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UK Electricity Generation Map

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173 points zeristor | 1 comments | 03 Sep 25 10:49 UTC | HN request time: 0.2s | source
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gdubya ◴[03 Sep 25 11:55 UTC] No.45114691[source]▶
Very interesting! Who made this?
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1. dannyfraser ◴[03 Sep 25 13:09 UTC] 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.