Over the prior week (Monday 4th June to Friday 8th June 2018), the NSW region – and, to a lesser extent, the broader NEM – experienced a tight supply/demand balance. In response to what was happening during the week, we…
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Animation on WattClarity helps explain what happened during yesterday’s blackout throughout South Australia
Our CEO, Paul McArdle spent the best part of last night piecing together the animation below in an attempt to understand what went on leading up to and during yesterday’s blackout throughout South Australia. Using ez2view, the animation explains what…
WattClarity helps the Australian Financial Review explain Tasmanian situation
A recent article published by our CEO, Paul McArdle about the state of Tasmania’s electricity supply was quoted by journalist Ben Potter in yesterday’s edition of the Australian Financial Review. Ben Potter sought quotes from a number of experts in…
Journalist asks for insight about “free energy”
The electricity supply industry is currently the subject of much conjecture about how the future might unfold. One such scenario involves the possibility that the cost of solar and storage will continue past patterns of decline to the point where…
Energy blogger uses NEM-Review to analyse historical demand data
Energy, science and technology blogger Ketan Joshi published an article on Monday which posed the question ‘Is Sydney’s heat decoupling from demand spikes?’. Within the post, he uses historical data from NEM-Review to compare New South Wales’ average demand between 2000-2015 against…
Energy generator uses WattClarity and ez2view to highlight demand side response in consultation paper for rule change request
The Snowy Hydro Corporation have submitted a rule change request that would see a change to the National Electricity Rules to oblige price sensitive demand greater than 30MW to bid into central dispatch. An excerpt from this WattClarity article posted…
Explaining what demand would look like on a renewable-heavy NEM to a wider audience
A previous article written by our CEO, Paul McArdle for WattClarity has recently been published on RenewEconomy. Paul is booked in to speak at the 2015 All Energy conference about what role Demand Response might play in a future environment where intermittent generation…
Explaining South Australian wind generation to interested (and confused) stakeholders
After fielding a number of questions relating to wind farm production in South Australia over a two week period – our CEO, Paul McArdle took to WattClarity to help make the complexity of the situation understandable to many interested (and…
Explaining why large energy users are concerned about last week’s machinations in South Australia
A week of unusual occurrences in the South Australian energy space fascinated many onlookers, particularly large energy users. After fielding a number of calls from large energy users in South Australia who were wanting to know what was going on,…
Providing insights about the state of solar-panel subsidies in Australia
In the summer of 2013-14, Geoff Winestock wrote an article for the Australian Financial Review regarding the state of solar-panel subsidies which became topical after a series of heatwaves in the southern parts of Australia. The article came after the…