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Giles Parkinson

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Giles Parkinson is founder and editor-in-chief of Renew Economy, and founder and editor of its EV-focused sister site The Driven. He is the co-host of the weekly Energy Insiders Podcast. Giles has been a journalist for more than 40 years and is a former deputy editor of the Australian Financial Review. You can find him on LinkedIn and on Twitter.

Biggest wind farm in NSW reaches financial close, to feature Australia’s biggest turbines
Biggest wind farm in NSW reaches financial close, to be built in electorate of federal energy minister Angus Taylor.
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Sep 1, 2021

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Coal

Cannon-Brookes slam dunks Liberal MP on Twitter over gas and nuclear claims
Billionaire Mike Cannon-Brookes debunks Liberal MP’s claims about the role of nuclear and gas in the UK grid. The real answer is less coal and more renewables.
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Sep 1, 2021

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CleanCo signs up to new 180MW Queensland wind project as Octopus extends reach
CleanCo signs contract for new 180MW wind farm in Queensland, only the second wind farm to reach financial close in last 18 months.
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Aug 31, 2021

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Rooftop solar could meet up to three quarters of total grid demand by 2025
Rooftop solar is going to fundamentally change the grid, AEMO says, and push operational demand down to lows never contemplated before.
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Aug 31, 2021

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Featured

AEMO’s new reliability forecasts give lie to Taylor’s Coalkeeper campaign
AEMO says there is enough new renewables and other generation entering the grid to cover any supply shortfalls, although coal is becoming less reliable.
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Aug 31, 2021

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Sun Cable: World’s biggest solar and battery project is about to get a lot bigger
Sun Cable is to announce a significant expansion to what is already the world’s biggest solar and battery project, and will deliver first output to Darwin in 2026.
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Aug 30, 2021

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Coal

Brown coal output hits record low in Victoria, as renewables reach 72% of demand
Generation from most polluting technology in Australia’s grid – brown coal – hits record low on Saturday as renewables grabbed major share.
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Aug 29, 2021

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“Keep coal to encourage renewables:” Is this the silliest energy headline ever written?
If energy and climate policy could be decided by slogans and newspaper headlines, then federal energy minister Angus Taylor would have an easy job.
Giles Parkinson

Aug 27, 2021

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Solar

Genex writes down value of 50MW solar plant due to falling electricity prices
Jemalong solar farm suffers impairment as a result of accounting treatment, as Genex moves forward on its first big battery project.
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Aug 27, 2021

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Featured

NSW stuns with 34GW of wind, solar proposals for New England renewable zone
NSW gets 34GW of project proposals for its New England renewable energy zone, one of five designed to build the capacity to replace coal.
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Aug 27, 2021

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Featured

Independent advice to ESB was strongly against Taylor’s favoured “Coalkeeper” subsidy
Independent advice to ESB warned against capacity mechanism championed by Angus Taylor, and which may pay coal plants to do things they can’t do.
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Aug 26, 2021

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Coal

After three years, Taylor is finally succeeding in his promise to stop wind and solar
Angus Taylor’s main goal when he became energy minister was to stop wind and solar in their tracks. He may finally be succeeding.
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Aug 26, 2021

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