Giles Parkinson
Founder and Editor at RenewEconomy
Podcast Co-Host at Energy Insiders - a RenewEconomy Podcast
Founder and Editor at TheDriven
Australia's only independent news and commentary on clean energy and climate change. Edited by @GilesParkinson
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2 weeks ago |
johnmenadue.com | Giles Parkinson
The death of manufacturing? It’s a constant refrain among the conservative nut jobs on Murdoch’s Sky After Dark and within the far right elements of the federal Coalition, who insist that more wind and solar will be the death of industry in Australia. The opposite turns out to be true.
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3 weeks ago |
thedriven.io | Giles Parkinson
The Australian electric vehicle market has rebounded from its lows of the past few months, topping the 10,000 aggregate sales in a single month in May for the first time in nearly a year, and lifting its market share to 9.5 per cent – still short of the record. Here are a few graphs that highlight some key parts of the market. The first graph from Tim Eden shows the aggregate sales of Tesla and non-Tesla EVs in the Australia market.
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3 weeks ago |
reneweconomy.com.au | Giles Parkinson
Renew Economy has enjoyed record readership in the past year, with total page views on its website topping 26 million over a rolling 1`2-month period for the first time, and the number of newsletter subscribers also growing 15 per cent over the last year. Data from Google Analytics shows that Renew Economy had page views of just over 26 million in the 12 months to the end of May, after another strong showing of 2.47 million page views in the month of May.
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3 weeks ago |
reneweconomy.com.au | Giles Parkinson
It must be nearly two decades now since we first heard talk about the “death spiral” of energy networks. It first came to be used for the electricity grid, but it seems that the industry has sorted itself out, accepted rooftop solar and consumer energy as a thing, and found a way to move forward. Now it’s the turn of gas pipeline networks.
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3 weeks ago |
reneweconomy.com.au | Giles Parkinson
ElectraNet, the transmission company that runs the backbone to the grid in South Australia, says the demand profile of the local grid has been fundamentally altered by the massive uptake of rooftop solar. The company say more than half of all homes in South Australia now have rooftop solar, and it is now seeing events on the grid that it could barely imagine just a few years ago, let alone witness.
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