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.
energy-charts is great for Germany, but has some issues with other countries. The Netherlands are a great example. There was a recent residential solar boom, which means power plants are shut down. energy-charts displays this as a lower load and is not able to show the added solar. Obviously this is wrong. However the prices are intressting and accurate.
It’s not great for germany. All coal is assumed to be as dirty as the dirtiest lignite, utility solar is assumed to have the same lifetime and embodied carbon as it did in the 2000s, german gas is mysteriously assumed to be 20% worse than gas elsewhere no matter which plants are actually running (although still only half of the real emissions including fugitive methane) and it is not good at accounting for residential or commercial solar there either.
Im jealous of all the progress countries are making. In my province theyre outlawing the use of coal by 2030. So the plan? Theyre going to convert all the coal plants…to oil.
Great.
Sorry, but where in the world is Exxon in full control of the government?
Its Canada. Our utility is literally a monopoly in my province which means they can get away with almost anything. It sucks. The good news is rooftop solar is picking up quickly.