Giles Parkinson
Giles Parkinson is founder and editor of RenewEconomy.com.au, and is also the founder of OneStepOffTheGrid.com.au and founder/editor of www.TheDriven.io. Giles has been a journalist for 35 years and is a former business and deputy editor of the Australian Financial Review.
Bids for the ACT government's solar auction close today. Given that similar auctions in California last week delivered average bids of just US8.9c/kWh, the ACT tender could be a...
Silex Systems finds a site in California to build a 1MW demonstration plant of its unique CPV technology.
Which town is the solar capital of Australia? Which suburbs have the most solar PV? A state-by-state breakdown of who installed what, where and why.
WA utility Horizon Power has become the first in Australia to offer differentiated solar tariffs to customers in varying locations. If energy utilities adopted the same policy in the...
Tea Party attacks clean-energy conspiracy; carbon slumps again; GGAS canned; Cape Wind's $7bn merit order effect; T-Boone says yes, Contact says no, to new wind.
Origin taps into Chile's ambitious clean energy plans, and boosts its pipeline of global hydro-electric projects to nearly $10 billion.
A new portfolio offering from Industry Funds Management is the first to allow investors to hedge their portfolios against carbon risk. Could this be the start of the capital...
The launch of a City of Sydney program to build a trigen network of 410MW or more is the first of its kind in Australia, and the first where...
European carbon scheme collapsing under weight of its own success and over-generous compensation.
The biggest future energy challenge might not come from incorporating new forms of supply, but from an increasingly complicated demand equation.