This show was broadcast on Mon 6th March 2017

The focus of today's show is the Coalition for Community Energy Congress 2017 - which happened on Feb 27 & 28. Guest interviews include: Professor Søren Hermansen, director of Samsø's Energy Academy and Nicky Ison, director and founder of Community Power Agency.

And various participants from the congress including the Future Super #ReInvest event.

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Beyond Zero's Anthony Daniele speaks to Matt Grantham about the corporate finance ideas that are bringing about the brown to green transition in the energy utility market. Matt has researched a case study of the demerger of German utility E.ON.

Matt Grantham analyses parenting advantage, capital allocation and the corporate finance ideas that are accelerating the green transition to renewable energy, battery storage, emergence of new technology, distributed energy markets and the energy utility disruption.

BZE Technology Radio Show: 2 March 2017: Podcast

Beyond Zero Emissions talks to Matt Grantham.

BZE Interviewer: Anthony Daniele

Interview recorded on: 2 March 2017

From Radio 3CR in Melbourne, Australia

Further reading:

Renew Economy

GTM: Utilities Are Investing Heavily in Startups in Order to Disrupt Themselves

Beyond Zero's Anthony Daniele speaks to Matt Grantham about the corporate finance ideas that are bringing about the brown to green transition in the energy utility market. Matt has researched a case study of the demerger of German utility E.ON.

Matt Grantham analyses parenting advantage, capital allocation and the corporate finance ideas that are accelerating the green transition to renewable energy, battery storage, emergence of new technology, distributed energy markets and the energy utility disruption.

BZE Technology Radio Show: 2 March 2017: Podcast

Beyond Zero Emissions talks to Matt Grantham.

BZE Interviewer: Anthony Daniele

Interview recorded on: 2 March 2017

From Radio 3CR in Melbourne, Australia

Further reading:

Renew Economy

GTM: Utilities Are Investing Heavily in Startups in Order to Disrupt Themselves

This show was broadcast on Mon 27th Feb 2017

The 2016 Sydney Peace Foundation Prize was presented to Naomi Klein at Sydney Town Hall on Friday 11 November. This inspiring lecture and award ceremony featured an opening song by Missy Higgins, an introduction by Senator Patrick Dodson and the awarding of the Prize by Professor Gillian Triggs.

"The Jury commended Klein for proposing solutions that not only reduce emissions and end fossil fuel extraction, but also aim for social justice, economic fairness."

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This show was broadcast on Mon 27th Feb 2017

The 2016 Sydney Peace Foundation Prize was presented to Naomi Klein at Sydney Town Hall on Friday 11 November. This inspiring lecture and award ceremony featured an opening song by Missy Higgins, an introduction by Senator Patrick Dodson and the awarding of the Prize by Professor Gillian Triggs.

"The Jury commended Klein for proposing solutions that not only reduce emissions and end fossil fuel extraction, but also aim for social justice, economic fairness."

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In this podcast, Beyond Zero radio talk to Jay Rutovitz. Research Director at the Institute for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney (UTS). The BZE radio team caught up with Jay when she visited Melbourne to present a session at the recent Community Energy Congress called Maximising value – solar, storage and all things trading. Jay Rutovitz is an environmental scientist who has worked in renewable energy and energy efficiency since 1994.

"Jay Rutovitz has completed a range of distributed energy options research projects and also a study of the potential network benefits of Concentrating Solar Power, across the National Electricity Merket (NEM)” [Photo supplied by UTS]

BZE Technology Radio Show: 28 April 2017: Podcast

Beyond Zero Emissions talks to Jay Rutovitz

BZE Interviewers: Kay Wennagel, Michael Staindl, Natalie Bucknell, Laura Perri

Interview recorded on: 22 February 2017

From Radio 3CR in Melbourne, Australia

Further reading:

The Conversation: Articles by Jay Rutovitz

As a new social enterprise Allume Energy is helping renters, low income earners and those living in community housing to transition to solar.

In one of their first projects, as a trial, Allume Energy worked with the Aboriginal Land Council to bring solar to indigenous communities in NSW.

Today to help us understand what Allume Energy does, we have Cameron Knox, the CEO at Allume Energy.

 

BZE Technology Radio Show: 24 February 2017: Podcast

An edited version of this podcast will soon be available on this page.

Till then, you can play an unedited version via the 3CR web site.

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We discussed:

A demonstration project providing solar power for an aboriginal community in Naramine NSW

Providing solar panels for low income renters in apartments

The householders got substantially lower electricity bills and there was no capital outlay for them.

Beyond Zero Emissions hosts: Michael, Kay, Natalie

This BZE Technology Radio Show was:

Recorded live on 24 February 2017, and

First broadcast from Radio 3CR in Melbourne, Australia

 

Links

Allume Energy Website

Allume Energy email

ABC RN Podcast: Making solar power accessible to those who can't afford it

University of Melbourne: Four Science students and alumni inducted into MAP16 Startup Accelerator

BZE Podcast: BZE speaks to Miriam and Rowan from Smart Blocks

In this podcast, Prof Andrew Blakers talks about how pumped hydro energy storage can support a 100% renewable energy grid of wind and PV.

BZE Technology Radio Show: 17 Feb 2017: Podcast

Beyond Zero Emissions talks to Prof Andrew Blakers:

Foundation Director of the Centre for Sustainable Energy Systems at the Australian National University, which employs over 60 staff

Published approximately 200 papers and patents mainly in the areas of photovoltaic and solar energy system

Research interests include Solar energy, semiconductors, photovoltaics, silicon solar cells, urban concentrators, Energy policy & economics. Pumped hydro energy storage.

BZE Interviewers: Kay Wennagel, Michael Staindl, Natalie Bucknell

Interview broadcast on: 17 Feb 2017

From Radio 3CR in Melbourne, Australia

Further reading:

The Conversation: The government is right to fund energy storage: a 100% renewable grid is within reach

RenewEconomy: ANU to map pumped hydro storage potential to back wind and solar

ANU: Energy Storage

Commentary thanks to BZE volunteer Bev McIntyre:

An oversize farm dam on a steep hill can be a miniature hydro electric scheme!

Kay, Michael and Natalie interviewed Prof. Andrew Blakers from the Sustainable Energy Systems at ANU to speak about Pump Hydro Energy Storage (PHES)

Andrew described pump hydro as a relatively simple mechanism -  basically only needing a large dam, a steep hill and a connecting pipe. The same water gets pumped from the base of the hill to the upper reservoir where it remains until required for the production of energy on its return. The steeper the hill the more effective, as this would produce more force and require a shorter length of pipe. It can be set up relatively easily -  "off the shelf" as Andrew describes it.

There are many systems in the world, some connected to rivers, but there are thousands of available sites off-rivers - including many opportunities in South Australia (S.A.).  There are three already in use in Australia - two on rivers, one at Kangaroo Valley.

S.A. already has nearly 50% renewables, mainly wind, and there is a need for both a storage facility and an upgrade of the inter-connectors to the NEM.

Andrew and his team will be releasing a paper about pumped hydro storage for a 100% renewable energy grid in March 2017.

As a new social enterprise Allume Energy is helping renters, low income earners and those living in community housing to transition to solar.

In one of their first projects, as a trial, Allume Energy worked with the Aboriginal Land Council to bring solar to indigenous communities in NSW.

Today to help us understand what Allume Energy does, we have Cameron Knox, the CEO at Allume Energy.

 

BZE Technology Radio Show: 24 February 2017: Podcast

An edited version of this podcast will soon be available on this page.

Till then, you can play an unedited version via the 3CR web site.

How to “subscribe to our podcasts” and “use our audio player”

We discussed:

A demonstration project providing solar power for an aboriginal community in Naramine NSW

Providing solar panels for low income renters in apartments

The householders got substantially lower electricity bills and there was no capital outlay for them.

Beyond Zero Emissions hosts: Michael, Kay, Natalie

This BZE Technology Radio Show was:

Recorded live on 24 February 2017, and

First broadcast from Radio 3CR in Melbourne, Australia

 

Links

Allume Energy Website

Allume Energy email

ABC RN Podcast: Making solar power accessible to those who can't afford it

University of Melbourne: Four Science students and alumni inducted into MAP16 Startup Accelerator

BZE Podcast: BZE speaks to Miriam and Rowan from Smart Blocks

In this podcast, Prof Andrew Blakers talks about how pumped hydro energy storage can support a 100% renewable energy grid of wind and PV.

BZE Technology Radio Show: 17 Feb 2017: Podcast

Beyond Zero Emissions talks to Prof Andrew Blakers:

Foundation Director of the Centre for Sustainable Energy Systems at the Australian National University, which employs over 60 staff

Published approximately 200 papers and patents mainly in the areas of photovoltaic and solar energy system

Research interests include Solar energy, semiconductors, photovoltaics, silicon solar cells, urban concentrators, Energy policy & economics. Pumped hydro energy storage.

BZE Interviewers: Kay Wennagel, Michael Staindl, Natalie Bucknell

Interview broadcast on: 17 Feb 2017

From Radio 3CR in Melbourne, Australia

Further reading:

The Conversation: The government is right to fund energy storage: a 100% renewable grid is within reach

RenewEconomy: ANU to map pumped hydro storage potential to back wind and solar

ANU: Energy Storage

Commentary thanks to BZE volunteer Bev McIntyre:

An oversize farm dam on a steep hill can be a miniature hydro electric scheme!

Kay, Michael and Natalie interviewed Prof. Andrew Blakers from the Sustainable Energy Systems at ANU to speak about Pump Hydro Energy Storage (PHES)

Andrew described pump hydro as a relatively simple mechanism -  basically only needing a large dam, a steep hill and a connecting pipe. The same water gets pumped from the base of the hill to the upper reservoir where it remains until required for the production of energy on its return. The steeper the hill the more effective, as this would produce more force and require a shorter length of pipe. It can be set up relatively easily -  "off the shelf" as Andrew describes it.

There are many systems in the world, some connected to rivers, but there are thousands of available sites off-rivers - including many opportunities in South Australia (S.A.).  There are three already in use in Australia - two on rivers, one at Kangaroo Valley.

S.A. already has nearly 50% renewables, mainly wind, and there is a need for both a storage facility and an upgrade of the inter-connectors to the NEM.

Andrew and his team will be releasing a paper about pumped hydro storage for a 100% renewable energy grid in March 2017.