“The Australian” used NEM-watch Live Generation widget to illustrate fuel mix

07SepSeptember 7, 2017

In his article “Rush to renewables as coal cools” in the Australian on Thursday 7th September, Andrew White used a reproduction of the RenewEconomy-sponsored NEM-Watch Fuel Type Widget to help his readers understand the fuel mix that was occurring for one 5-minute period (the 16:30 “dispatch interval”) the previous day. The widget also has been designed to help those not so familiar with – part of our effort to help with Energy Literacy in more general terms.

For those who did not see it, here’s the image (with a few clarifications, to help with the understandability):

(click HERE for a higher resolution view)

We appreciate every opportunity to help people understand what’s happening in Australia’s energy sector (particularly the “National Electricity Market”), and would invite readers to visit the live copy of the NEM-Watch Widget to watch as the fuel mix changes through each and every day.

No charge, if you want to embed this on your website – thanks to the widget’s sponsor, RenewEconomy! Just click the <EMBED> button on the widget and follow the instructions.

Various media outlets look to Global-Roam for clarity during heat wave

16FebApril 10, 2017

In early February, numerous news websites including the Adelaide Advertiser and the Sydney Morning Herald embedded our NEM-Watch Live Generation Widget (as seen on RenewEconomy) to help explain the generation mix of each state of Australia during the recent heat waves affecting the South Australian and New South Wales electricity network. In addition to the situational awareness that the widget provided, Allan O’Neil made several posts on WattClarity during the week including this initial analysis attempting to explain the root causes of the blackouts experienced in South Australia.

NEM-Watch Fuel Type Widget snapshot helps illustrate the state of South Australian energy generation after blackout

07OctOctober 12, 2016

In an effort to talk around last week’s power blackout in South Australia to a wider audience, The Australian published a number of infographics on pg. 6 of their daily edition on Thursday, the 18th of October, 2016.

Included was an artistic reproduction of a snapshot taken from our NEM-Watch Widget from 4pm the previous day – as shown here:

The snapshot was used to compare the energy generation make-up for each state against their respective renewable energy targets

The Australian attributed this image to the SA Government, because they accessed the live chart on the SA Government website.

This location in the Department of State Development is the current location (as at October 2016) of the embedded copy of the NEM-Watch Fuel Type Widgets, one of the growing number of 3rd party “Host” locations that are choosing to embed this widget, which started its life at these two initial locations:

At RenewEconomy here; and
On the NEM-Watch portal here.

LiveGen Widget goes live – “a world leader”

03FebApril 5, 2016

Our new internationally-focused LiveGen^TM widget has been live for a short period of time, and can be accessed here:

http://data.RenewEconomy.com/LiveGen

We’re pleased to be able to work with the people at RenewEconomy to help make global complexity more understandable – in this case, in terms of the contributions of various generation fuel types across a growing number of locations (currently 29 locations across Australasia, Europe and North America with more coming…) .

We’ve built this to address one of the common points of feedback we received over the past 12 months or so of providing our NEM-Watch^TM widget (accessed here and here and discussed here) to a growing number of people.

We noted that Ketan Joshi had described the new tool and “AMAZING” and had voiced some nice words about us being “a world leader in visualising” (complexity):

Thanks Ketan! Always nice to hear when what we do helps to clarify something about the energy sector.

We’re looking for more locations to add in – let us know if you know of some!

An influx of compliments on our new RenewEconomy generation by fuel type widget

15AugApril 5, 2016

We are very proud to have received a growing number of compliments after the release of our new Generation by Fuel Type Widget available on the RenewEconomy homepage.

We have received positive feedback from industry professionals such as renewable energy consultants:

“…the instantaneous NEM generation graphs by fuel type on Renew Economy are….Bloody Brilliant! We can now track the demise of fossil fuels in the NEM on a half hourly basis.”

David Woodgrove, Renewable Energy Consultant/DPA Solar

21st March 2015

to other general admirers:

“Congratulations on the widget. I follow it every day”

Bruce McMillan

17th July 2015

Click here to read more testimonials about the Generation by Fuel Type Widget and NEM-Watch.