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 ⚡️Feb 5

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

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 threadjwheare
@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?
Feb 5 at 11:39amWeb
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.