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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
2023 has been a busy year for Tandem Energy, but they say time flies when you’re having fun (saving the world). Here are just some of the projects we’ve worked on this year. We love working with our good friends at City of Adelaide so we’ve done a lot with them including: Energy and resource [...]
In what is a bittersweet moment for us we say goodbye this week to Jack as he moves on to an exciting new position. After 4 years working for Tandem, Jack will now be attempting to effect change from within the Federal Government in his new job working as a Policy Officer in the newly [...]
The Albanese Government has announced a new tax incentive in the May 2023 budget to help small and medium-sized businesses reduce their energy costs through investment in energy efficiency and electrification. The Small Business Energy Incentive is a tax deduction that will be available to businesses with an annual turnover of less than $50 [...]
22 June 2022 The recent developments regarding the Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO) and the east-coast market has generated a significant public interest in understanding the contributing factors prior to AEMO suspending the market last week, and now, preparing to lift the suspension and resume the market. CEO Rachel Brdanovic was approached by the ABC [...]