Tools for the Energy Information Age
Our sustainability and community networks director Murray Hogarth joined a panel session at the Alliance to Save Energy Summer Study in Sydney (February 27-March 1, 2013) and immersed himself in three whole days of energy efficiency and decentralised energy. Murray's slides form his presentation to the 'Knowledge is Power' session on the … [Read more...]
The team at Wattwatchers are very happy to be shortlisted for the GE ecomagination challenge down under, covering Australia and New Zealand, with our entry 'The Smart Grid for Consumers'. The formal name of this innovative contest, which began in the US, is the GE ecomagination Challenge Australia & New Zealand: Low Carbon Solutions. Our … [Read more...]
How often do you hear of a technologically complex new electronic device with global applications for a vast mass market – in this case smart energy management - being invented from scratch, assembled, proved up and launched in Australia? That stuff happens in California’s Silicon Valley, doesn’t it? Or out of the hi-tech industrial … [Read more...]
Here's a little heads up. Wattwatchers has been busy with the good folk at Energy Tracker coming up with a great new combo - a professional energy management solution that can bridge the larger Commercial and Industrial, SME, SOHO and switched on residential markets. You can see what's taken shape at http://energytracker.com.au But … [Read more...]
Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard went on the front foot against rising electricity prices yesterday (August 7) in a widely reported speech to the Energy Policy Institute of Australia. The full speech is here. With respect, there's a lot that Wattwatchers technology can do to help change the power paradigm of the nation. Here's some … [Read more...]
10 July 2012 – Wattwatchers today announced it has been selected as one of the top 30 cleantech companies in the Australian Clean Technologies Competition 2012 which is part of the international Cleantech Open competition. http://wattwatchers.com.au Australian CleanTech Managing Director John O’Brien said the top 30 had been selected from a … [Read more...]
Watching your daily watts may not be everyone’s cup of tea. And I have a kettle that goes on the gas stovetop when I want a cuppa anyhow. That said, however, it’s amazing what having real-time data on electricity use literally at your fingertips tells you about how those nasty quarterly power bills come about. When you have a household of … [Read more...]
If smarter energy use for a clean energy future is what you want, how important is accurate, readily available and well-targeted data? Hold that thought. The Australian Government is busy creating a whole new suite of acronyms in the domain of energy saving, with a funding pool of $340 million up for grabs. It’s great news for energy … [Read more...]
Having recently attended an official briefing for the proposed National Energy Saving Initiative (NESI), a prediction: We'll all be waiting quite a while for the single most sensible and important clean energy future reform still undone in Australia. For mine, a market-based national energy efficiency scheme with tradable certificates makes … [Read more...]
Accurate customer-side energy management tools now come with WiFi communications, networking via the Internet and a ‘light touch’. Sydney-based technology developer Wattwatchers launched its new website today (January 30th, 2012), showcasing its range of low-cost, Class 1-accurate and real-time energy management devices. The … [Read more...]
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