

Energy Insiders - a RenewEconomy Podcast
RenewEconomy
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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Nov 13, 2017 • 32min
CEFC on NEG, battery storage and returns
CEFC boss Ian Learmonth joins Energy Insiders to discuss the NEG, the new Lincoln Gap wind farm with battery storage, and what’s next for the CEFC’s growing portfolio.

Nov 6, 2017 • 26min
Whyalla leads on consumer power
Why Whyalla’s green steel turns the tables on the fossil fuel industry; why networks suddenly love rooftop solar; and why Garnaut’s down on the NEG.

Oct 27, 2017 • 30min
How wind, solar and storage will beat coal
Windlab explains why world-first wind plus solar plus storage facility in Queensland will beat coal, and why NEG is so disappointing to industry.

Oct 22, 2017 • 33min
The National Energy Guarantee unpacked
Does the fact that it got past the Coalition party room make the National Energy Guarantee good policy?

Oct 15, 2017 • 33min
Australia’s peak stupid, China’s peak emissions
Australia’s energy debate hit peak stupid last week, and then got even worse. Meanwhile, in China, the world’s biggest polluter may have already reached peak emissions.

Oct 10, 2017 • 28min
Will we run out of lithium?
Australian lithium miner Orocobre on the looming shortfall in lithium needed for EVs and batteries, and on the deficiency of Australia’s energy policies.

Oct 1, 2017 • 30min
South Australia’s big battery
The owner of the so called Tesla big battery is French company Neoen. Its Australian head Franck Woitiez joins Energy Insiders to discuss that project, and other storage projects on the horizon.

Sep 25, 2017 • 26min
Blockchain and blockheads
Power Ledger’s Jemma Green on how blockchain technology will allow consumers to share solar energy; while David Leitch and Giles Parkinson differ on whether we should ignore Tony Abbott.

Sep 19, 2017 • 27min
Liddell and Tomago road trip, and Murdoch fabrications.
A road trip to the Hunter Valley to visit Liddell and Tomago, the Murdoch media’s renewable fabrications, and political stalemates.

Sep 11, 2017 • 37min
Turnbull’s mystifying “Captain’s pick” on Liddell
New head of AEMO expert advisory committee says Coalition push for Liddell is mystifying, given AEMO and Finkel Review, while analyst David Leitch says it is Venezuela-Style politics.