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 threadRuss GarrettFeb 5
@robhawkes looks great! (you need to update the about page now though!)
Show threadRuss GarrettFeb 5
@robhawkes the battery view is really interesting, but I guess you need to work out a way of distinguishing export vs import on the map now
Show threadRobin Hawkes ⚡️
@russss Indeed! I have some ideas but at some point I'm concerned I'm massively overloading the map so I need to take a step back and think about how to approach import vs. export. It also makes the curtailment and turn-up actions hard to make sense of visually.
Feb 5 at 10:57amWeb
Show threadRuss GarrettFeb 5

@robhawkes yeah it's a tricky one... I wonder if some kind of circular bar graph visualisation might work.

Also it's currently showing curtailment numbers for storage plants which I don't think makes sense

Show threadRobin Hawkes ⚡️Feb 5

@russss I've wondered this too (about storage). I mean technically it's a reduction in output vs. reported PN, plus it often goes even further into the import.

In my head it still makes sense to count that as curtailment (or at least turn-down) as it's still an accepted bid to reduce output (or soak up demand) and reduce pressure on a constraint.

Certainly needs some thought and tweaking though.

Show threadRobin Hawkes ⚡️Feb 5
@russss Happy to get suggestions on how to improve it though. It was melting my brain a bit so I decided to just go live as-is, if a bit confusing.