We take the deliberate approach in designing our software together to ensure that it speaks for itself.

We do this so that each client can form their own view of the market, with the assistance of our software packages.  In this small way we're helping to democratise the electricity market - and hence to make it more sustainable.

On occasions, our efforts to make the electricity market understandable have come to the attention of the press, leading to a mention in the news.  The following is a record of some of these times:

2009

Monday
7th September

Clancy Yeates references analysis performed with our NEM-Review software in this article in the "Sydney Morning Herald".

Monday
2nd February

Following the press coverage recorded the previous week about the heatwave & blackouts across south-eastern Australia, we also received this mention in an article in "Business Spectator".

Thursday
29th January

The massive heatwave across south-eastern Australia in late January and early February drove demand to unprecendented levels, sent prices soaring, stretched available supplies to the limit and led to involuntary load shedding - as reported several times in The Age, and elsewhere (such as in "Power hits dangerous low") on the first day of load shedding.

2008

Friday
25th July

Demand peak and price spikes across the NEM were referenced in The Australian Financial Review in the article "Victorian outage sent power prices soaring".

Tuesday
24th June

Price spikes in Queensland on Sunday evening and Monday morning, as alerted via NEM-Watch SMS alerts, were referenced in The Australian Financial Review in the article "Cold snap overheats electricity market".

Tuesday
18th March

Price and demand data updated by NEM-Watch was referenced in The Australian in the article "Electricity Prices Overheat".

Thursday
13th March

Our review of volatility in the NEM was referenced in The Australian Financial Review in the article "Power upgrade delay may cost energy users billions".

Monday
25th February

High prices shown in Queensland on 23rd and 24th February (through NEM-Watch) were referenced in The Australian Financial Review in the article "Power price surge gets users hot, bothered".

2007

Saturday
8th December

Price spikes to VOLL in Queensland were referenced in The Australian in the article "Queensland Power Prices Surge".

Monday
19th November

Price spikes to VOLL in Victoria the previous Saturday (a rare occurrence on a weekend) were referenced in The Australian in the article "Electricity price hits maximum level allowed".

Monday
17th September

Not quite "in the news" but we thought it worth referencing here that we'd noted that NEM-ReviewTM had been used to facilitate analysis leading to this paper highlighting opportunities for investment in Australian generation capacity, presented at an Australian Government briefing on the topic in Guangzhou, China.

Monday
23rd July

The high level of demand growth in recent years was highlighted in The Australian Financial Review through the article "Cold comfort for summer power".

Thursday
21st June

The amazingly low levels of Instantaneous Reserve Plant Margin delivered to the market on 19th and 20th June were referenced in The Australian Financial Review in the article "Power prices jump in eye of the storm".

February

Not quite "in the news", but we thought it worth referencing here that we'd noted that the usefulness of our software was highlighted by Fitch Ratings (one of our valued clients) in their "Australia & New Zealand Energy & Utility Outlook 2007", which was published in 2007 and presented across the country.

2006

Tuesday
7th February

Near record demand levels in NSW and QLD were referenced in The Australian in the article "Smart new meters to cut power".

Friday
3rd February

Near record demand levels in NSW and QLD were referenced in The Age in the article "Heat shorts NSW, QLD power supplies".

Monday
9th January

In an alternative look at what energy users can do to reduce their average cost of energy, our role in the supply of the deSide® software was highlighed by The Age in the article "Power to cut out the middleman".

2005
and earlier

We did not keep records of how our software had been referenced in the press prior to 2006.