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…
Tag: Making complexity understandable
About media quote on solar panels being “mostly useless” late in the day
During the national heatwave of February 2016, we fielded many calls from journalists and saw an increasing number of parties use (or embed) a variety of our bite-sized widgets, all focused at making some aspects of complexity more understandable. One…
Battery Storage compendium service created
Throughout 2016 we have been working with the Australian Energy Storage Council in the development of a national Energy Storage Register (the reasoning for which is provided here). This project is ongoing. In the process of developing this service for…
BatteryFinder™ widget launched
Our BatteryFinder™ widget, launched in October 2016, continues to grow as a searchable/filterable ready reference to the makes and models of battery storage currently available on the Australian market. BatteryFinder™ emerged as a milestone in the development of the broader…
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…
Pondering the future of Australia’s electricity market through detailed analysis
Our CEO, Paul McArdle recently penned an article on WattClarity pondering whether the remarkable price results from Q2 were a short lived excursion or whether they are the begging of a more systematic change in pricing patterns. Paul’s article caught the…
Providing analysis on the possible closure of Australian power station
Last week, Sydney Morning Herald journalist’s Adam Morton and Brian Morris published an article on the possible closure of coal-power generation at the Hazelwood Power Station. In the article, the journalists sought comments from a number of industry experts including…
LiveGen Widget goes live – “a world leader”
Our new internationally-focused LiveGenTM 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 –…
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…