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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.

Storage

Neoen starts work on next Tesla big battery project in Victoria
Neoen begins work on new Tesla big battery and 194MW wind farm that will provide 100% renewables to biggest glass-house in Australia.
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Mar 21, 2018

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Storage

Marshall feels blow-back as Tesla battery comments hit raw nerve
New premier Steve Marshall is feeling the heat for placing the future of Tesla’s battery plans in doubt. Maybe now he will go the whole hog and target nearly 100,000 homes with storage.
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Mar 21, 2018

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AEMO wants new rules to keep up with shift to renewables, rising temps
AEMO says NEM is not fit for purpose any more, given changes to generation mix, uptake of solar and storage, and soaring temperatures that lessen reliability of conventional generation.
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Mar 20, 2018

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CleanTech Bites

AEMO shatters some Marshall myths about South Australia energy
Assumptions that South Australia’s wholesale electricity prices are higher than other states, and that it relies more on imports, are not true.
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Mar 20, 2018

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Featured

Brewer CUB contracts 112MW solar farm, on way to 100% renewables
Australia’s biggest brewer, CUB, signs deal with new 112MW solar farm near Mildura as part of its plans to go 100% renewables by the end of this year, saying it will lower and lock in electricity costs. The shift to renewables by Australia’s manufacturing base is accelerating.
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Mar 20, 2018

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Markets

Speed of Australia’s energy transition hostage to Marshall law
Election of Steve Marshall – and expectation he will be a vassal of Coalition in Canberra – likely to do more damage to country’s renewable energy transition than that of his state. Jay Weatherill will be missed, but he leaves SA with huge momentum.
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Mar 19, 2018

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Storage

Marshall’s first promise as SA premier: Kill Tesla battery plan
New SA Premier Steven Marshall vows to scrap Tesla’s plans for world’s biggest virtual power plant targeting low income households, in favour of a $100 million subsidy for those homes already with solar.
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Mar 19, 2018

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Policy & Planning

New analysis shows NEG is worse than doing nothing
New analysis suggests the targets contained in the National Energy Guarantee are actually worse than if the government did nothing.
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Mar 19, 2018

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Emperor with no clothes: NEG could kill investment in storage
If the NEG could get one thing right, you might think it would be a signal for new investment in “dispatchable” capacity. But Tesla and Genex, the leading developers of battery storage and pumped hydro projects, say it could do the opposite.
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Mar 16, 2018

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Storage

Gupta gets $10 million SA loan to trump Tesla’s big battery
$10 million loan from SA Government to help Sanjeev Gupta steal crown of “world’s biggest lithium ion battery” from Tesla’s Elon Musk.
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Mar 16, 2018

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Storage

Tesla says Energy Security Board needs to catch up with battery technology
Tesla says National Energy Guarantee needs to be much more ambitious, and Energy Security Board needs to catch up with technologies like battery storage.
Giles Parkinson

Mar 15, 2018

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Storage

South Australia’s renewable energy future hanging by a thread
Just two days out from South Australia’s state poll, the result is in the balance, and so too is the fate of its status as a world leader in renewable energy. The outcome will also have huge bearing on the pace of the energy transition for the whole of the country.
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