Giles Parkinson

Giles Parkinson is founder and editor of Renew Economy, and is also the founder of One Step Off The Grid and founder/editor of the EV-focused The Driven. He is the co-host of the weekly Energy Insiders Podcast. Giles has been a journalist for 40 years and is a former business and deputy editor of the Australian Financial Review. You can find him on LinkedIn and on Twitter.

Giles's recent articles

GILES PARKINSON. Dumb politics means we may be stuck with an even dumber grid

It was just six years ago when Malcolm Turnbull, then deposed Liberal Party leader, attended thelaunch of the Beyond Zero EmissionsZero Carbon plan for 2020, which suggested Australia should and could attain 100 per cent renewable energy by 2020. Turnbull, by all accounts, was an enthusiastic participant, and was particularly excited by solar towers and molten salt storage. There is a real opportunity there, with that technology, to generate baseload power from solar energy something of a holy grail.

GILES PARKINSON. Uhlmanns bizarre prediction of national blackout if we pursue wind and solar

The ABC is supposed to have a ban on advertising. But even if it was allowed, money couldnt buy the sort of advocacy the fossil fuel industry and incumbent energy interests are receiving this week from the networks chief political correspondent, Chris Uhlmann. On Thursday,we took Uhlmann to taskfor the way he reported the blackout event in South Australia, and his suggestion that the states large portfolio of wind energy assets were at fault. Later that day, Uhlmann doubled down,in an articleon the ABC website,and then on a major piece to camera on the flagship 7pm TV news....

GILES PARKINSON. Coalition launches fierce attack against wind and solar after blackout.

The Coalition government launched a ferocious attack against wind and solar energy after the major South Australian blackout, even though energy minister Josh Frydenberg and the grid operators admitthat the source of energy had nothing to do with catastrophic outage. Frydenberg, however, lined up with prime minister Malcolm Turnbull, deputy prime minister Barnaby Joyce, One Nations Malcolm Roberts, independent Senator Nick Xenophon and a host of conservative commentators, including Andrew Bolt, Alan Moran, theABCs Chris Ullmann,and Fairfax Brian Robinsto exploitthe blackout to question the use of renewable energy. Frydenberg used the blackoutto continue his persistent campaignagainst the renewable...

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