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.

Energy Insiders - a RenewEconomy Podcast
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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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[…] Solar is an important adjunct. So while these, you know, solar is not great at the moment, we think that will change in the future. So we're going to build. We think about a new area. We have a wind farm, which is a very large area. Typically, we will have an area for batteries. And we'll always say, if we want to build solar, this is where the solar goes. And what we're trying to do is fill in during the day, when the wind drops off during the day, fill in energy during the day. And the idea there is you start using the transmission system all throughout the day, rather than building a transmission line for wind farmers, not really setting any energy down the line during the middle of the day, you then fill in solar. […]
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