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

Post by allendoerfer » Thu, Apr 27, 2023, 1:25 AM UTC

Symbiote wrote: post #76

giarc wrote: post #33

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Sorry but isn't 'UK' and 'solar installation' an odd couple? My perception, based upon 40 years of western media consumption is that it's hardly sunny in the UK. I'm ready to be corrected though :)

Annual sunshine is around 1300 hours in Glasgow, 1400 hours in Manchester, 1500 hours in Birmingham, 1700 hours in London and Paris, 2500 hours in Rome and 3500 hours in Cairo. So it's not so sunny, especially as you go north, but films/TV do exaggerate the problem. "I'm from London" regularly gets a comment about terrible weather, "I'm from Paris" does not. There's very little solar power in Scotland, as you'd expec…

Post by blitzar » Thu, Apr 27, 2023, 10:48 AM UTC

robhawkes wrote: post #30

bulletsvshumans wrote: post #29

Really illustrates the potential benefits of offshore wind farms. It seems like there's a large overall difference between wind speeds on the land and in the water, especially far off coast.

One of the most interesting findings from building this was to see just how important a distributed wind energy system is. The new offshore mega-projects like Dogger Bank are going to make a huge difference, and more onshore development will help with localised generation as well (avoiding transmission capacity issues, etc). It's been fascinating to watch the various weather patterns over time to see where the gaps a…

Post by sasquatch2000 » Thu, Apr 27, 2023, 1:02 PM UTC

Post by wjdp » Fri, Apr 28, 2023, 11:27 AM UTC

robhawkes wrote: post #15

wjdp wrote: post #13

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Getting {"error":"Missing generation data"} now

Yeah, sorry about that! Turns out the Elexon API I use for the generation data doesn't like being on the HN front page. Lesson learnt that I should add a proxy store between their API and the map.