Background reading on energy markets
How the wholesale market sets the price, how that price reaches your account, and how load shifting fits in, within your tariff or on the spot market. Each page stands alone, but they are written to be read in sequence.
How the market, your charges and your options fit together
Start with the market, then your charges, then what tariff and spot exposure each mean. All of these come back to this background.
01 The NEM Explained
How Australia’s wholesale market works: bidding, dispatch, 5-minute settlement, price caps, negative pricing and regional pricing.
02 Electricity Tariffs Explained
How a C&I energy account is built (energy, demand, network, environmental) and which parts respond to when you use electricity.
03 Maximum Demand Explained
How the peak demand charge works, why it is separate from TOU and wholesale pricing, and how structures are changing.
04 What is Load Shifting?
What demand response means: load shifting, peak avoidance and dispatch of generation and storage, and when a site is a good candidate.
05 Applied to a Treatment Plant
How the same principles translate to specific WWTP assets: effluent pumping, blower control, biogas dispatch, solar and battery.
The tool behind the numbers
How the spot price forecast works and how it is tested against AEMO forecasts. The price engine that lets the controller look ahead.
Where to from here
See the process
How price-responsive control runs inside the plant, five minutes at a time.
Get a specific answer
Fastest way to a specific answer is a conversation about your plant.