Renewables

Energy Insiders Podcast: Why big business is flowing into wind and solar

Flow Power is pioneering new retail model delivering renewable energy to big business consumes.

Already, it has signed off-take agreements with three new wind projects and a solar project.

We talk to CEO Matthew van der Linden about the business appetite for wind and solar – they want lower electricity prices, and they want clean energy, and how this model could change the market.

And we look at the recent Wentworth by-election and what that may mean for policies and politics, plus the other news of the week.

You can find this and prior episodes of Energy Insiders here, along with episodes from Solar Insiders and our EV-focused podcast, The Driven.

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Join Renew Economy founder and editor-in-chief Giles Parkinson and columnist and energy markets expert David Leitch as they discuss the week's main events - politics, solar and storage.

Energy Insiders Podcast

Join Renew Economy founder and editor-in-chief Giles Parkinson and columnist and energy markets expert David Leitch as they discuss the week's main events - politics, solar and storage.

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