2y ago

Electricity Map - Live Map of Electricity Generation by Region

app.electricitymaps.com

Live 24/7 CO₂ emissions of electricity consumption

Let me know if this isnt appropriate for this community. Still new here, but I live in a place with a highly variable electricity grid.

Sometimes we're running mostly on coal, othertimes a good amount of wind generation kicks in and our grid runs cleaner. I've been using this site as a means of tracking when our grid is running on more renewable resources in order to make decisions about energy use (mostly when to plug my car in).

Keep in mind, there is a certain amount of estimation and assumptions going on here but the site shows stats like current generation, use, percent renewable, co2 emission estimates, etc.

Thought it might be useful to folks. Theres an app too for those interested.

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This website makes very different assumptions about carbon intensity between different countries (and extremely dated ones) and doesn't justify the selection at all. Use it with care and ignore their gCO2/kWh as anything other than a vague guideline.
- Makes sense. I think its cobbled together with what info and data the designer has access to.
  The utility in my region used to report percent generation information themselves on their website but stopped. This website taps into that same data so I use it as a general indicator of when renewable generation is high.
  
  I think its cobbled together with what info and data the designer has access to.
  This doesn't really explain picking different sources for gCO2e/kWh for different countries using the same technology (especially when it is provably inaccurate in some instances, live more accurate data is available and it has been pointed out to the author). There is a bit of politics going on, which is a shame because it's otherwise excellent work.
  Useful overview, but grain of salt for any specific conclusions (especially between countries or in times/places where it is "estimating").
  Many regions have a country-specific site which often has a bit more detail and is more accurate
  https://opennem.org.au/
  https://energy-charts.info/
  https://www.caiso.com/Pages/default.aspx
Thank you very much. This is really helpful.
Great website, thanks for sharing!
Take a look at South Australia, the graphs are funny, that's what happens when you have more Solar then you know what to do with
Depending on where you are following the sources from this website and doing a bit of digging can get you more accurate data especially for things like local carbon gen.
- Ive heard the battery storage there is one of the largest in the world too?

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