This report covers the initial lessons learnt from the project including a situational assessment in relation to COVID19, framing insights and outputs of the first stakeholder workshop.
Report extract
The My Energy Marketplace (MEM) project, led by Wattwatchers Digital Energy, is an Australia-wide initiative to develop and scale-up a new ‘app store for energy’ technology platform and business model to support the smart transition to a cleaner, fairer, more resilient and affordable energy system.
Supported by grant funding from ARENA, the project is underpinned by the Australia-wide deployment of subsidised smart energy monitoring (and in some cases control technologies) to 5,000 homes and small businesses, and 250 schools.
This is the MEM project’s first 6-month Milestone period, so ‘Lessons Learnt’ at this stage are preliminary—what we are calling ‘early take-outs’, backed by ‘framing insights’ that guided project design—and will be expanded over the 3-year life of the project. This document is the Public Version of the report, and Wattwatchers has also provided ARENA with a Confidential Addendum to cover work-in-progress that will be advanced further before being shared publicly.
This Public Version covers an introduction to the project itself and our initial ‘Lessons Learnt’ overview. It also includes a summary of outputs from the first stakeholder workshop held for the MEM on 20 Feb 2020, shortly before the COVID-19 crisis triggered major economic and societal shutdowns in Australia, and globally, with inevitable impacts on the MEM project.