by unglaublich
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- Nice, and on a global and interconnect level there's:
https://app.electricitymaps.com/
by HPsquared
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- Is there any way to turn off the animation? I'm getting about 5 FPS viewing on mobile.
by dreamcompiler
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- TIL there are no coal plants in the UK. How long has this been true?
by nonethewiser
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- Solar has a count of 1354 out of a total of 3047. So 44%.
Solar accounts for ~5% of the actual output per https://www.iea.org/countries/united-kingdom/electricity
and https://www.renewableuk.com/news-and-resources/press-release...
edit: change source from https://grid.iamkate.com/
- Hah neat, didn't know there was a 15MW battery about 15 minute walk from me.
Here's a kinda related site that I think is neat: https://www.gridwatch.templar.co.uk/
- The main page https://www.energydashboard.co.uk/live is just as interesting as the map that's linked to.
by newyankee
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- I really wish a simulated version with very granular transmission and distribution capacity for different type of producers and consumers, from large plants to individual houses to community solar or agrivoltaics could exist.
This might be very helpful in understanding how to correctly allocate the infrastructure to enable distributed production at the right place. What kind of reversible flow is possible ? What types of electrical equipment is needed etc.
I feel finally we are at a place where grid cost might be much higher than solar and batteries when amortized over 20-25 years.
- Wind generation is king, apparently. I'm curious what the imports consist of, presumably natural gas but it's not indicated; however it doesn't seem to have that big of a reliance.
by CraigJPerry
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- Never realised just how much diversity of power generation there is on my doorstep in Lanarkshire. I live basically in the middle of nowhere, this is not a dense population centre although several of the sites are dedicated to industrial processes.
Great presentation of this data, i just lost 15 mins satisfying curiosity. Thanks :-)
- The minimalist Alberta Electricity System Operator dashboard is far superior:
http://ets.aeso.ca/ets_web/ip/Market/Reports/CSDReportServle...
- This is excellent. Led me to discover this mini hydro generator: https://courtfarmdorset.co.uk/water-wheel/
- Is it me or the size of the circles is proprtional to the installed capacity instead of the generated capacity (i.e. a 1200MW nuclear plant is as big as a 1200MW wind turbine, which seems not right to me)
by throw0101d
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- For those in Ontario, Canada, see perhaps:
* https://www.ieso.ca/power-data § Supply
* https://www.ieso.ca/market-data
The output for individual generators is available at:
* https://sygration.rodanenergy.com/gendata/today.html
(AIUI, historical data available for a fee.)
- Related, in the Netherlands we have https://energieopwek.nl/ which shows a chart of power sources (not all are selected, press top right to add more) and shows that the vast majority of electricity is solar/wind, even in winter, with non-renewables being used as the baseline.
- This looks great! I've been planning on adding NYISO power data to the NYC Dashboard (https://dash.hudsonshipping.co), so this is very encouraging to see! I unfortunately don't think the US has such granular data - I love seeing the interconnectors to other countries.
- We have this in Taiwan but it's uglier and some moron put `user-select: none` on the table. But anyway: https://www.taipower.com.tw/d006/loadGraph/loadGraph/genshx_...
by alias_neo
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- Interesting that the city I live in has basically nothing apart from a single, relatively small "battery".
I wonder, does residential solar with export count towards this sort of thing?
Presumably residential export is fairly small relative to everything else, but anecdotally, I export enough daily to run another home the size of mine.
EDIT: Clarify a sentence
- It would be nice if the totals included total power produced by the selected subset.
by lloydatkinson
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- Always impressed with these because the disjointed energy APIs that exist in the UK are quit honestly the worst APIs I’ve ever had the misfortune of trying to use.
- Are there electricity generation maps with the same level of granularity for other countries? Or is the UK unusual for providing data for each power plant?
- Apparently there's a 400 MW flywheel near Oxford! It's listed as battery which is close enough I guess.
- Most of it is still Wind Farm on shore, how Off shore is not at least 50% of UK energy output is completely beyond me.
by nonethewiser
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- Why is there a battery category? That does not seem to fit with electricity GENERATION but I may be missing something.
- Some kind of form of this energy data visualization shows up on hacker news every 6 months or so ... why is that?
by NooneAtAll3
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- list of energy sources doesn't have scrollbar - so on a device with not enough screen height it's impossible to read the whole list without using browser zoom
- Wow! The app is just as fast as parliament!
by alexnorton
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- See also the GB Renewables Map by Robin Hawkes which has a nice wind overlay:
https://renewables-map.robinhawkes.com/
- Very interesting! Who made this?
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