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The link shows a photo of my grandad with the original R2-D2 he built for the first Star Wars film… Jack was a master sheet metal worker, and was roped into using his skills on an …

Those are NESO (system operator) grid boundaries. The colours represent the forecast flow of energy over each boundary in relation to the capacity of each boundary. Green means lot…

Thanks! The ultimate fix is to finish upgrading the aging grid. There are other things that can improve the situation however, such as building wind farms away from these constrain…

Yup! Looks like it'll be some form of regional demand flexibility, similar to what suppliers like Octopus Energy (disclaimer: my employer) and others have experimented with over th…

Not at all, my stuff is very niche and the other websites and dashboards do a much better job at filling in the higher-level context.

Indeed! That's including available wind generation that was curtailed (not used) due to transmission constraints. So it's the actual output plus the amount of output that was "lost…

I shed a little more light on the context via my map which you can also find linked on the page: https://renewables-map.robinhawkes.com

Thanks! Always a surprise and a pleasure seeing my stuff on here

Oh cool, that's my website! Let me know if you have any questions about it and I'll do my best to answer them.

Thanks!

That's correct, it's using data from Open Infrastructure Map which is itself based on OpenStreetMap data. That's a good idea to zoom in further to show them off a bit more.

Oh wow that's a blast from the past, feels like a lifetime ago! And thank you.

Ah yeah the FAQ is very out of date and in need of a full rewrite. I'll get to that eventually. And you're right, I'll make sure to add some sort of glossary and perhaps also expla…

Thanks! I would love to make this something that works beyond GB though right now that would require a fundamental change to the way things are set up. It's on my list though, so o…

I actually have plans to include Ireland and Northern Ireland once I get the GB side nailed down. The data seems to be mostly available though I'd have to really think about how to…

I'll make sure to get the about page updated soon, it's been a bit neglected with being so focussed on the recent upgrades. Definitely a lot I can explain better, and also ways tha…

Yup, that's exactly it! When you zoom in you get to see the wind farms and wind turbines using data from the amazing Open Infrastructure Map [0]. I also show the cables for the off…

Tech stack is a mix of things, but the big-ticket items: - Dagster for data pipeline - Parquet files for data format - Cloudflare R2 for data storage - DuckDB for data processing -…

The lines are sort of arbitrary in a geographic sense as in reality they are defined based on the intersection with the schematic version of the transmission network [0]. Though ye…

No worries. The Detailed System Prices dataset is lagged by a couple hours so try going back in time. The simplest answer I can give is that assets place bids and a volume of energ…

Yup! I have two ways to do it right now, the first is to click the plug-looking button on the map and this'll switch into curtailment mode to filter the assets that are currently b…

The most time and energy has been getting my head around the source data [0] and industry-specific nuances. In terms of stack I have a self-hosted Dagster [1] data pipeline that pe…

Hey! And thank you 1) Absolutely agree. The current approach for the boundaries is a quick hack until I can implement something more sophisticated. Safe to say an update is already…

Thank you