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Grace Young, Wattwatchers’ Chief Innovation Officer, is presenting at the EnergyNEXT clean energy event in Sydney on 19 July, 2022. Her topic is Energy Management En Route to Net Zero: Data and the Internet of Things, the Post-Pandemic Reset & the Electrification of Nearly Everything.

The current energy crisis provides consumers with more reason than ever to get engaged in their electricity, and work towards a future where home energy management and smart home are united through technology (and a bit of human effort as well).

With the energy sector in crisis, there’s never been a better time for consumers to take greater control, and homegrown Australian technologies are ready to support them.

A recent scientific paper from the US finds that using hourly carbon calculations will be more accurate compared with annualised-average ‘values’ as intermittently-generated renewables enter the grid. Wattwatchers has used datasets from hundreds of Australian homes to put it to an early test.

When Australia’s main energy system institutions are recognising ‘customer energy resources’, it’s time to get at least a little bit optimistic that real transformation is coming within reach for the electricity system.

Wattwatchers has seen a spike in apartment building owners corporations in Sydney wanting to monitor their common property circuits as a precursor to installing electric vehicle charging.

With action on ‘Net Zero’ surging in Australia and globally, Wattwatchers has been working on better understanding and improving our own carbon footprint, striving for a net positive ‘impact’ on climate change. Here we share our initial assumptions and approach to the carbon equation for our solutions.

Wattwatchers’ Installation Success Engineer Haubert Yauwenas has created this video guide for installing the Wattwatchers flagship device series, the Auditor 6 (Cellular and WiFi versions), for monitoring grid, loads and solar at single-phase sites.

Newly-appointed independent board director Mark Gill is bringing a rare blend of expertise to Australian clean technology scale-up, Wattwatchers Digital Energy.

Australia’s 3 million-plus households with rooftop solar will continue to receive incomplete energy usage data on their power bills after a decision by a key regulator on the ‘Better Bills Guideline’.

The MyTown Microgrid project is a three-year feasibility study to help the Heyfield community in regional Victoria to decide if a microgrid could work for their tiny corner of the vast National Electricity Market (NEM) grid, and to guide other communities exploring similar moves.