Giles Parkinson & David Leitch
Network owners were once seen as villains for over-charging on local networks, but they're pretty happy about building new links to capture wind and solar resources.
Hydro 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.
Climate Renewables
Energy Insiders Podcast: Australia should be world leader in “base-cost” renewables
BloombergNEF 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.
In 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...
The 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.
CleanTech Bites Podcasts Renewables
Energy Insiders Podcast: Ross Garnaut and why Australia can be a renewable superpower
Ross Garnaut on why Australia can reach 100 per cent renewables in little more than a decade, and then go further and be a renewable superpower.
Governments Queensland Government Renewables
Energy Insiders Podcast: CleanCo pumps up for Queensland duck curve
CleanCo chair Jacqui Walters discusses plans and strategies as Queensland’s newest generation company prepares to enter the market this week.
CEO Ian Learmonth discusses the Clean Energy Finance Corp’s investment strategy, and which technologies and sectors will be targeted from now.
Australian Federal Government CleanTech Bites Coal Governments Victorian Government
Australia’s dirty grid may kill its biggest customers, and the case for coal
A potential closure of Alcoa's Portland smelter would have huge ramifications for the Australian grid. It would remove the biggest customer of brown coal, and ironically accelerate the transition...
Oliver Woldring and Jose Zapata from ITP Renewables discuss OpenCem, which allows people to model their own energy transition. Plus: AEMC’s new rules.
