The battery domino effect
Daan Walter from RMI on the phenomenal growth of battery storage. Plus: Victoria blackouts, Eraring, and the rabble against renewables.
Feb 14, 2024•1 hr 4 min
Energy Insiders - a RenewEconomy Podcast
Join Renew Economy founder and editor-in-chief Giles Parkinson and columnist and energy markets expert David Leitch as they discuss the week's main events - politics, solar and storage.
Episodes
Renewable energy barriers and curtailment
Dylan McConnell discusses the benefits of the Capacity Investment Scheme, its impact on prices and how the market should pay for spilled energy.
Feb 07, 2024•39 min
The climate crisis and the energy transition
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.
Jan 24, 2024•53 min
AEMO’s blueprint for wind, solar and storage
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.
Dec 20, 2023•1 hr
Will Chris Bowen’s capacity scheme actually work?
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.
Dec 15, 2023•46 min
Victoria’s SEC and its first big battery play
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.
Dec 08, 2023•46 min
Macquarie marches in to Australian renewables
Macquarie marches in to Australian renewables by RenewEconomy
Dec 01, 2023•56 min
AI, inverters and a smarter grid
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.
Nov 28, 2023•47 min
Bowen's capacity scheme, and NSW's "free" batteries
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.
Nov 24, 2023•47 min
State of confusion
Confusing new wind guidelines in NSW as coal state runs short of spinning machines. Plus: Origin battle intensifies as Tesla throws down energy gauntlet
Nov 17, 2023•32 min
Wind, solar, batteries and pumps
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.
Nov 10, 2023•39 min
The end of spinning machines
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.
Oct 31, 2023•50 min
South Australia's big move into green hydrogen
State energy minister Tom Koutsantonis discusses green hydrogen plan, filling the "gap" on renewables, transmission, storage and prices.
Oct 23, 2023•42 min
Australia’s methane problem
Methane expert Peter Rayner on Australia’s potent climate problem, and a solution. Plus: Origin’s black hole, Genex deals and big battery bids.
Oct 20, 2023•55 min
Social licence in the regions
We talk to three people in regional Australia dealing with renewable and transmission projects about the issue of social licence. Plus: Brookfield’s big win.
Oct 13, 2023•1 hr
What price Marinus?
We talk to Caroline Wykamp and Prajit Parameswar from Marinus Link. Plus: Spring renewables surge delivers low prices, new records, and a push for more storage.
Oct 06, 2023•51 min
Net Zero by 2035
Katherine Woodthorpe, from the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, on why Australia should fast-track its net zero ambitions. Plus: The nuclear debate and renewable records.
Sep 22, 2023•46 min
The end of baseload in world’s biggest standalone grid
Jai Thomas, the co-ordinator of energy in Western Australia, on that state’s massive renewable plans, the end of baseload, and the rise of big batteries. Plus: News of the week.
Sep 15, 2023•52 min
Coal-keeper or Green-keeper?
NSW energy minister Penny Sharpe discusses Eraring closure, fast tracking renewables and consumer equity: Plus, Marinus blow out and Queensland green hydrogen plans.
Sep 06, 2023•27 min
Locking in the Green Energy Transition
Essential Energy CEO John Cleland says distributed networks can accelerate the switch to renewables. And he discusses cultural change, rooftop solar and EVs.
Sep 05, 2023•43 min
Out with coal, in with EVs
EnergyAustralia boss Mark Collette on how he will make sure the company’s last coal generator will not get in the way of the renewable transition, and why he went electric.
Sep 01, 2023•53 min
Are heat batteries the next big thing?
Tom Geiser from Rondo Energy puts the case for heat batteries and their role in hard to abate sectors. Plus: Coal giants get a taxpayer funded lifeline.
Aug 25, 2023•47 min
Wind, solar and social licence
Behavioural scientist John Pickering on the challenges of getting social licence for wind, solar, battery and transmission projects. Plus: What’s big coal up to?
Aug 16, 2023•56 min
What Australia can learn from Uncle IRA
Energy commentator David Roberts on Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act, partisan politics and some exciting new technologies. Plus: This week’s major news.
Aug 09, 2023•58 min
Australia's biggest agri-solar and battery project
Luke Osborne from Stride Renewables on the happy marriage of farming, solar and battery storage, and why community outreach works.
Aug 04, 2023•49 min
The path to net zero for industry
Anna Skarbek from Cimateworks on why renewables will play central role in getting big industry to net zero. First, the grid. Plus: Big battery boom.
Jul 28, 2023•55 min
Landmark green hydrogen deal with traditional landowners
Pollination’s Rob Grant and Balinggarra’s Cissy Gore-Birch on landmark green hydrogen project around Ord River. Plus: To close or not to close coal.
Jul 18, 2023•49 min
Chris Bowen on climate and renewable targets
Federal climate and energy minister Chris Bowen defends targets as ambitious and achievable, as he prepares to announce Hunter offshore wind zone and roll out capacity mechanism and fuel efficiency standards.
Jul 11, 2023•39 min
Hottest day, hottest week, hottest month
Kimberley Reid from Monash Uni talks about the temperature records being smashed this past week. Plus: Project delays and a new hydrogen strategy.
Jul 07, 2023•39 min
BlackRock’s big play, and 12-hour batteries
BlackRock’s Charlie Reid on the fund manager’s big plans for Australia, and Allegro’s Thomas Nann on the innovative 12-hour flow battery that Origin is trialling.
Jun 30, 2023•49 min