Earlier today on WattClarity here, Chris Thompson at Amber Electric posted about their experiences (as a start up energy service company) in assisting their growing customer base of residential energy users in NSW and South Australia in making the most…
Read MoreLast week I met with another of Australia’s major energy users, and was asked questions by some of their international representatives about the approach we have taken in assisting C&I energy users in a particular form of Demand Response: The particular…
This is the last of an initial series of articles about the opportunities for end users in the mainland regions of the National Electricity Market to save costs by purchasing electricity at pool prices and adopting a Demand Response strategy…
Last month I wrote about what happened with pool prices over 2014-15 in South Australia and Queensland and the opportunity for savings with pool price pass-through strategy and DSM. This week we will have a look at the opportunity in…
In early February I wrote this article about the electricity cost tsunami hitting SA businesses and what they could do to avoid the enormous price increases. I followed this up this month with a review of what January and February would…
1 January 2016 was the start date for the new “high price” contracts for SA business consumers that renewed their retail supply contracts in the second half of 2015. Quite a few consumers decided not to lock in the high…
This PG Energy customer operates a cold store in Brisbane and has an electricity consumption requirement of 500-600 KW . The customer also has a 1,200KW back up diesel generator on site. On the 5th March 2015, Brisbane experienced a…
I have written previously about the coming energy cost tsunami in WattClarity. Well, the electricity levee in South Australia has finally broken after severe cracking and the resultant tsunami is now swamping business consumers coming out of contract in 2016….
On Wednesday the founder and CEO of Altus Energy Strategies, Michael Williams published an article on WattClarity which outlined what topics need to be considered when businesses develop an energy strategy. Amongst the options discussed are methods of demand response…