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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 warm, light wind spring ahead for the NEM

A strong El Niño and an unusually stable Antarctic polar vortex are setting up a spring signal of light winds, elevated solar output, and a real risk of high-intensity heatwaves for the NEM.   This forecast could be a major flip to what the National Electricity Market (NEM) has experienced so far during Winter 2026. On 1 July 2026, the NEM […]

Habagat and successive typhoons trigger widespread flooding in the Philippines

Three consecutive weeks of enhanced southwest monsoon (Habagat) and back-to-back typhoons have flooded Luzon and the Visayas, grounding flights, triggering distribution power outages, cutting off transport corridors, and raising landslide risk across mining-dense provinces like Benguet and the Cordillera. The disruption is far from over with PAGASA expecting the monsoon to remain in place until […]

Australia’s Spring 2026 Bushfire Outlook: Increased Risk Across Seven States and Territories

Fire agencies, land managers and businesses are being urged to prepare as the AFAC spring seasonal bushfire outlook, released on August 19, 2026, warns of elevated bushfire risk across Australia this season. The outlook identifies above-average fire danger across seven states and territories, with conditions driven by a combination of elevated fuel loads, an El Niño […]

Businesses under pressure: how this powerful high will affect Australian industries

A very strong high pressure system centred over Tasmania will impact southern and eastern Australia’s weather over the coming days. How strong is this high pressure system? Mean Sea Level Pressure (MSLP) has already reached 1039.3 hPa at Ouse, Tasmania on Sunday morning, and is forecast to peak at 1041 or 1042 hPa on Monday […]