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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.

CleanTech Bites

Oil and gas giant to quit Australian renewables despite CIS battery tender win
Oil and gas giant to focus on fossil fuels, and sell most of its renewable and storage portfolio, including in Australia where it has just won a major battery tender.
Giles Parkinson

Oct 3, 2025

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Chart of the day

Renewables overtake coal for first time on monthly basis in Australia’s main grid
Renewables overtook coal on a monthly basis for the first time in September, with one wind farm delivering average capacity factor of 67.9 pct.
Giles Parkinson

Oct 2, 2025

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Renewables

“They need to get cracking:” Bowen on renewable targets and LNP’s “poor decisions” in Sunshine state
Chris Bowen says energy companies “need to get cracking” to meet renewables targets, and says Queensland LNP government making some “poor decisions”
Giles Parkinson

Oct 2, 2025

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Policy & Planning

Dan Tehan fails to grasp difference between baseload and firming as he sprouts nonsense on nuclear
Dan Tehan is touting “transportable” nuclear reactors of up to 10 gigawatts as diesel replacement for mine sites. Someone needs to have a quiet word.
Giles Parkinson

Oct 2, 2025

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Policy & Planning

South Australia and AGL reach funding deal on Torrens Island gas extension due to transmission delays
AGL and South Australia reach deal on extension to Torrens Island gas generators, needed because of delays to the new transmission link to NSW.
Giles Parkinson

Oct 1, 2025

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Storage

Neoen starts work on first six-hour battery after giant “solar soaker” completed months ahead of schedule
Neoen starts work on its first six-hour battery as the country’s biggest battery – completed four months ahead of schedule – starts its contract as a “solar soaker”
Giles Parkinson

Oct 1, 2025

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Second gigawatt scale battery in NSW to start commissioning process at site of shuttered coal plant
AGL Energy’s big battery at Liddell is about to enter the commissioning process, just over two years after the shutting down of the ancient coal fired power station.
Giles Parkinson

Oct 1, 2025

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NSW opens new tender for batteries and demand response to help fill Eraring coal gap
NSW opens tender for 500 MW of new firming capacity – likely batteries and demand response – to help fill potential gap in state’s major load centres.
Giles Parkinson

Oct 1, 2025

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Renewables

Origin seeks federal green tick for huge wind and battery project in Barnaby’s back yard
Origin seeks approval for huge wind and battery project on land it owns in New England REZ, where Coalition MP Barnaby Joyce is waging a war against renewables.
Giles Parkinson

Sep 30, 2025

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Storage

Network giant launches Australia’s biggest tender for grid forming batteries
Transmission company announces launch of the country’s biggest ever tender for grid forming batteries to provide system strength, or the ‘heart beat” of the grid.
Giles Parkinson

Sep 30, 2025

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Renewables

Australia’s wind energy drought set to be broken as AGL signs 15-year contract with South Australia project
Australia’s wind financing drought expected to be broken after the country’s biggest coal generator signs 15-year off take deal with new South Australia project.
Giles Parkinson

Sep 30, 2025

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Chart of the day

New Zealand’s first big battery is already pushing down prices, market operator says
The first big battery in New Zealand is already reducing prices, even on a grid dominated by hydro, the market operator says.
Giles Parkinson

Sep 29, 2025

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