prepares to enter the market this week.
Where will CEFC spend its remaining billions?
October 25, 2019 01:01 - 38 minutes - 70.3 MBCEO Ian Learmonth discusses the Clean Energy Finance Corp’s investment strategy, and which technologies and sectors will be targeted from now.
Australia’s future grid? You decide
October 18, 2019 02:12 - 40 minutes - 73.3 MBOliver Woldring and Jose Zapata from ITP Renewables discuss OpenCem, which allows people to model their own energy transition. Plus: AEMC’s new rules.
100% renewables? Let’s do 700% renewables!
October 08, 2019 03:30 - 48 minutes - 89 MBARENA chief executive Darren Miller discusses potential of renewable hydrogen if it can replace the LNG market, and the transition to a decentralised, democratised and consumer-focused grid.
View from China: Climate and carbon markets
October 04, 2019 04:40 - 32 minutes - 60.2 MBBeijing-based Stian Reklev joins Energy Insiders to provide the view from China on climate, coal and carbon markets, and why progress is slow. Plus, the regulatory problems in Australia.
Is this the end of the wind and solar boom?
September 25, 2019 05:04 - 33 minutes - 60.9 MB20 big investors warn that new wind and solar projects won’t go ahead without changes to marginal loss factors process. Group chairman Rob Grant explains why. Plus: Coal in decline, but COAG is back.
Let’s not forget climate science
September 12, 2019 05:33 - 40 minutes - 74.1 MBProfessor Brendan Mackey, a lead IPCC author, with the latest update on climate science.
It’s all about dispatchability
September 06, 2019 03:00 - 39 minutes - 71.9 MBNexif founder CEO Matthew Bartley on leasing South Australia’s back up generators, doubling the size of Lincoln Gap wind farm and adding battery storage. Plus, those negative prices.
Humans are too slow for wind, solar and batteries
August 29, 2019 01:30 - 34 minutes - 63.8 MBSusan Kennedy is the former chief of staff to California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. Now the two have teamed up to offer artificial intelligence and machine learning to integrated wind, solar and storage.
On the road to a decarbonised grid
August 21, 2019 01:08 - 34 minutes - 62.3 MBTransgrid’s Andrew Kingsmill on thinking big and renewable energy zones, and AEMO’s long term modelling to decarbonise the grid.
Alinta’s vision of a rapid transition to clean energy
August 12, 2019 01:03 - 35 minutes - 65.1 MBAlinta CEO Jeff Dimery on record profits, record low prices for wind energy, the economics of battery storage and the early exit of coal generators.
Snowy Hydro in the spotlight
August 09, 2019 00:39 - 37 minutes - 68.2 MBSnowy Hydro’s Gordon Wymer goes into the fine details of the proposed Snowy 2.0 pumped hydro scheme. Plus. The regulator’s power play on wind farms.
Coalition’s revenge on RET, Labor’s solar stumble
August 01, 2019 13:53 - 30 minutes - 56 MBThe big talking point at Clean Energy Summit was the absence of the Coalition government and the lack of network planning. Meanwhile, Lily D’Ambrosio defends solar rebate.
Does demand response spell the end for dirty peakers?
July 26, 2019 00:19 - 33 minutes - 61.9 MBNearly two decades after it was first proposed, demand response is to finally become a part of Australia’s electricity market. Craig Memery, from PIAC explains. Plus: Queensland finally delivers.
Behind Northern Territory’s 10GW solar plans
July 17, 2019 00:31 - 36 minutes - 67.1 MBEytan Lenko, chair of Beyond Zero Emissions, explains why governments, suppliers, developers, and financiers are getting behind proposals for the world’s biggest solar project in the N.T.
Where to now for battery storage?
July 11, 2019 05:34 - 35 minutes - 65.4 MBAustralia now has half a dozen large batteries operating or nearing completion on the grid. Where to now? We talk to Fluence business development head Jaad Cabbabe.
An audience with the Rottnest wind turbine
June 25, 2019 23:56 - 16 minutes - 29.4 MBRottnest wind turbine stands alone but it’s influence goes far beyond Perth’s holiday playground. It turned Tony Abbott against wind energy. We find out why.
Mining industry turns to wind, solar, batteries and hydrogen
June 21, 2019 01:59 - 54 minutes - 99.1 MBThe mining industry is going green - at least in its electricity supply. A special “live” podcast from the Energy and Mines conference in Perth.
The good and bad from Australia’s big grid
June 13, 2019 00:54 - 48 minutes - 88.9 MBWe look at the generator report card on how the grid is dealing with the present and shaping for the future. Plus: Lights out at Loy Yang A unit, while AGL looks to the future with telcos.
Oliver Yates and what the public doesn't know
June 07, 2019 05:33 - 40 minutes - 75.1 MBFormer CEFC boss Oliver Yates talks about lessons from his recent Kooyong campaign and why the renewables sector needs to get its messaging right.
Energy Insiders: Shuffling jokers as sea levels rise
May 28, 2019 04:34 - 41 minutes - 76.7 MBMorrison shuffles cards, and sea level expert John Englander explains why oceans are rising more quickly than expected
What’s the future for renewables in Australia?
May 21, 2019 00:46 - 30 minutes - 42 MBIs Australia’s clean energy transition about to come to a crashing halt, or just hit a pause as the Coalition turns focus to coal? Clean Energy Council’s Kane Thornton discusses Morrison’s big win.
Australia goes to the polls
May 15, 2019 05:20 - 31 minutes - 42.9 MBPeter Lewis from Essential Media on the likely outcomes in Saturday’s federal election, the role of climate and energy policy and the rise of the independents.
Australia’s place in the global solar market
May 10, 2019 04:44 - 35 minutes - 49.1 MBIvan Higuearas, the international head of Gransolar, discusses why Australia is a global solar hot-spot, if we get the rules and policies right, and some interesting ideas about battery storage.
Have regulators gone too far on "system strength”?
May 02, 2019 03:10 - 39 minutes - 54.1 MBPower systems expert Bruce Miller questions why new wind and solar plants are required to install synchronous condensers, and questions other regulatory thinking about frequency and voltage.
Renew Estate’s very big storage play
April 24, 2019 02:45 - 37 minutes - 51.7 MBFresh from its landmark deal on the Bomen solar farm, Renew Estate has filed a development application for a huge solar farm and battery in NSW.
How to electrify the world with renewables
April 17, 2019 01:31 - 38 minutes - 52.3 MBChristian Breyer from LUT University discusses the newly released study that shows if Paris targets are to be met, everything needs to be electrified and powered by renewables.
Butler says Labor will move quickly on climate and energy
April 11, 2019 03:47 - 29 minutes - 39.8 MBMark Butler outlines his plans should Labor win government. Plus, we look at Snowy 2.0 costs and the failed Port Augusta solar tower project.
Pilbara wind and solar will be cheapest power in Asia
April 05, 2019 03:22 - 34 minutes - 47 MBCWP Renewables chair Alex Hewitt to discuss the need to accelerate policy, the wind, solar and battery project in NSW, and the giant Pilbara wind and solar plans.
Coalition’s coal reality check, and Shell’s big electric plans
March 27, 2019 04:49 - 39 minutes - 54.2 MBWe look at the outcomes of the NSW election and the federal Coaliton’s shortlist, and we are joined by Brian Davis, the head of Shell’s new energy solutions business.
EnergyAustralia explains why wind and solar will be “bedrock" of Australia’s grid
March 20, 2019 02:29 - 48 minutes - 66.9 MBEnergyAustralia’s Mark Collette explains why wind and solar will replace coal as the “bedrock” of Australia’s electricity grid.
Why pulling down polls and wires is a good idea
March 14, 2019 03:30 - 45 minutes - 62.7 MBHorizon Power’s Mark Paterson explains why replacing poles and wires with solar and batteries is a world first, and a great idea. Plus: The RBA intervenes on climate, and Snowy’s modelling.
Coalition’s fake news on climate and energy
March 06, 2019 01:17 - 35 minutes - 48.3 MBClimate Council’s Greg Bourne on why scientists and researchers are so outraged by Coalition givernment’s fake claims on emissions.
Simec Energy and ScoMo’s big hydro pump
February 27, 2019 23:38 - 41 minutes - 56.4 MBSimec Energy’s Marc Barrington on the Gupta company’s plans for clean energy, the PUB battery at Port Augusta, and trying to make sense of the Coalition energy policy.
100 per cent renewables: Is California dreaming?
February 20, 2019 05:37 - 35 minutes - 48.2 MBAngelina Galiteva, vice chair of the California Independent System Operator, talks about that state’s 100 per cent renewable energy target, and how it will get there.
AGL CEO Brett Redman on Australia’s “massive” energy transition
February 14, 2019 22:34 - 41 minutes - 57.6 MBBrett Redman, the head of AGL and operator of Australia’s biggest coal generation fleet says Australia is in the midst of a “massive” energy transition, and explains how he hopes to navigate his way through.
50% renewables: Too much, too soon? Or too slow?
February 06, 2019 02:32 - 35 minutes - 48.7 MBEnergy expert Nicky Ison joins the podcast to discuss renewables energy targets, the NSW policy vacuum, the need for more transmission and delivering solar to those who need it.
Oliver Yates takes on Josh Frydenberg
January 29, 2019 23:44 - 30 minutes - 56.2 MBEnergy Insiders returns with an interview with former CEFC boss Oliver Yates, now challenging Josh Frydenberg in the “Menzies” seat of Kooyong, and a wrap of recent events.
How Texas managed influx of renewables
December 16, 2018 23:10 - 47 minutes - 86.6 MBWarren Lasher, head of system planning at the ERCOT grid in Texas, joins Energy Insiders to explain how that state is managing the huge influx of renewables - and a final wrap for the year.
Smart Energy and the first year of the Tesla big battery
December 11, 2018 01:45 - 38 minutes - 71 MBAn interview with Neoen on the performance of the Tesla big battery at Hornsdale in its first year, and Australia’s $20 billion wind and solar boom.
Mark Butler on Labor’s energy and climate policy
December 03, 2018 01:22 - 40 minutes - 75 MBMark Butler explains the details of Labor’s energy and climate policy, and how to reach 50% renewables and 45% emission reduction cuts by 2030.