Giles Parkinson, Author at Renew Economy

Giles Parkinson

Editor

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.

Coal

Big win for fossil fuels as regulators seek 12 month delay on 5-minute rule change
Big win for incumbent fossil fuel generators as regulators argue that Covid-19 pandemic requires 12-month delay to crucial market reform that would encourage more competition from batteries.
Giles Parkinson

Apr 8, 2020

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Electric Vehicles

The Driven Podcast: Australia’s electric dreams
New Tritium CEO Jane Hunter assesses the electric vehicle landscape in Australia, the market for fast-charges, government policy, and declining fossil fuel car sales
Giles Parkinson

Apr 8, 2020

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Renewables

Tilt says capital return won’t stop battery storage investments
Tilt to give $260 million in excess cash back to investors, but says it won’t impact decision on battery storage projects or Rye Park wind farm.
Giles Parkinson

Apr 8, 2020

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Solar investors say NT’s big battery in Darwin-Katherine grid is too small
Solar farm developers say the proposed big battery in Darwin is likely too small to do the job required, and urge shift to time of use tariffs for rooftop installations.
Giles Parkinson

Apr 8, 2020

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Solar

RES buys contested 100MW solar project on outskirts of Canberra
RES buys heavily contested 100MW Springdale solar project in NSW from Renew Estate.
Giles Parkinson

Apr 7, 2020

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Raygen signs up global developer Photon, plans huge 1000MWh solar storage project
Photon takes equity stake in Australia’s RayGen and claims its unique solar plus storage technology is the “holy grail” for renewables.
Giles Parkinson

Apr 7, 2020

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CleanTech Bites

Neoen, Mondo plan massive 600MW Victoria big battery near Geelong
Neoen teams up with Mondo Power to propose a Victoria big battery that will be four times the size of its Tesla big battery in South Australia.
Giles Parkinson

Apr 7, 2020

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Northern Territory offers $6,000 grant for home batteries, cuts solar tariff
Northern Territory to provide $6,000 grant for homes and businesses to install battery storage, funded by a cut in the solar feed in tariff.
Giles Parkinson

Apr 6, 2020

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NT plans big battery in Darwin to cut gas costs and accelerate solar
Northern Territory finally endorses big battery for Darwin grid, which will deliver 5-year payback and help expansion of solar power needed to meet 50% renewables target.
Giles Parkinson

Apr 6, 2020

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CleanTech Bites

West Australia puts community batteries at top of new energy roadmap
W.A. unveils new energy roadmap focusing on rooftop solar, batteries and EVs, and will roll out ten “neighbourhood” batteries in and around Perth before end of the year.
Giles Parkinson

Apr 5, 2020

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CleanTech Bites

Solar constraints could be relaxed before end of April, clearing path for new projects
Tuning solution for solar inverters to be tested next week, raising hopes that constraints on solar farms, and connection delays to more than a dozen large scale projects, can be relaxed.
Giles Parkinson

Apr 3, 2020

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W.A. paves way for more stand-alone power systems, and distributed batteries
Western Australia government paves way for more renewable-based stand-alone power systems and distributed storage – and for competition in the networks.
Giles Parkinson

Apr 3, 2020

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