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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.

Storage

CSIRO says Australia can get to 100 per cent renewable energy
CSIRO says no technical barriers to 100% renewables, and levels of up to 30% should be considered “trivial” as other energy experts reject conservative attachment to “baseload” fossil fuels.
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Feb 22, 2017

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Coal

Frydenberg on blackouts: No mention of failing network, gas, software
Frydenberg blames blackouts on wind and solar, and attributes no blame to network faults, storms, dud software or failing gas plants.
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Feb 21, 2017

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CleanTech Bites

Queensland regulators want battery storage out of homes, garages
Queensland regulators suggest all battery storage devices be put inside separate enclosures, and not inside homes or garages. Installation costs could soar.
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Feb 21, 2017

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Solar

Why new coal? Solar towers + storage beats it on all counts
Developers of solar tower and storage technology lays down challenge to proposed new “clean” coal plants, saying their technology wins on price, flexibility, fuel costs and emissions.
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Feb 21, 2017

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Renewables

Labor re-embraces 50% renewable energy goal by 2030
Federal Labor has backflipped on its renewable energy target backflip, with leader Bill Shorten insisting party still committed to 50% by 2050.
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Feb 20, 2017

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Coal

Why Coalition’s “clean” coal plans are just a smoke dream
Coalition’s “clean coal” plant would be costlier and dirtier than alternatives, and on top of that would require billions of dollars of government indemnities and guarantees.
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Feb 20, 2017

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Featured

Australian wind farms to compete with gas to provide grid stability
Wind farms to show they can provide same system services – inertia and frequency – as coal and gas plants in major new trial in South Australia.
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Feb 20, 2017

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Policy & Planning

Labor’s policy dance likely means more gas, not renewables
The designers of the scheme Labor has embraced to meet climate targets admit it is designed to promote gas, not wind or solar – even with a 50% emission reduction target.
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Feb 17, 2017

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Storage

Victoria seeks to build country’s biggest grid-scale battery storage
Victoria’s Labor government calling for expressions of interest to build 20MW battery storage array, to improve grid stability.
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Feb 17, 2017

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Policy & Planning

APRA says climate change already poses “system-side” financial risks
Australia’s premier financial regulatory body has delivered a stark warning to the country’s politicians, saying that climate change already poses “system-side” financial risks.
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Feb 17, 2017

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Policy & Planning

Why is Labor so hopeless at defending renewables policy?
Labor appears to have made huge backflip on renewables in effort to hide Bill Shorten’s hopeless attempts to defend the policy. Instead of a fixed target, they want to lump renewables into an emission trading scheme, which is more likely to bring new wind and solar to a halt.
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Feb 16, 2017

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Featured

SA blackouts: dud forecasts, lousy software, failing gas plants
The report by the Australian Energy Market Operator into the rolling blackouts or load shedding in South Australia last week reveal a sorry tale of bad management, lousy forecasts, dud software and failing fossil fuel plants.
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Feb 16, 2017

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