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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.

Australian investors begin to hedge carbon risk
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 reallocation process?
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Apr 4, 2012

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Sydney takes first steps to leave the grid
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 major users are looking for solutions that do not require further investment in grid infrastructure. In fact, over time, Sydney may not require the grid at all.
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Apr 3, 2012

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Carbon falls to record lows, EU dreams of a fixed price
European carbon scheme collapsing under weight of its own success and over-generous compensation.
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Apr 3, 2012

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Are we smart enough to manage a smart grid?
The biggest future energy challenge might not come from incorporating new forms of supply, but from an increasingly complicated demand equation.
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Apr 3, 2012

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Zero-cost solar: Will this be Gillard’s election secret weapon?
Solar companies say the next big breakthrough in rooftop PV will be zero-cost solar leases. This is bad news for utilities, but a potential breakthrough for the Gillard government, preparing to fight the next federal poll on cost-of-living issues.
Giles Parkinson

Apr 2, 2012

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Which are the greenest banks in the world?
An Australian bank creeps into the ranking of the World’s 20 Greenest Banks for 2011, while another drops out.
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Apr 2, 2012

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Five things we learned this week ..
Three Tory Premiers announce a race to Stone Age; King Coal rules Down Under, but not in the US; AGL spies the future and gasps; and how to give energy retailers and network operators the bird.
Giles Parkinson

Mar 30, 2012

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Mixed Greens: UK nuclear plan dumped over costs
German utilities dump $25 billion nuclear project in UK because it is “impossible” to finance; Sydney City rolls out the LED lights.
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Mar 30, 2012

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Can-do Campbell and the art of political risk
Campbell Newman’s war on clean energy will give Queensland a rare distinction, as AGL takes aim at the country’s last remaining feed-in tariff.
Giles Parkinson

Mar 29, 2012

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In a renewable world, baseload generation is redundant
Denmark, Germany, Scotland and Ireland are all working out how to go 100% renewable. Could Australia do it too? A UNSW team updates its analysis and finds that baseload power generation is not needed; rather a little more PV, a little less solar thermal, and a lot of smart thinking and demand management.
Giles Parkinson

Mar 29, 2012

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Worley Parsons says LNG exports could be worse than coal
Far from being lower emissions, a report finds that CSG exported to China could, in fact, be much more emissions-intensive than coal.
Giles Parkinson

Mar 28, 2012

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US heralds the demise of coal
The Obama administration’s proposed EPA rule to control greenhouse gas emissions from new power plants could go far in shutting down America’s era of coal-fired power generation – a result the head of the Sierra Club’s Beyond Coal Campaign believes will be achieved as soon as 2030.
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Mar 28, 2012

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