Behind the scenes, we’ve been working on an upgrade to the NEMwatchTM application for some time (you might have seen some early snapshots in articles like these on WattClarity®). On Monday 27th September 2021, we released v10.2 of NEMwatch and made it publicly accessible for licensed users. With the market’s looming shift to Five Minute…
The month of January 2019 saw extreme temperatures registered across much of the Australian continent. As a result, high levels of electricity demand were experienced – and pushed electricity supply infrastructure (generation, and transmission/distribution) to the limit.
On Friday 25th January, journalists at the Australian reproduced of a snapshot from the NEMwatch widget showing the 17:40 dispatch interval (NEM time) on Thursday 24th January (with a couple artistic tweaks) – here’s a view of the print edition, with the full copy of the online article “Heat stress: power crisis hits home” here:
You can find the live updating version of this RenewEconomy-sponsored “Live Supply & Demand Widget”, which some just call the NEMwatch widget, on a (still) growing number of locations:
For those seeking to learn more about the effects of the heatwave, some articles on our WattClarity energy-sector commentary site will be of some assistance:
The first week of winter 2018 (Monday 4th June to Friday 8th June) saw a tight supply/demand balance in the NSW region of the NEM – with prices spiking near the Market Price Cap on Tuesday, Thursday and Friday, and various forms of demand response triggered as a result. Journalist at the Newcastle Herald wrote…
As noted here in this article on Wattclarity about the commencement of operations at what’s currently “the world’s biggest battery” in South Australia, we have upgraded the popular NEM-Watch Fuel Mix widget to show both sides of the battery operation. Here’s the view from WattClarity: The upgraded widget is being finalised (with feedback definitely welcomed)…
Earlier today, the Sydney Morning Herald published a live feed of updates on the heat wave affecting the east coast of the country. As part of their coverage they posted a screenshot of our Live Electricity Consumption widget (sponsored by the ECA) from around 12:40pm which was used to illustrate temperatures around Australia and their…
After yesterday’s announcement of the planned closure of Victoria’s Hazelwood Power Station by the end of March 2017, many stories have been published on the impacts for the industry. The Australian newspaper published a whole page spread about the story on page two of their daily edition this morning. Included was a snapshot from the…
“I really love the widget and its part of the reason I visit RenewEconomy so much”
Lachlan Ennis
1st November 2016
One of our team members was surprised, last night (i.e. Friday 3rd June 2016) to see an old image of an old version of NEM-Watch (from way back in 2007) used to illustrate how Tasmania would normally be interconnected to the mainland by the sub-sea HVDC (high-voltage direct current) link connecting into the Latrobe Valley in Victoria….
“I am impressed by your almost live data graph of NEM data for Australia. Coming from South Australia (and a rooftop PV early adoptor) I am interested in how our wind and solar are contributing over the day.”
Rod Munro
24th May 2016
“Love the live feed generation data link. It’s very interesting to see how things change through the course of the day and week. … Cheers and keep up the great work”
Sean Leiper
23rd May 2016
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