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UK Electricity Generation Map

(www.energydashboard.co.uk)
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1. gdubya ◴[] No.45114691[source]
Very interesting! Who made this?
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2. zeristor ◴[] No.45115012[source]
I don’t know.

I had noticed the Norway interconnect was running at 0 MW, and I was trying different sites to see if it was the data feed.

It wasn’t, it seems Norway NO2 area has 50% water levels in its hydro dams, the rest seem OK but NO2 region is the one which exports power to UK, Germany, and Denmark.

The little animations of power moving along lines are very cool.

3. dannyfraser ◴[] No.45115297[source]
A bit of digging in the T&Cs, Companies House, and LinkedIn pointed me to an individual working for the NHS who has put this together as a side project.

I work in this space (https://www.woodmac.com/), mostly with natural gas data but have worked on power in the past so I'm always interested to see if it's anyone I know (in this case it isn't).

Building something like this isn't really that difficult - all of the data is publicly accessible and if you can transform it and pull it into a database and build a front-end app then you're pretty much there. The developer has stated that the main source for this is https://bmrs.elexon.co.uk/, but other good sources of energy data (across Europe) are https://transparency.entsoe.eu/ for power and https://transparency.entsog.eu/ for gas. Also useful are https://alsi.gie.eu/ for LNG imports and https://agsi.gie.eu/ for gas storage.