If you’ve been following us for a while, you would know that we do a fair bit of work for, and with, local government. We’ve done energy audits, feasibility studies, solar monitoring, climate training workshops, business sustainability assessments, sustainability roadmaps, climate resilience assessments…and that’s only in the past 12 months! This is because we [...]
If you have a solar system, you would be aware that it doesn’t pump out electricity every minute of every day. However, the amount of sunshine hitting the panels isn’t the only reason that your system might not be working at full capacity. Tandem Energy’s solar system performance monitoring involves a regular check of your system data [...]
Have you considered calculating your carbon footprint? Maybe you are considering becoming carbon neutral. Perhaps you’re starting to think about your emissions reporting requirements. If you are in the supply chain of a larger organisation, you may be required to provide data for when they do their reporting. How soon should you start figuring it [...]
Agrivoltaics is the combination of solar panels and agriculture. It’s a relatively new concept but has been gaining traction over the last 20 years with more and more research showing the benefits. Research in Australia has been limited but is steadily increasing. Benefits of agrivoltaics include: Helping to protect crops and fruit from extreme weather, [...]
Unless you work in a vineyard you have probably never heard of Frolight. It's a fairly recent innovation to prevent frost damage on young vine buds. Our long-term client Henschke Cellars has been trialling it in certain vineyards as an alternative to diesel generated frost fans, since frost fans are noisy and energy intensive. So the [...]
2024 has been a busy year for Tandem Energy. We are proud to announce that we are recertifying for B Corp membership. We are already a B Corp member and there are a surprising number of organisations who reach out to us for help because they see that we are a B Corp and rightly [...]
Thanks to those who read our August newsletter and emailed questions for Mariana, our data scientist. As promised, here are some of the most useful questions, and Mariana’s answers. Brad: When you say we need to embrace tabular data, do you mean spreadsheets? Is there special software we can use to make this easier? [...]
Efficient data collection is the backbone of any data-driven business and the new financial year is a great time to review the way your business collects data. Here are some foundational principles from our data scientist to ensure your data is both useful and manageable: Embrace Tabular Data: Tabular data is the gold standard for [...]
What is carbon accounting? Carbon accounting is the name commonly given to the process of assessing an organisation’s impact on climate change by calculating its emissions of carbon-based greenhouse gases (GHGs). This often means some digging around in your purchasing records and a bit of number crunching, but it doesn’t have to be a hard [...]
South Australia depends on a lot of renewables, such as solar, but what happens at night, or on cloudy days, when the solar panels aren’t generating much energy? Sadly, we have to buy our energy from another source, such as Victoria (nasty coal power!). To avoid this, we can utilise new technology like virtual power [...]