Robin Hawkes ⚡️Feb 5

It's here! All power assets are now live on my GB Renewables Map ⚡

That's right, it's not just wind farms any more. Now you can see live and historic data for gas power plants, nuclear, grid batteries, biomass, pumped hydro and even a bit of solar.

Wind farms are still the default for now, though you can enable as many or as few of the other fuel types and your selection will be remembered when you come back to the website.

It's already live so go play for yourself:
https://renewables-map.robinhawkes.com/

Show threadRobin Hawkes ⚡️

There are numerous other updates as well:

⛔ Click the plug button to see a curtailment view, now including turn-up and a better visual representation of turn-down and turn-up actions

ℹ️ Tooltips include loads more detail about fuel type and balancing actions

☢️ Each fuel type can be toggled using the map buttons

🧠 Map state is remembered when you reload or revisit the website

✨ Lots of new and under construction power assets are now on the map

Feb 5 at 10:47amWeb
Show threadRobin Hawkes ⚡️Feb 5

↕️ Summary of balancing actions at the top of the map

🚦 Grid boundaries and constraints shown using a traffic light system

And I'm only getting started!

This update was the original goal of creating the map a few years ago. Now it's here I can shift focus to all the other ideas I have for it…

Oh, and there's a new feedback button at the top. Please use it to let me know of any issues you find (there will be plenty) or suggestions to help improve this resource for everyone else.

Show threadRobin Hawkes ⚡️Feb 5

I'd also like to thank you for all the support and encouragement as I build this free resource in my free time (yup, this isn't my job).

Honestly, it's been an incredible motivator and the discussions over the years have taught me a huge amount that has only made the map better for everyone.

Until the next update!

Show threadscvalexFeb 5
@robhawkes Petition to change the color of biomass to a reddish hue because it's mostly the Drax and the Drax isn't green in any way a normal person would understand green.
Show threadRobin Hawkes ⚡️Feb 5

@scvalex I've wondered the same thing, I think all the colours can be changed if I'm honest.

Perhaps biomass can be a poo brown to match the colour of the fuel pellets.

Show threadscvalexFeb 5

@robhawkes Brown seems reasonable.

Also, amazing project! I've been sending the link around to my friends in the UK.

Show threadCleethorpes Info Bot   Feb 5
@robhawkes This is one of the best websites I've seen in a long time. You've certainly put the hours in to this. Excellent work, really interesting and educational too.
I see there's a link to this from the Octopus website - perhaps you could include a 'Fan Club' page for the 4 wind assets (it seems a black art)!
Show threadjwheareFeb 5
@robhawkes great work, well done for shipping! A question about grid boundaries. Do the percentages indicate generation over demand, or something else? Also, what does normalise do?
Show threadjwheareFeb 5
@robhawkes I worked out what normalise means, scratch that :)
Show threadRobin Hawkes ⚡️Feb 5

@jwheare Thanks! The % is a simple boundary flow (without subtracting curtailment) vs. boundary limit taken from the day-ahead forecasts by NESO

I'm currently working on a better way of calculating this with other datasets.

Show threadSimon BrookeFeb 5
@robhawkes I'm particularly impressed by the curtailment filter! That really demonstrates where the grid lacks capacity. In a rational economy, we'd be moving energy intensive industries to those places.