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Energy Demand and Trading Developments

Energy Demand and Trading Developments

Weatherzone has been a leader in providing high-resolution forecasts to Australian energy generators and traders for the past decade.

The focus of the company in the past 12 months has been to invest in further upgrades to our market-leading Opticast™ forecast system, whilst rolling out at a weather station network to provide our clients with the most up-to-date observations available.

Opticast™ is an hourly resolution forecast model, providing temperature, humidity, wind and solar information for use by clients that are involved in the National Electricity Market (NEM).

Independent third party evaluation of Opticast™ has shown in to be the most accurate for the NEM. This is backed up by the use of Opticast™ by the market regulator, AEMO.

To keep Opticast™ as the market leader, Weatherzone scientists are now updating this model at 10-minute intervals to capture any unanticipated spikes or drops in temperature (and other parameters), which may impact on demand.

Weatherzone’s new weather station network also provides observations at a 1-minute interval to our clients, so they know first that a heat-breaking cool change has just arrived.

Weatherzone is committed to providing the most advanced energy demand forecasts to our clients both in Australia and abroad.

Read more about our Energy Services and Opticast™.

Latest news

Satisfy your weather obsession with these news headlines from around the nation, and the world.

A very wet weekend ahead for NSW

Rainfall is set to intensify over the weekend and early next week, with hundreds of millimetres in just three days possible across parts of the central NSW coastline.  The heavy rainfall forecast at the end of this week will follow a prolonged period of rainfall which began on Tuesday, generated by a coastal trough lingering […]

Perth records the sunniest and driest seven months on record

Perth just registered its sunniest and driest October-to-April period on record despite a welcome burst of rain on Tuesday.   Summer and the surrounding months are typically the sunniest and driest time of year in Perth as cold fronts shift further south and rain-shielding high pressure systems become the dominant synoptic feature over southwestern Australia.    […]

NSW soaking has begun

Rain has begun falling across parts of NSW and it is here to stay for a while, with the potential for hundreds of millimetres to fall along the central NSW coastline.   The image below shows thick cloud, rain and thunderstorms stretching from northwest NSW through to the central coastline on Tuesday afternoon. A line […]

Decent rain en route to bone-dry southwest WA

Welcome rain is coming to the parched southwest WA this week, possibly including Perth and Bunbury which are both having their driest 7 months on record.  Many locations in the southwest will see the driest April on record, with much of this rainfall likely to contribute to May’s totals, as a cold front approaches the […]