
Energy Insiders - a RenewEconomy 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.
Latest episodes

Mar 17, 2023 • 46min
What price solar and storage?
Acen Australia CEO Anton Rohner talks solar and storage after opening Australia’s biggest solar farm, and the controversy over Tasmania wind project.

Feb 27, 2023 • 40min
Game changer for networks and renewables
Neara’s Jack Curtis on the new software that reveals how networks have double the capacity to host renewables and storage.

Feb 17, 2023 • 44min
Will concentrated solar finally have its day in the sun?
Vast Solar’s Craig Wood on why concentrated solar power can finally have its day in the sun, plus its Port Augusta project and NY listing plans.

Feb 10, 2023 • 52min
The Australian solar heroes bringing down coal and gas
Professor Andrew Blakers, one of the team awarded "Nobel prize" of engineering, and how solar will eliminate fossil fuels, and Australian's leading role in that transition.

Feb 3, 2023 • 52min
Does a green hydrogen power plant stack up?
Sam Crafter dealt with technology skeptics when he led the task force for the Tesla Big Battery. Now he's doing it again as head of South Australia's hydrogen office.

Jan 31, 2023 • 53min
Energy Transformed: Amping up - Victoria's energy transition; a crucial 12 months ahead
In the final part of our Energy Transformed podcast series we look at Victoria’s ground-breaking path from brown coal to green energy, and the role that the new public utility will play in the transition.
Kylie Lane, a partner at Ashurst who specialises in mergers and acquisitions and the energy sector, talks to Lily D’Ambrosio, Victoria’s Minister for Energy, Environment and Climate Change.

Jan 27, 2023 • 1h 1min
Do we have enough lithium?
Lithium analyst Rodney Hooper on supply and demand for key battery metal. Plus: Solar has killed coal, but can it kill gas?

Dec 20, 2022 • 51min
Chris Bowen on gas, batteries, EVs, wind and targets
Federal Energy and Climate Minister Chris Bowen discusses the stream of new announcements in the last month, and what’s in store for 2023.

10 snips
Dec 15, 2022 • 1h 2min
The road to 100 per cent renewables
AEMO’s head of system design Merryn York on the engineering roadmap to 100 per cent renewables. Plus: The gas price cap debate.

Dec 9, 2022 • 42min
Andrew Forrest’s big Australian power play
Squadron Energy CEO Eva Hanly discusses Squadron Energy’s surprise $4 billion plus purchase of CWP. Plus: Energy ministers come up with a storage plan.