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 [...]
A battery big enough to provide power for a whole street - seems like a great idea, hey? Unfortunately the numbers don't always stack up, and any installation of a battery 'in front of meter' (as opposed to 'behind the meter' or at one site only for that site's benefit) needs to be carefully scrutinised. [...]
Australia has a problem with fast fashion. The rise of companies such as Temu and Shein have created a situation where people are buying clothes and disposing of them, sometimes unworn, because they are so cheap. This causes a multitude of problems: Piles of unwanted clothes in Atacama Desert, Chile (credit: https://phys.org/) Greenhouse [...]
Tandem Energy would like to welcome Mariana Suarez Cruz. Mariana is an international student from Colombia pursuing a master's degree in Data Science at Adelaide University. Mariana says “Before coming to Australia, I worked in the banking industry in Colombia for several years. During that time, I was exposed to vast amounts of data daily, [...]
Do you work in a lab, or fast food? Surprisingly, these two industries have a lot in common when it comes to single use plastic. We recently completed a net zero pathway for a client and learned a lot about single use labware in the process. Admittedly, it’s a bit niche, but we thought it [...]
Late last year, the ABC published an article about the dangers of extreme heat – Australia’s silent killer. It’s an important read because extreme temperatures are becoming more common and, thanks to the already locked-in levels of climate change, will soon be “normal”. What can we do about it? Not much (although reducing emissions as [...]
"Wish-cycling" is where we put things in the recycling bin, in the hopes that it can be recycled, without finding out whether that item is really recyclable. We feel like we’ve done the right thing and now it’s someone else’s problem, right? Yeah, we’ve all done it. Many products are physically recyclable, and the labels [...]