Show HN: An interactive map showing live wind farm generation in Great Britain

GB Renewables Map an energy experiment created entirely in my free time (day job is visualisation at Octopus Energy).

It's an interactive map showing live generation for major wind farms in Great Britain, showing what each wind farm is generating both now and in the past, and where that generation is physically located.

Animated weather data is from WeatherLayers and shows current and historic wind conditions on the map, providing context to wind generation around the country.

History mode allows you to go back in time and see wind generation and weather conditions for a particular date and time. It's great for exploring days of record generation, such as the 21.6GW record on January 10th, 2023!

Prediction mode lets you see what wind farms are estimated to be generating using current wind conditions and model based on historic generation and wind speeds. Is a wind farm generating as you expect, or is there something to look into?

An experimental feature allows you to see what future wind farms could be generating today (or in the past!) if they were already built and operational. If you click the "sparkle" button on the map you'll get to see what the upcoming 3.6GW Dogger Bank wind farm is estimated to generate if it was operational today.

There's an "About" section on the site that goes into detail on the various public data sources and how some of the features work. I also document a lot of this on my Twitter @robhawkes if you're curious.

This is just the start and there are many more features to come!

Please let me know your comments and suggestions.

Show HN: An interactive map showing live wind farm generation in Great Britain
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Good question! Dogger Bank is still under construction but I decided to include it on the map for now (it's a constant work in progress). If you click the little "sparkle" button on the right of the map you can see an estimation of what Dogger Bank would be generating today if it was operational.

I'v seen charts (someone posted on HN as a comment) where it shows generated electricity by type: solar, hidro, wind, gas, etc and by hour, for many countries. Anyone can bring up the link?

Unfortunately yes. I'm working on a fix but it looks like the API I use for the generation data wasn't able to handle the influx of visitors. Not much I can do right now but I did upgrade my Vercel account to get a longer timeout at least.

Hoping it'll be resolved soon.

Thanks!