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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.

COVID-19 impacts are the key driver for a 10-15% price rise across the Wattwatchers hardware range, while subscriptions stay at the same rate.

The Wattwatchers team is welcoming our colleague Grace Young as she resumes in her role as Chief Innovation Officer. A familiar person with a fresh identity.

Real-time monitoring, over-the-air reporting and lots of data are fundamentals of a low-cost ‘grid visualisation’ strategy, especially to focus on voltage management and its interrelationship with grid stability and power quality for users.