Energy Insiders - a RenewEconomy Podcast

By RenewEconomy

Listen to a podcast, please open Podcast Republic app. Available on Google Play Store and Apple App Store.

Image by RenewEconomy

Category: News

Open in Apple Podcasts


Open RSS feed


Open Website


Rate for this podcast

Subscribers: 202
Reviews: 0
Episodes: 343

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.

Episode Date
Chris Bowen explains the green energy plan
Apr 26, 2024
The renewable challenge in south-east Asia
Apr 19, 2024
China, China, China
Apr 12, 2024
Is there a smarter way to transmit power?
Apr 05, 2024
Managing solar ducks in the middle of Australia
Mar 27, 2024
Would you trust your utility to control your solar?
Mar 20, 2024
Australia’s biggest smelters flick switch to wind and solar
Mar 13, 2024
The push for coal to play off the bench
Feb 29, 2024
The boom in wind energy
Feb 22, 2024
Podcast special: How to make offshore wind work in Australia
Feb 20, 2024
The battery domino effect
Feb 14, 2024
Renewable energy barriers and curtailment
Feb 07, 2024
The climate crisis and the energy transition
Jan 24, 2024
AEMO’s blueprint for wind, solar and storage
Dec 20, 2023
Will Chris Bowen’s capacity scheme actually work?
Dec 15, 2023
Victoria’s SEC and its first big battery play
Dec 08, 2023
Macquarie marches in to Australian renewables
Dec 01, 2023
AI, inverters and a smarter grid
Nov 28, 2023
Bowen's capacity scheme, and NSW's "free" batteries
Nov 24, 2023
State of confusion
Nov 17, 2023
Wind, solar, batteries and pumps
Nov 10, 2023
The end of spinning machines
Oct 31, 2023
South Australia's big move into green hydrogen
Oct 23, 2023
Australia’s methane problem
Oct 20, 2023
Social licence in the regions
Oct 13, 2023
What price Marinus?
Oct 06, 2023
Net Zero by 2035
Sep 22, 2023
The end of baseload in world’s biggest standalone grid
Sep 15, 2023
Coal-keeper or Green-keeper?
Sep 06, 2023
Locking in the Green Energy Transition
Sep 05, 2023
Out with coal, in with EVs
Sep 01, 2023
Are heat batteries the next big thing?
Aug 25, 2023
Wind, solar and social licence
Aug 16, 2023
What Australia can learn from Uncle IRA
Aug 09, 2023
Australia's biggest agri-solar and battery project
Aug 04, 2023
The path to net zero for industry
Jul 28, 2023
Landmark green hydrogen deal with traditional landowners
Jul 18, 2023
Chris Bowen on climate and renewable targets
Jul 11, 2023
Hottest day, hottest week, hottest month
Jul 07, 2023
BlackRock’s big play, and 12-hour batteries
Jun 30, 2023
Australia’s rise as an electro-state
Jun 23, 2023
From brown coal to big batteries
Jun 16, 2023
Australia’s grid needs a 1.5°C target
Jun 09, 2023
Can NSW quit coal?
Jun 01, 2023
How to connect wind, solar and batteries
May 26, 2023
Are we too focused on big energy?
May 19, 2023
EVs and big batteries on the march
May 12, 2023
Batteries and pumped hydro fight over coal succession plan
May 02, 2023
In love with wind, solar and batteries
Apr 27, 2023
Sims to lead Superpower info war
Apr 21, 2023
Wind and solar deal killer blow to fossil fuels
Apr 13, 2023
Smarter grid means a cleaner grid
Apr 06, 2023
How big will offshore wind be?
Mar 27, 2023
Moving wind and solar through time and space
Mar 23, 2023
What price solar and storage?
Mar 17, 2023
Game changer for networks and renewables
Feb 27, 2023
Will concentrated solar finally have its day in the sun?
Feb 17, 2023
The Australian solar heroes bringing down coal and gas
Feb 10, 2023
Does a green hydrogen power plant stack up?
Feb 03, 2023
Energy Transformed: Amping up - Victoria's energy transition; a crucial 12 months ahead
Jan 31, 2023
Do we have enough lithium?
Jan 27, 2023
Chris Bowen on gas, batteries, EVs, wind and targets
Dec 20, 2022
The road to 100 per cent renewables
Dec 15, 2022
Andrew Forrest’s big Australian power play
Dec 09, 2022
Biden’s tax-driven push for ultra low cost wind and solar
Dec 02, 2022
Australia’s carbon capital has a transition plan
Nov 25, 2022
“Fit for 55”: EU climate package could tax Australia
Nov 18, 2022
Brookfield’s $20 billion green energy plans
Nov 11, 2022
Solar tiles and electric Tuk Tuks
Nov 04, 2022
Ørsted’s big power play in Australia
Oct 27, 2022
Victoria’s big switch to 95 pct renewables
Oct 21, 2022
Storage and the future of the grid
Oct 13, 2022
Cost and scale of renewables
Oct 06, 2022
De Brenni on Queensland flip to renewables
Sep 28, 2022
How to make buildings green and efficient
Sep 22, 2022
Australia will soon treat Co2 as a pollutant
Sep 13, 2022
Climate bill, Snowy and the case for a strategic reserve
Sep 08, 2022
How much storage is needed for 100% renewables?
Sep 01, 2022
Gravity storage and shipping green hydrogen - hype or hope
Aug 26, 2022
Climate and community independents have their sway
Aug 15, 2022
Australia’s dirty fuel scandal
Aug 10, 2022
Why this should be Australia's last energy crisis
Aug 04, 2022
Can offshore wind float in Australia
Jul 25, 2022
Big solar and even bigger batteries
Jul 18, 2022
Wind, solar and storage win transition race
Jul 13, 2022
Federal Climate and Energy Minister Chris Bowen
Jul 06, 2022
Australia's rapid transition to renewables
Jul 01, 2022
Smart technologies, flawed markets
Jun 23, 2022
The energy crisis … and offshore wind
Jun 16, 2022
Energy Transformed Podcast | The Future of Energy Systems: Digital and Data Challenges
Jun 10, 2022
The Future of Energy Systems: Digital and Data Challenges
Jun 10, 2022
How to connect all that wind, solar and storage
Jun 08, 2022
Deep dive into Australia’s coal and gas crisis
Jun 03, 2022
No more coal and gas mines, says Bandt
May 27, 2022
Why Australia risks falling behind on green energy
May 20, 2022
AGL, MCB and smart inverters
May 09, 2022
2°C? It’s already nearly too late
Apr 29, 2022
The lop-sided battle for climate independents
Apr 14, 2022
Can Europe survive without Russia’s gas?
Apr 07, 2022
Fortescue’s grand green energy plans
Mar 21, 2022
Origin’s big shift from baseload
Mar 16, 2022
Victoria's big offshore wind plans
Mar 11, 2022
Snowy Hydro and the missing links
Mar 08, 2022
Mike Cannon-Brookes and closing coal
Feb 24, 2022
EVs and the grid
Feb 17, 2022
EnergyAustralia and the end of coal
Feb 09, 2022
Green transition and greenwash
Feb 04, 2022
Future of green steel and green aluminium
Dec 21, 2021
Vestas head winds up on transition
Dec 16, 2021
Say goodbye to coal
Dec 10, 2021
Hazelwood transition from dirty coal plant to big battery
Dec 02, 2021
The case for pumped hydro
Nov 25, 2021
The green energy transition as seen from Japan
Nov 17, 2021
Energy Transformed: How close is the green economy?
Nov 16, 2021
Australia will pay high price for Morrison’s lack of leadership
Nov 12, 2021
Why batteries could beat pumped hydro on long storage
Nov 05, 2021
Mike Cannon-Brookes on the green energy future
Oct 29, 2021
Grid batteries up for electric buses
Oct 22, 2021
Australia can hit 91 pct renewables in a decade, and keep the lights on
Oct 15, 2021
Alinta’s big Pilbara and offshore wind plays
Oct 08, 2021
Europe’s gas crisis
Oct 01, 2021
Sun Cable, Hornsdale, and social licence
Sep 24, 2021
Energy Transformed: Can batteries take charge of the grid?
Sep 21, 2021
Tasmania has big green plans, can it deliver?
Sep 17, 2021
Pole position: Networks want more battery storage
Sep 10, 2021
Do we want to keep coal, or move on?
Sep 03, 2021
Taylor’s Coalkeeper subsidy, and lessons from US
Aug 27, 2021
Replacing coal with renewables in south-east Asia
Aug 20, 2021
Will IPCC overcome Morrison’s prosperity doctrine?
Aug 13, 2021
Can Australia break its wind and solar investment drought?
Aug 03, 2021
New AEMO boss Daniel Westerman
Jul 29, 2021
How quickly can we got to 100% renewables
Jul 23, 2021
AEMO’s 100pct renewables plan, and the view from Japan
Jul 16, 2021
Batteries accelerating shift to renewables
Jul 09, 2021
Chris Bowen on Labor’s policies, not targets climate pitch
Jul 02, 2021
Why farmers want action on climate
Jun 25, 2021
Green hydrogen in mines
Jun 17, 2021
Australia’s biggest wind farm takes shape
Jun 11, 2021
Shell Australia’s big power play
Jun 03, 2021
A new wind and solar investment drought
May 28, 2021
Why green ammonia could be Australia’s next big export
May 21, 2021
Changing the world with solar, batteries and EVs
May 14, 2021
Why inverters are key to a renewables grid
May 07, 2021
Kerry Schott on the post-2025 market reform
Apr 29, 2021
Solar and wind driving fastest ever energy transition
Apr 26, 2021
Australia’s first offshore wind farm
Apr 15, 2021
The future of batteries, EVs and hydrogen
Apr 08, 2021
AGL’s Brett Redman on the big company split
Mar 31, 2021
Solar tax: AEMC’s Benn Barr on new export rule
Mar 26, 2021
Solar eclipse, and can EVs really provide storage on wheels
Mar 19, 2021
Yallourn, Angus Taylor and the Enegy transition in Newcastle
Mar 11, 2021
Adam Bandt’s climate and energy action plan
Mar 05, 2021
What does Texas mean for Australia’s grid reform?
Feb 26, 2021
Batteries in the street: the new face of storage
Feb 19, 2021
AGL’s survival plan, and AEMO’s new boss
Feb 12, 2021
Can batteries rule the grid?
Feb 03, 2021
Why networks now love solar and battery storage
Jan 28, 2021
Missing link: Can conservatives embrace energy transition?
Dec 23, 2020
How good is green hydrogen?
Dec 18, 2020
How companies and states rescued wind and solar
Dec 04, 2020
EV taxes, big batteries and green hydrogen
Nov 27, 2020
Matt Kean and the NSW energy transition
Nov 18, 2020
Why wind is better value than solar
Nov 13, 2020
CEFC sees “raft” of battery deals, but gas “debatable”
Nov 05, 2020
Can China wean itself off coal?
Oct 29, 2020
Why network companies want to move beyond poles and wires
Oct 21, 2020
Zibelman on why she is leaving, and AEMO’s next steps
Oct 15, 2020
The windy west, and network news
Oct 09, 2020
Zibelman, Schott and the “step change” transition
Oct 02, 2020
Tesla’s battery revolution, CCS, and the climate emergency
Sep 25, 2020
Coalition’s gas plans, changing ARENA into ACCSA, and Battery Day
Sep 18, 2020
Lynham: Our future is renewable energy
Sep 14, 2020
It’s going to be a quick transition, and markets need to change
Sep 03, 2020
The clean energy transition, and how to connect it
Aug 27, 2020
State of inertia and potential for grid-forming inverters
Aug 20, 2020
Garnaut’s Sunshot to renewables future
Aug 14, 2020
Why WA and miners can lead transition to wind and solar
Aug 07, 2020
Angus Taylor tries to bury energy transition under cloak of secrecy
Jul 29, 2020
Solar exports: More sun for everyone
Jul 16, 2020
Digital, distributed and democratic: The new energy future
Jul 10, 2020
Energy minister Matt Kean’s vision for NSW to be renewable superpower
Jun 29, 2020
Electric vehicles: Can the world catch up with Tesla?
Jun 24, 2020
Batteries as virtual dams, and virtual transmission
Jun 17, 2020
Telstra dials up pursuit of 100 per cent renewables target
Jun 05, 2020
Sun Cable’s $20 billion solar and storage plan
May 28, 2020
Could Market Forces bring an end to coal and gas?
May 20, 2020
How to integrate 75 per cent wind and solar into Australia’s main grid
May 12, 2020
Transgrid and the new links to the future grid
Apr 28, 2020
Why green hydrogen beats coal hydrogen
Apr 21, 2020
Why WA could take lead in renewable energy transition
Apr 15, 2020
Australia’s rapid and low cost path to zero emissions
Apr 07, 2020
The plan behind Australia’s biggest wind farm
Mar 31, 2020
Covid-19 and the electricity grid
Mar 24, 2020
How to waste $1 trillion on coal
Mar 19, 2020
Two paths towards 100% renewables
Mar 06, 2020
How to design a market for high renewables grid
Feb 27, 2020
Victoria goes it alone to save renewable transition
Feb 19, 2020
There’s no “new normal” in climate change
Feb 12, 2020
Can Steggall bridge the climate divide?
Feb 04, 2020
Australia’s biggest unsubsidised battery
Jan 30, 2020
Australia’s energy future is renewable, and digital
Dec 18, 2019
Why networks really like wind and solar
Dec 12, 2019
Why Tasmania wants to be battery of the nation
Dec 03, 2019
Australia should be world leader in “base-cost” renewables
Nov 26, 2019
World’s biggest solar farm, and biggest battery
Nov 22, 2019
Carbon price takes toll on coal generators in Europe
Nov 13, 2019
Ross Garnaut and why Australia can be a renewable superpower
Nov 06, 2019
CleanCo pumps up for Queensland duck curve
Oct 29, 2019
Where will CEFC spend its remaining billions?
Oct 25, 2019
Australia’s future grid? You decide
Oct 18, 2019
100% renewables? Let’s do 700% renewables!
Oct 08, 2019
View from China: Climate and carbon markets
Oct 04, 2019
Is this the end of the wind and solar boom?
Sep 25, 2019
Let’s not forget climate science
Sep 12, 2019
It’s all about dispatchability
Sep 06, 2019
Humans are too slow for wind, solar and batteries
Aug 29, 2019
On the road to a decarbonised grid
Aug 21, 2019
Alinta’s vision of a rapid transition to clean energy
Aug 12, 2019
Snowy Hydro in the spotlight
Aug 09, 2019
Coalition’s revenge on RET, Labor’s solar stumble
Aug 01, 2019
Does demand response spell the end for dirty peakers?
Jul 26, 2019
Behind Northern Territory’s 10GW solar plans
Jul 17, 2019
Where to now for battery storage?
Jul 11, 2019
An audience with the Rottnest wind turbine
Jun 25, 2019
Mining industry turns to wind, solar, batteries and hydrogen
Jun 21, 2019
The good and bad from Australia’s big grid
Jun 13, 2019
Oliver Yates and what the public doesn't know
Jun 07, 2019
Energy Insiders: Shuffling jokers as sea levels rise
May 28, 2019
What’s the future for renewables in Australia?
May 21, 2019
Australia goes to the polls
May 15, 2019
Australia’s place in the global solar market
May 10, 2019
Have regulators gone too far on "system strength”?
May 02, 2019
Renew Estate’s very big storage play
Apr 24, 2019
How to electrify the world with renewables
Apr 17, 2019
Butler says Labor will move quickly on climate and energy
Apr 11, 2019
Pilbara wind and solar will be cheapest power in Asia
Apr 05, 2019
Coalition’s coal reality check, and Shell’s big electric plans
Mar 27, 2019
EnergyAustralia explains why wind and solar will be “bedrock" of Australia’s grid
Mar 20, 2019
Why pulling down polls and wires is a good idea
Mar 14, 2019
Coalition’s fake news on climate and energy
Mar 06, 2019
Simec Energy and ScoMo’s big hydro pump
Feb 27, 2019
100 per cent renewables: Is California dreaming?
Feb 20, 2019
AGL CEO Brett Redman on Australia’s “massive” energy transition
Feb 14, 2019
50% renewables: Too much, too soon? Or too slow?
Feb 06, 2019
Oliver Yates takes on Josh Frydenberg
Jan 29, 2019
How Texas managed influx of renewables
Dec 16, 2018
Smart Energy and the first year of the Tesla big battery
Dec 11, 2018
Mark Butler on Labor’s energy and climate policy
Dec 03, 2018
Victoria’s poll win and Labor’s energy plan
Nov 28, 2018
Ivor Frischknecht and the transition to 100% renewables
Nov 20, 2018
Momentum Energy CEO Amy Childs
Nov 13, 2018
Which Australian companies will go 100 per cent renewable?
Oct 29, 2018
Why big business is flowing into wind and solar
Oct 23, 2018
Coalswarm - Tracking coal plants by satellite
Oct 15, 2018
Energy Insiders podcast special: “live” from All Energy
Oct 08, 2018
Origin’s Greg Jarvis on why renewables are cheaper than coal
Oct 02, 2018
Debunking anti-renewable myths and "fair dinkum" power
Sep 25, 2018
EVs, transport emissions and the overwhelming case for renewables
Sep 17, 2018
Battery storage subsidies and SA energy minister Dan van Holst Pellekaan
Sep 11, 2018
Would conservatives try to stop clean energy if it wasn’t about emissions?
Sep 05, 2018
The future of pumped hydro
Aug 29, 2018
What Angus Taylor means for energy
Aug 27, 2018
Lily D’Ambrosio and the big solar deal
Aug 20, 2018
The good news from CoAG
Aug 13, 2018
Game of Tone’s - Winter is Coming
Aug 06, 2018
CEC on the spot over NEG
Jul 30, 2018
Straw-man arguments for NEG
Jul 25, 2018
AEMO’S Audrey Zibelman
Jul 17, 2018
NSW Labor sets course on renewables
Jul 09, 2018
The future of EVs
Jul 03, 2018
Tasmania’s battery of the nation
Jun 25, 2018
NEG: Devil in the detail
Jun 18, 2018
Labor’s Mark Butler on the NEG and electric vehicles
Jun 13, 2018
NSW coal, solar and Josh’s targets
Jun 11, 2018
Dispatchable solar: Just add water
Jun 04, 2018
South Australia charges up for storage
May 28, 2018
AEMO chief executive Audrey Zibelman
May 23, 2018
Why WA may lead world on micro-grids
May 22, 2018
ERM Power CEO Jon Stretch
May 14, 2018
The $20 billion Pilbara renewables hub
May 08, 2018
Blockchain for energy: Good or bad?
May 01, 2018
What next for energy policy?
Apr 24, 2018
NEG unplugged, and Tesla’s big rival
Apr 16, 2018
Future of storage in the US
Apr 09, 2018
ACT’s power play on NEG
Apr 05, 2018
World of wind and solar
Mar 27, 2018
South Australia hollers for a Marshall
Mar 21, 2018
The network that wants more solar
Mar 14, 2018
The shape of activism
Mar 06, 2018
Sonnen’s battery plans for Australia
Feb 27, 2018
Jay Weatherill’s big energy vision
Feb 22, 2018
Wind, solar and storage
Feb 13, 2018
Powershop, Powerwalls and power plays
Feb 04, 2018
Electric vehicles: Fact or fiction?
Jan 29, 2018
2017. And what’s in store for 2018
Dec 21, 2017
Moving beyond base-load
Dec 17, 2017
Audrey Zibelman on the future of energy
Dec 11, 2017
Tesla big battery, and what gas price fall?
Dec 06, 2017
The future of storage
Nov 27, 2017
Renewables and efficiency: How they work together
Nov 24, 2017
Energy Insiders Special Edition: Disruptive Innovation Festival
Nov 21, 2017
California Leading
Nov 16, 2017
CEFC on NEG, battery storage and returns
Nov 13, 2017
Whyalla leads on consumer power
Nov 06, 2017
How wind, solar and storage will beat coal
Oct 27, 2017
The National Energy Guarantee unpacked
Oct 22, 2017
Australia’s peak stupid, China’s peak emissions
Oct 15, 2017
Will we run out of lithium?
Oct 10, 2017
South Australia’s big battery
Oct 01, 2017
Blockchain and blockheads
Sep 25, 2017
Liddell and Tomago road trip, and Murdoch fabrications.
Sep 19, 2017
Turnbull’s mystifying “Captain’s pick” on Liddell
Sep 11, 2017
AEMO’s big day on baseload
Sep 04, 2017
Victoria takes lead in renewables
Aug 28, 2017
Port Augusta’s ground breaking solar tower
Aug 21, 2017
Turnbull’s Kath and Kim moment on energy
Aug 14, 2017
Malcolm in an energy muddle
Aug 07, 2017
Tesla, energy price wars and smart energy
Jul 30, 2017
Micro-grids, peer-to-peer, and 100% renewables
Jul 23, 2017
COAG, Tesla, delusions and Alan Jones
Jul 16, 2017
Energy Visions: Mark Butler and Climate Wars
Jul 10, 2017
Why networks love Sonnen, and not generators
Jul 06, 2017
How does a network adapt to a modern grid?
Jul 02, 2017
Behind Goldwind’s stunning low wind contract
Jun 26, 2017
Simon Corbell on Finkel, VRET and storage
Jun 19, 2017
Finkel Review, the highs and lows
Jun 12, 2017
Solar’s big play, and Trump’s vandalism
Jun 01, 2017
The plunging cost of battery storage
May 25, 2017
Australia gets its mojo back
May 19, 2017
Wind energy’s record low
May 15, 2017
Wind and solar cancel gas transition
May 05, 2017
Turnbull's big gas play
Apr 27, 2017
RE Weekly Podcast April 13
Apr 13, 2017
RE Weekly Podcast April 7
Apr 07, 2017
RE Weekly Podcast March 31
Mar 30, 2017
RE Weekly Podcast March 24
Mar 24, 2017
RE Weekly Podcast March 17
Mar 16, 2017
RE Weekly Podcast March 10
Mar 10, 2017
RE Weekly Podcast March 3
Mar 03, 2017
RE Weekly Podcast Feb 17
Feb 17, 2017
RE Weekly Podcast Dec 21
Dec 20, 2016
RE Weekly Podcast Dec 16
Dec 16, 2016
RE Weekly Podcast Dec 09
Dec 09, 2016