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\"nemy<\/p>\n

Take a couple of electrical engineers sharing a home, add lockdown boredom, and what you might get is a nifty way of using electricity market information to help customers consume electricity when it\u2019s green. And where their electricity retailer passes on real time wholesale electricity prices, cheap.<\/p>\n

Meet\u00a0nemy<\/a>, the brainchild of Samuel Poustie and Jarman Stephens. Their offering starts very simple: the most basic being an If This Then That<\/a> (IFTTT) integration in conjunction with the free IFTTT phone app that will tell you when renewable sources dominate the grid, according to AEMO\u2019s five-minute updates.<\/p>\n

When lockdown started in Melbourne last year, they\u2019d just switched the energy provider in their shared rental to Amber Electric. With a provider that provides the wholesale price, they decided,<\/p>\n

\u201clet\u2019s try and get some visibility into that price.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It started with getting a smart light globe to go green when it was a good time to use power, and red when there was a price spike, Poustie explained. A price spike is also often indicative of more fossil-fuel generation entering the mix.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

From there, the next step was to look at AEMO data, which publishes price and dispatch on all generators on a five minute cycle.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe go and scrape that information, it\u2019s very convoluted and not very user-friendly, and turn that into useful things for people. For Amber customers, price, but for a lot of other customers, the very important thing is the amount of renewables in the grid.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

So we look at the fuel source – coal will get a cross, solar will get a tick, wind will get a tick – and no matter what retailer they\u2019re with, they can still get that indication of what the carbon impact is of using electricity at every five minute block\u201d, Stephens explained.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

For the more adventurous customer, the IFTTT integration lets more advanced users take nemy\u2019s information and utillise it as a control system for their smart appliances.<\/p>\n

Stephens gives his own fairly straightforward use of nemy: a cheap smart plug operates the dishwasher when the grid is green, and another controls the washing machine.<\/p>\n

\"nemy

Simplicity itself: nemy can act as an input to the IFTTT platform, powering your appliances when the grid is at its greenest<\/p><\/div>\n

\u201cQuite recently, there was a price spike in the five-minute update, so the dishwasher turned off for five minutes, waited, and turned back on. It feels quite futuristic,\u201d he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Proposition For Solar Installers<\/h2>\n

Other customers are using nemy plus ITTT for more advanced load-shifting – pouring electrons into their EV batteries when the grid\u2019s green, for example.<\/p>\n

Stephens pointed out the other aspect of nemy\u2019s approach is their decision to use existing systems like Amazon Alexa and Google Home,<\/p>\n

\u201crather than developing our own ecosystem, where you need a box, pay $1,000, and you need an electrician to put it in the switchboard.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

There\u2019s also a pretty straightforward proposition installers could take advantage of here: doing the setup for solar customers like \u201cmy clueless friend Chris\u201d, who would like to have load shifting and\/or time shifting taken care of, but don’t have the early adopters\u2019 enthusiasm for tinkering with their systems.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve thought about teaming up with installers, because the type of customer installing solar would be interested in the type of electricity they\u2019re using\u201d, Stephens said; adding that it would be \u201cexciting\u201d to team up with installers.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

“But we\u2019re also trying to go mass market here, to push into the millions of Australians. You can get started with just your phone, and it\u2019s free. So you just get notified when it\u2019s really cheap and green, so people can then, without any devices and any setup, get notified that now is a great time to wash their underpants and hang them on the line\u201d, Stephens said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And while other electricity retailers may not provide the detailed information Amber Electric does, no matter what retailer a customer is with, nemy can tell them the carbon impact of using electricity in each five minute block through the day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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