Linton Corbet has recently joined our team at Global-Roam after 7 years working in the AEMO’s demand forecasting team. Earlier today he published an analysis on the upcoming wholesale Demand Response Mechanism, in which he covered how the mechanism might…
Read MoreWhen the National Electricity Market (NEM) was established, generators provided both energy and stability services. Consumers were passive, using energy when needed. In the 1990s it was difficult to foresee that households would be able to provide energy or ancillary…
German residential battery system manufacturer Sonnen has been included in MIT Technology Review’s “50 Smartest Companies 2016” list. Sonnen is Europe’s leading home energy storage manufacturer. The company has been spreading its wings in countries including Australia, where the sonnenBatterie…
In all of the major cities and regional towns of Australia there are thousands of standby sets. These sets have the potential to be the most effective form of demand management available but are greatly underutilised as they are not…
As I noted a few weeks ago on WattClarity®, I watched with puzzled interest as a new pricing pattern emerged across all regions of the NEM through Q2 2016. Since that post, prices have maintained their bounce – as a…
Several years ago businesses in Australia enjoyed a global competitive advantage by operating in an environment of low energy costs . . . then things changed. High energy costs are now becoming critical, and we have seen many businesses (particularly…
In the last in this series on developing your Demand Response strategy, I want to talk briefly about some of the analytical models that will underpin your success. Throughout this series, I have highlighted, both directly and indirectly, the need…
Last week I talked about the back-office capabilities required to deliver a Demand Response program. In this second half of the post, I talk about technologies on the consumer side. Automated Demand Response (ADR) is relatively mature for Commercial and…
So far in this Demand Response series, I have provided my thoughts on the primary definitions, so you know what is, and what is not Demand Response. I have talked about the drivers and why you may want to develop…
Assuming you have read part I and part II of this series you understand what demand response is and why you may want to have such a capability. You should also have an idea of what capacity you need under…
In my last post, I described what I believed Demand Response is, and isn’t. I described Demand Response as being where a third party, such as a Utility, has a need for a consumer to reduce their electricity during a…
In this first of a five-part series I want to focus on the meaning of key terms. I continue to have conversations where people are using demand side management, demand response, energy conservation, and energy efficiency interchangeably. They all mean…
In my previous articles on electricity pool pass-through and Demand Response (see articles for SA, QLD, NSW and VIC) I presented historical pool price data over the last two years and compared that with indicative retail pricing to indicate the…
Earlier today Paul McArdle from WattClarity published this article which commented on Tasmania’s unfolding energy crisis. Paul mentions that some of the biggest energy users in the state are helping to conserve precious water supplies by agreeing to some substantial reductions…
I was on holidays at the time but one of the others in the team pointed out ABC’s Catalyst show featuring the emergence of the Reposit Power model of providing Demand Response in the NEM by coordinating between residential energy…
The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) CEO, Ivor Frischknecht has penned this article for Hello Grid which discusses a ‘grid revolution’ that is slowly emerging throughout Australia. One question that the article poses is how to bridge the gap between…
Earlier this week Paul McArdle posted an article to WattClarity after speaking at All-Energy in early October. His presentation (with narration included) from the conference is available here: