Show overview
Energy Insiders - a RenewEconomy Podcast has been publishing since 2016, and across the 10 years since has built a catalogue of 449 episodes. That works out to roughly 330 hours of audio in total. Releases follow a weekly cadence.
Episodes typically run thirty-five to sixty minutes — most land between 35 min and 52 min — though episode length varies meaningfully from one episode to the next. None of the episodes are flagged explicit by the publisher. It is catalogued as a EN-language News show.
The show is actively publishing — the most recent episode landed 6 days ago, with 21 episodes already out so far this year. Published by Energy Insiders - a Renew Economy Podcast.
From the publisher
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
View all 449 episodesTesla 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?
How did it come to this? Energy security expert and former deputy chief of the RAAF John Blackburn on how Australia's has done nothing to prepare itself for the current fossil fuel crisis. Plus: EV sales are surging and electric trucks are a thing. Someone tell the transport minister!
The remarkable story of Australia's first community-owned solar farm
A solar farm inspired by Tony Abbott's climate attacks has finally been opened. Mhairi Fraser takes us through the remarkable journey. Plus: Boyne bailout, oil markets, and the EV boom.
Why batteries are the answer to nearly everything
We talk to Jeff Monday from Fluence on the fall in battery costs and the role it can play in taming data centre demand, and Adam Cameron from SA Power Networks on why there will be no transition without the "flexibility" revolution in the home.
How the world's fourth biggest economy plans to reach 100 pct clean energy
David Hochschild, the head of the California Energy Commission, on how the world's fourth biggest economy is moving away from fossil fuels, despite Trump. Plus: News of the week.
The revolution in electric trucking
The Australian trucking industry is about to experience an electric revolution, with plunging battery prices turning economics on its head. New Energy Transport's Daniel Bleakley explains. Plus: News of the week.
Special episode: How to close down oil and gas
Francis Norman, the head of the Centre of Decommissioning Australia, on the extraordinary task of shutting down and removing oil and gas wells, and the lessons that could be learned for the offshore wind industry.
China’s clean energy surge reshapes coal, oil and the grid
Lauri Myllyvirta, lead analyst at the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air, on China’s record solar and wind build, and why clean energy is now driving more than a third of the country’s economic growth.
The rise of the flexible grid: How industry, AI and data centres are reshaping demand
GridBeyond CEO Michael Phelan on how industrial loads and data centres are being orchestrated by AI and batteries to unlock gigawatts of hidden flexibility for the grid.
Why batteries are getting bigger and marrying solar
Sam Reynolds, the head of Octopus Australia, on why he hopes to build the country's biggest battery, and the emergence of solar-battery hybrids. Plus: AGL and Origin's fossil fuelled profits, with a green tinge.
Malcolm Turnbull on hydro, LNP, One Nation and Trump
Former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull is pushing for more hydro, but is still pumped up by the hard right and the disappearance of the sensible middle. Plus: Big batteries seize the moment again.
"We are not all crazy" - the climate and clean energy battle in Trumps's America
Gina McCarthy, Obama's former EPA chief and Biden's climate czar, on the move to resist and overturn Trump's devastating policies. Plus: News of the week, and a perfect quarter for Australia.