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Energy Insiders - a RenewEconomy Podcast — 455 episodes
Why we make renewable projects so hard
Is Australia on target for a “step change” in energy?
Electric truck network starts to take shape
Solar and batteries good, wind is hard
The problem with network tariffs
"The grid doesn't need rotating mass"
Tesla Energy boss on energy abundance, EVs, V2G and big and small batteries
Plugging the holes in EV charging
Will data centres break the grid?
Budget's fossil fail, and how to fix the CIS
The man who saved solar and helped kill coal
Electric trucks are profitable, but diesel struggles
Chris Bowen on renewable target, wind delays, EVs and electrification
Batteries take centre stage as world wrestles with fuel crisis
Why wind projects are stalled at the gate
Is fuel rationing inevitable?
The remarkable story of Australia's first community-owned solar farm
Why batteries are the answer to nearly everything
How the world's fourth biggest economy plans to reach 100 pct clean energy
The revolution in electric trucking
Special episode: How to close down oil and gas
China’s clean energy surge reshapes coal, oil and the grid
The rise of the flexible grid: How industry, AI and data centres are reshaping demand
Why batteries are getting bigger and marrying solar
Malcolm Turnbull on hydro, LNP, One Nation and Trump
"We are not all crazy" - the climate and clean energy battle in Trumps's America
Our oceans are heating and we are still burning coal
Is the wind drought over?
A blueprint to quit coal, and go green
No spin needed for renewable gold rush
Origin CEO Frank Calabria's big energy vision
Are Labor's environmental laws any good?
Where the bloody hell is our super?
The future of wind energy
Social licence in New England, and a sea of household batteries
Data centres, batteries, gas and SMRs
Fortescue's bold charge to real zero by 2030
Managing the backbone of the grid
Chris Bowen on coal, renewables, EVs and UN
Australia, China and a big week for V2G
Is Australia’s emissions target good enough?
Time to go "full sail" on decarbonisation
"We had to innovate to survive"
AGL's struggle with coal
Data centres and the grid
Regional communities and the renewable gold rush
Lifting the lid on the Nelson Review
The making of Australia's biggest battery
What is Australia going to do now?
Greasing the wheels of net zero
Lily D'Ambrosio and the fight against vested interests
Why we need more big batteries
Australia's new green bank
The changing dynamics of battery storage
All about electric planes
Changing the grid, one Tesla battery at a time
Dealing with the gas death spiral
Offshore wind gets ready for auction
The path to ultra low cost solar
"I just want energy to be boring."
Tilt hones in on wind and batteries
The view from inside the gas industry
China and green steel
Electric trucks and buses and the grid
Big leap forward for batteries on wheels
Turbines and batteries: GE Vernova’s plans to help electrify Australia
Solar and battery make better grid partners than wind
A cheaper way to host wind and solar
The tipping point in solar and battery storage
Donald Trump’s war on climate, energy and science
The low down on grid and EV batteries
Special Episode: Australia’s green hydrogen hope
Market changes could come quickly
Why is the green energy transition made to sound so hard?
Are renewables back on track?
Energy industry gets ready for election
"I don’t know if we can adapt”
Chris Bowen on renewables, emissions, EVs, and nuclear
Dutton’s high stakes, low sense nuclear plan
CSIRO slaps down Coalition nuclear power play
Solar is not the enemy
Getting the best out of the grid
Changing the rules of the energy game
Why batteries on wheels will be the next big thing
Trump is back, and the frog is still boiling
How to replace gas
From zero to renewable hero in 20 years
The trouble with markets
A spring full of renewable and battery records
Even hydro is moving beyond baseload
How to get demand response out of the grid
The end of baseload
Rent-seeking and net zero
The rapidly changing climate
Should networks be more than poles and wires?
The search for equity
Managing the trauma of grid expansion
A civil war over renewables?
Here comes the sun
The extraordinary solar and battery boom in the Texas oil state
Ted, Chris, nuclear and long term storage
The problem with higher costs and longer delays
Batteries on wheels are coming
China rules on EVs, solar, everything
Homes, electric cars and the grid
The rapidly changing grid
Is there a problem with renewables?
Asean super grid, and a question over storage
Eraring coal extension and nuclear fantasies
Bigging up the grid
Hydrogen hopeful's big funding win
Victoria's big bet on offshore wind
Chris Bowen explains the green energy plan
The renewable challenge in south-east Asia
China, China, China
Is there a smarter way to transmit power?
Managing solar ducks in the middle of Australia
Would you trust your utility to control your solar?
Australia’s biggest smelters flick switch to wind and solar
The push for coal to play off the bench
The boom in wind energy
Podcast special: How to make offshore wind work in Australia
The battery domino effect
Renewable energy barriers and curtailment
The climate crisis and the energy transition
AEMO’s blueprint for wind, solar and storage
Will Chris Bowen’s capacity scheme actually work?
Victoria’s SEC and its first big battery play
Macquarie marches in to Australian renewables
AI, inverters and a smarter grid
Bowen's capacity scheme, and NSW's "free" batteries
State of confusion
Wind, solar, batteries and pumps
The end of spinning machines
South Australia's big move into green hydrogen
Australia’s methane problem
Social licence in the regions
What price Marinus?
Net Zero by 2035
The end of baseload in world’s biggest standalone grid
Coal-keeper or Green-keeper?
Locking in the Green Energy Transition
Out with coal, in with EVs
Are heat batteries the next big thing?
Wind, solar and social licence
What Australia can learn from Uncle IRA
Australia's biggest agri-solar and battery project
The path to net zero for industry
Landmark green hydrogen deal with traditional landowners
Chris Bowen on climate and renewable targets
Hottest day, hottest week, hottest month
BlackRock’s big play, and 12-hour batteries
Australia’s rise as an electro-state
From brown coal to big batteries
Australia’s grid needs a 1.5°C target
Can NSW quit coal?
How to connect wind, solar and batteries
Are we too focused on big energy?
EVs and big batteries on the march
Batteries and pumped hydro fight over coal succession plan
In love with wind, solar and batteries
Sims to lead Superpower info war
Wind and solar deal killer blow to fossil fuels
Smarter grid means a cleaner grid
How big will offshore wind be?
Moving wind and solar through time and space
What price solar and storage?
Game changer for networks and renewables
Will concentrated solar finally have its day in the sun?
The Australian solar heroes bringing down coal and gas
Does a green hydrogen power plant stack up?
Energy Transformed: Amping up - Victoria's energy transition; a crucial 12 months ahead
Do we have enough lithium?
Chris Bowen on gas, batteries, EVs, wind and targets
The road to 100 per cent renewables
Andrew Forrest’s big Australian power play
Biden’s tax-driven push for ultra low cost wind and solar
Australia’s carbon capital has a transition plan
“Fit for 55”: EU climate package could tax Australia
Brookfield’s $20 billion green energy plans
Solar tiles and electric Tuk Tuks
Ørsted’s big power play in Australia
Victoria’s big switch to 95 pct renewables
Storage and the future of the grid
Cost and scale of renewables
De Brenni on Queensland flip to renewables
How to make buildings green and efficient
Australia will soon treat Co2 as a pollutant
Climate bill, Snowy and the case for a strategic reserve
How much storage is needed for 100% renewables?
Gravity storage and shipping green hydrogen - hype or hope
Climate and community independents have their sway
Australia’s dirty fuel scandal
Why this should be Australia's last energy crisis
Can offshore wind float in Australia
Big solar and even bigger batteries
Wind, solar and storage win transition race
Federal Climate and Energy Minister Chris Bowen
Australia's rapid transition to renewables
Smart technologies, flawed markets
The energy crisis … and offshore wind
Energy Transformed Podcast | The Future of Energy Systems: Digital and Data Challenges
The Future of Energy Systems: Digital and Data Challenges
How to connect all that wind, solar and storage
Deep dive into Australia’s coal and gas crisis
No more coal and gas mines, says Bandt
Why Australia risks falling behind on green energy
AGL, MCB and smart inverters
2°C? It’s already nearly too late
The lop-sided battle for climate independents
Can Europe survive without Russia’s gas?
Fortescue’s grand green energy plans
Origin’s big shift from baseload
Victoria's big offshore wind plans
Snowy Hydro and the missing links
Mike Cannon-Brookes and closing coal
EVs and the grid
EnergyAustralia and the end of coal
Green transition and greenwash
Future of green steel and green aluminium
Vestas head winds up on transition
Say goodbye to coal
Hazelwood transition from dirty coal plant to big battery
The case for pumped hydro
The green energy transition as seen from Japan
Energy Transformed: How close is the green economy?
Australia will pay high price for Morrison’s lack of leadership
Why batteries could beat pumped hydro on long storage
Mike Cannon-Brookes on the green energy future
Grid batteries up for electric buses
Australia can hit 91 pct renewables in a decade, and keep the lights on
Alinta’s big Pilbara and offshore wind plays
Europe’s gas crisis
Sun Cable, Hornsdale, and social licence
Energy Transformed: Can batteries take charge of the grid?
Tasmania has big green plans, can it deliver?
Pole position: Networks want more battery storage
Do we want to keep coal, or move on?
Taylor’s Coalkeeper subsidy, and lessons from US
Replacing coal with renewables in south-east Asia
Will IPCC overcome Morrison’s prosperity doctrine?
Can Australia break its wind and solar investment drought?
New AEMO boss Daniel Westerman
How quickly can we got to 100% renewables
AEMO’s 100pct renewables plan, and the view from Japan
Batteries accelerating shift to renewables
Chris Bowen on Labor’s policies, not targets climate pitch
Why farmers want action on climate
Green hydrogen in mines
Australia’s biggest wind farm takes shape
Shell Australia’s big power play
A new wind and solar investment drought
Why green ammonia could be Australia’s next big export
Changing the world with solar, batteries and EVs
Why inverters are key to a renewables grid
Kerry Schott on the post-2025 market reform
Solar and wind driving fastest ever energy transition
Australia’s first offshore wind farm
The future of batteries, EVs and hydrogen
AGL’s Brett Redman on the big company split
Solar tax: AEMC’s Benn Barr on new export rule
Solar eclipse, and can EVs really provide storage on wheels
Yallourn, Angus Taylor and the Enegy transition in Newcastle
Adam Bandt’s climate and energy action plan
What does Texas mean for Australia’s grid reform?
Batteries in the street: the new face of storage
AGL’s survival plan, and AEMO’s new boss
Can batteries rule the grid?
Why networks now love solar and battery storage
Missing link: Can conservatives embrace energy transition?
How good is green hydrogen?
How companies and states rescued wind and solar
EV taxes, big batteries and green hydrogen
Matt Kean and the NSW energy transition
Why wind is better value than solar
CEFC sees “raft” of battery deals, but gas “debatable”
Can China wean itself off coal?
Why network companies want to move beyond poles and wires
Zibelman on why she is leaving, and AEMO’s next steps
The windy west, and network news
Zibelman, Schott and the “step change” transition
Tesla’s battery revolution, CCS, and the climate emergency
Coalition’s gas plans, changing ARENA into ACCSA, and Battery Day
Lynham: Our future is renewable energy
It’s going to be a quick transition, and markets need to change
The clean energy transition, and how to connect it
State of inertia and potential for grid-forming inverters
Garnaut’s Sunshot to renewables future
Why WA and miners can lead transition to wind and solar
Angus Taylor tries to bury energy transition under cloak of secrecy
Solar exports: More sun for everyone
Digital, distributed and democratic: The new energy future
Energy minister Matt Kean’s vision for NSW to be renewable superpower
Electric vehicles: Can the world catch up with Tesla?
Batteries as virtual dams, and virtual transmission
Telstra dials up pursuit of 100 per cent renewables target
Sun Cable’s $20 billion solar and storage plan
Could Market Forces bring an end to coal and gas?
How to integrate 75 per cent wind and solar into Australia’s main grid
Transgrid and the new links to the future grid
Why green hydrogen beats coal hydrogen
Why WA could take lead in renewable energy transition
Australia’s rapid and low cost path to zero emissions
The plan behind Australia’s biggest wind farm
Covid-19 and the electricity grid
How to waste $1 trillion on coal
Two paths towards 100% renewables
How to design a market for high renewables grid
Victoria goes it alone to save renewable transition
There’s no “new normal” in climate change
Can Steggall bridge the climate divide?
Australia’s biggest unsubsidised battery
Australia’s energy future is renewable, and digital
Why networks really like wind and solar
Why Tasmania wants to be battery of the nation
Australia should be world leader in “base-cost” renewables
World’s biggest solar farm, and biggest battery
Carbon price takes toll on coal generators in Europe
Ross Garnaut and why Australia can be a renewable superpower
CleanCo pumps up for Queensland duck curve
Where will CEFC spend its remaining billions?
Australia’s future grid? You decide
100% renewables? Let’s do 700% renewables!
View from China: Climate and carbon markets
Is this the end of the wind and solar boom?
Let’s not forget climate science
It’s all about dispatchability
Humans are too slow for wind, solar and batteries
On the road to a decarbonised grid
Alinta’s vision of a rapid transition to clean energy
Snowy Hydro in the spotlight
Coalition’s revenge on RET, Labor’s solar stumble
Does demand response spell the end for dirty peakers?
Behind Northern Territory’s 10GW solar plans
Where to now for battery storage?
An audience with the Rottnest wind turbine
Mining industry turns to wind, solar, batteries and hydrogen
The good and bad from Australia’s big grid
Oliver Yates and what the public doesn't know
Energy Insiders: Shuffling jokers as sea levels rise
What’s the future for renewables in Australia?
Australia goes to the polls
Australia’s place in the global solar market
Have regulators gone too far on "system strength”?
Renew Estate’s very big storage play
How to electrify the world with renewables
Butler says Labor will move quickly on climate and energy
Pilbara wind and solar will be cheapest power in Asia
Coalition’s coal reality check, and Shell’s big electric plans
EnergyAustralia explains why wind and solar will be “bedrock" of Australia’s grid
Why pulling down polls and wires is a good idea
Coalition’s fake news on climate and energy
Simec Energy and ScoMo’s big hydro pump
100 per cent renewables: Is California dreaming?
AGL CEO Brett Redman on Australia’s “massive” energy transition
50% renewables: Too much, too soon? Or too slow?
Oliver Yates takes on Josh Frydenberg
How Texas managed influx of renewables
Smart Energy and the first year of the Tesla big battery
Mark Butler on Labor’s energy and climate policy
Victoria’s poll win and Labor’s energy plan
Ivor Frischknecht and the transition to 100% renewables
Momentum Energy CEO Amy Childs
Which Australian companies will go 100 per cent renewable?
Why big business is flowing into wind and solar
Coalswarm - Tracking coal plants by satellite
Energy Insiders podcast special: “live” from All Energy
Origin’s Greg Jarvis on why renewables are cheaper than coal
Debunking anti-renewable myths and "fair dinkum" power
EVs, transport emissions and the overwhelming case for renewables
Battery storage subsidies and SA energy minister Dan van Holst Pellekaan
Would conservatives try to stop clean energy if it wasn’t about emissions?
The future of pumped hydro
What Angus Taylor means for energy
Lily D’Ambrosio and the big solar deal
The good news from CoAG
Game of Tone’s - Winter is Coming
CEC on the spot over NEG
Straw-man arguments for NEG
AEMO’S Audrey Zibelman
NSW Labor sets course on renewables
The future of EVs
Tasmania’s battery of the nation
NEG: Devil in the detail
Labor’s Mark Butler on the NEG and electric vehicles
NSW coal, solar and Josh’s targets
Dispatchable solar: Just add water
South Australia charges up for storage
AEMO chief executive Audrey Zibelman
Why WA may lead world on micro-grids
ERM Power CEO Jon Stretch
The $20 billion Pilbara renewables hub
Blockchain for energy: Good or bad?
What next for energy policy?
NEG unplugged, and Tesla’s big rival
Future of storage in the US
ACT’s power play on NEG
World of wind and solar
South Australia hollers for a Marshall
The network that wants more solar
The shape of activism
Sonnen’s battery plans for Australia
Jay Weatherill’s big energy vision
Wind, solar and storage
Powershop, Powerwalls and power plays
Electric vehicles: Fact or fiction?
2017. And what’s in store for 2018
Moving beyond base-load
Audrey Zibelman on the future of energy
Tesla big battery, and what gas price fall?
The future of storage
Renewables and efficiency: How they work together
Energy Insiders Special Edition: Disruptive Innovation Festival
California Leading
CEFC on NEG, battery storage and returns
Whyalla leads on consumer power
How wind, solar and storage will beat coal
The National Energy Guarantee unpacked
Australia’s peak stupid, China’s peak emissions
Will we run out of lithium?
South Australia’s big battery
Blockchain and blockheads
Liddell and Tomago road trip, and Murdoch fabrications.
Turnbull’s mystifying “Captain’s pick” on Liddell
AEMO’s big day on baseload
Victoria takes lead in renewables
Port Augusta’s ground breaking solar tower
Turnbull’s Kath and Kim moment on energy
Malcolm in an energy muddle
Tesla, energy price wars and smart energy
Micro-grids, peer-to-peer, and 100% renewables
COAG, Tesla, delusions and Alan Jones
Energy Visions: Mark Butler and Climate Wars
Why networks love Sonnen, and not generators
How does a network adapt to a modern grid?
Behind Goldwind’s stunning low wind contract
Simon Corbell on Finkel, VRET and storage
Finkel Review, the highs and lows
Solar’s big play, and Trump’s vandalism
The plunging cost of battery storage
Australia gets its mojo back
Wind energy’s record low
Wind and solar cancel gas transition
Turnbull's big gas play
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