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UK Electricity Generation Map

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1. alias_neo ◴[] No.45115354[source]
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

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2. ZenoArrow ◴[] No.45124011[source]
> I wonder, does residential solar with export count towards this sort of thing?

It isn't displayed on this website, or at least not all of them, I checked by looking for an installation that I know exists that is on a feed in tariff and it wasn't shown.

To be fair to the creators of this website, it's probably quite hard to gather and display this type of residential solar information.

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3. alias_neo ◴[] No.45125055[source]
I agree the display part is probably challenging, the exact location likely isn't recorded and the density could make it an issue to show on the map; regarding collecting it, I'd be surprised if there wasn't some public-ish record of it somewhere, we do all have to register with the DNO etc as micro-generators so it'd be interesting to know if someone makes an API with that information available.

Aside from that, my real wonder was whether residential solar is factored into national renewables or if it's simply too little to be worth it.