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Just an FYI, All RTO/ISOs in the US have a variety of dashboards to describe realtime and historical information, as do the Canadian entities. So you can see t

Just an FYI, All RTO/ISOs in the US have a variety of dashboards to describe realtime and historical information, as do the Canadian entities. So you can see the same thing for CAISO, ERCOT, SPP, MISO, PJM, ISO-NE...etc on their websites.

toomuchtodo 5y ago
Check out ElectricityMap.org, they scrape the independent dashboards (CAISO, NYISO, ISO-NE, ERCOT) for generation mix data, anything else (in the US) is pulled from EIA’s balancing authority API with a 6-12 hour lag (ElectricityMap uses machine learning to provide real time estimates based on historical data for data delayed zones, and it is spooky how accurate it is [Chile in particular] when the data backfills and “catches up”). https://app.electricitymap.org https://app.electricitymap.org https://www.eia.gov/electricity/gridmonitor/dashboard/electric_overview/US48/US48 https://www.eia.gov/electricity/gridmonitor/dashboard/electr... Edit: (can’t reply, HN throttling) @mardifoufs https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/hydro-quebec-could-lose-500-million-1.6368244 https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/hydro-quebec-could-l... https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/maine-vote-hydro-quebec-1.6233569 https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/maine-vote-hydro-quebec-1.6233... (NIMBYs in Maine sandbagging export of clean hydro to New England ISOs)
- mardifoufs 5y ago
  Woah Quebec seems to have the lowest (?) Carbon intensity on the map. Hydro power is just amazing, and I'm glad we had very forward looking PMs back in the 60-70s who pushed for massive hydro projects even when the costs were gigantic. There's still so much hydro potential in the province that isn't being used though. Makes me wonder if it would be possible to build up our hydro capacity specifically for export instead of just exporting our surpluses like we do now. Maybe it won't be profitable now, but would it be too energy inefficient to transport much more electricity from the north of the province to further south than New England?
  - ceroxylon 5y ago
    There is a fair amount of missing / misleading data on that map, e.g. Brazil is the 25th largest consumer of coal[0], but the map claims 95+% of Brazil's energy consumption is renewable and lists their coal percentage as "?" [0] https://www.worldometers.info/coal/coal-consumption-by-country/ https://www.worldometers.info/coal/coal-consumption-by-count...
    - toomuchtodo 5y ago
      The data for that link looks like it ends in 2016 for Brazil. ElectricityMap is parsing the data directly from the grid operator. https://www.worldometers.info/coal/brazil-coal/#coal-consumption https://www.worldometers.info/coal/brazil-coal/#coal-consump... https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=49436 https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=49436 ("Brazil largely relies on hydropower for electricity generation; in 2020, hydropower supplied 66% of its electricity demand. Wind and solar generation have grown quickly in recent years and had a combined 11% share of the country’s electricity generation in 2020. Biomass accounted for an 8% share. Fossil fuel-fired plants made up another 12% of electricity generation, while nuclear power accounted for 2%.")
  - liketochill 5y ago
    And yet everyone is critical of current mega projects that are being built now that will benefit future generations. Site C in BC Muskrat falls in NL/Labrador Keeyask in Manitoba. All while We benefit from paid down mega projects from decades ago that our predecessors had the grit to fund and build
    - mardifoufs 5y ago
      Yes that deeply saddens me honestly. I had a friend work on the Site C turbines and what an amazing project. Just massive As an immigrant it's amazing to see the complacency and also the hostility that some here have towards infrastructure development when in my home country it's probably the thing we'd want the most
finiteseries 5y ago
There is a very nice volunteer made one for ERCOT that popped up during the freeze last year, on datadog no less. https://p.datadoghq.com/sb/5c2fc00be-393be929c9c55c3b80b557d08c30787a?from_ts=1646417905932&to_ts=1647022705932&live=true https://p.datadoghq.com/sb/5c2fc00be-393be929c9c55c3b80b557d...
- toomuchtodo 5y ago
  Much nicer than ERCOT's imho.
  - pfdietz 5y ago
    Ercot's is ok, and tells you things like solar and wind production. They're producing nearly 20 GW from wind right at this moment.

toomuchtodo 5y ago

Check out ElectricityMap.org, they scrape the independent dashboards (CAISO, NYISO, ISO-NE, ERCOT) for generation mix data, anything else (in the US) is pulled from EIA’s balancing authority API with a 6-12 hour lag (ElectricityMap uses machine learning to provide real time estimates based on historical data for data delayed zones, and it is spooky how accurate it is [Chile in particular] when the data backfills and “catches up”). https://app.electricitymap.org https://app.electricitymap.org https://www.eia.gov/electricity/gridmonitor/dashboard/electric_overview/US48/US48 https://www.eia.gov/electricity/gridmonitor/dashboard/electr... Edit: (can’t reply, HN throttling) @mardifoufs https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/hydro-quebec-could-lose-500-million-1.6368244 https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/hydro-quebec-could-l... https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/maine-vote-hydro-quebec-1.6233569 https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/maine-vote-hydro-quebec-1.6233... (NIMBYs in Maine sandbagging export of clean hydro to New England ISOs)

mardifoufs 5y ago
Woah Quebec seems to have the lowest (?) Carbon intensity on the map. Hydro power is just amazing, and I'm glad we had very forward looking PMs back in the 60-70s who pushed for massive hydro projects even when the costs were gigantic. There's still so much hydro potential in the province that isn't being used though. Makes me wonder if it would be possible to build up our hydro capacity specifically for export instead of just exporting our surpluses like we do now. Maybe it won't be profitable now, but would it be too energy inefficient to transport much more electricity from the north of the province to further south than New England?
- ceroxylon 5y ago
  There is a fair amount of missing / misleading data on that map, e.g. Brazil is the 25th largest consumer of coal[0], but the map claims 95+% of Brazil's energy consumption is renewable and lists their coal percentage as "?" [0] https://www.worldometers.info/coal/coal-consumption-by-country/ https://www.worldometers.info/coal/coal-consumption-by-count...
  - toomuchtodo 5y ago
    The data for that link looks like it ends in 2016 for Brazil. ElectricityMap is parsing the data directly from the grid operator. https://www.worldometers.info/coal/brazil-coal/#coal-consumption https://www.worldometers.info/coal/brazil-coal/#coal-consump... https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=49436 https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=49436 ("Brazil largely relies on hydropower for electricity generation; in 2020, hydropower supplied 66% of its electricity demand. Wind and solar generation have grown quickly in recent years and had a combined 11% share of the country’s electricity generation in 2020. Biomass accounted for an 8% share. Fossil fuel-fired plants made up another 12% of electricity generation, while nuclear power accounted for 2%.")
- liketochill 5y ago
  And yet everyone is critical of current mega projects that are being built now that will benefit future generations. Site C in BC Muskrat falls in NL/Labrador Keeyask in Manitoba. All while We benefit from paid down mega projects from decades ago that our predecessors had the grit to fund and build
  - mardifoufs 5y ago
    Yes that deeply saddens me honestly. I had a friend work on the Site C turbines and what an amazing project. Just massive As an immigrant it's amazing to see the complacency and also the hostility that some here have towards infrastructure development when in my home country it's probably the thing we'd want the most

finiteseries 5y ago

There is a very nice volunteer made one for ERCOT that popped up during the freeze last year, on datadog no less. https://p.datadoghq.com/sb/5c2fc00be-393be929c9c55c3b80b557d08c30787a?from_ts=1646417905932&to_ts=1647022705932&live=true https://p.datadoghq.com/sb/5c2fc00be-393be929c9c55c3b80b557d...

toomuchtodo 5y ago
Much nicer than ERCOT's imho.
- pfdietz 5y ago
  Ercot's is ok, and tells you things like solar and wind production. They're producing nearly 20 GW from wind right at this moment.