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Solar Insiders Podcast: The highs and lows of 2021

Solar taxes, solar switch-offs, 100 per cent solar, amazing technology cost predictions and some stunning innovations. And it all happened in 2021.

Sophie Vorrath 23 December 20210

WA’s biggest solar farm delivers a capacity factor of 40 per cent for the month of November, which will have pleased its new owners.

Giles Parkinson 22 December 20210

Wind and solar set new record share of local demand, as fossil fuel output reduced to a mere fraction in South Australia grid.

We have the technology: Kobad Bhavnagri, from BloombergNEF, discusses opportunities in green steel and green aluminium for Australian industry.

Giles Parkinson 17 December 20210

Solar output records posted across the grid, although La Niña got in the way of some big round numbers.

AEMO’s Alex Wonhas and Nicola Falcon discuss the draft ISP, the early departure of coal, and managing a renewables grid.

Peter Cowling, the head of Vestas in Australia, on the scale and speed, and challenges, of the renewables transition.

Nigel Morris 15 December 20210

Nigel talks to solar retailers and installers about the highs and lows of the 2021 solar coaster, and finds out what’s in store for 2022.

AEMO’s Alex Wonhas and Nicola Falcon discuss the draft ISP, the early departure of coal, and managing a renewables grid.

5B’s Chris McGrath joins us to talk about 5B’s new acquisition and gigawatt scale deployment plans. Plus: Confusion over DC Isolators.