Interestingly, there is also a version to watch French's grid <a href="http://www.gridwatch.templar.co.uk/france/" rel="nofollow">http://www.gridwatch.templar.co.uk/france/</a><p>It looks like France is exporting to neighbouring european countries (including to the UK), the equivalent more than the UK's total current nuclear supply (~7.89GW).<p>I had no idea it was possible to transport such power by submarine link (2GW power to the UK).
I work on collecting (ETL) data of European power data sources and supply them to clients via web service (in almost real time). For the client i work on - wrote cloud based distributed ETL system to collect data from approx 100 importers and exporters of power, gas, wind, nuclear. Its quiet possible to collect this data in real time as EU regulations asks each of them to provide data on their websites. For some of the websites - i use selenium which is much better than using webrequest via http/s
Fascinating, thank you for sharing.<p>As I write this, it appears that the UK grid is running around 30GW, of which about 55% comes from local fossil fuels, 29% nuclear, nearly 10% imported from France and Holland, and a mere 5% or so from the major (non-nuclear) renewable sources.<p>There is an interesting note that coal (only 15% right now) is still the largest contributor to the UK grid overall, but used more in winter because running hours are restricted for environmental reasons so they do more in winter when it's more profitable.<p>I am surprised (and, honestly, disappointed) to see that so little of the total is still drawn from clean, renewable sources after all the concern about both fossil fuel supplies and environmental effects in recent years. Having just been on holiday to a country not a million miles away where they have essentially no native fossil fuels and so almost everything is run on relatively clean renewables, it's clear that we still have a long way to go.
State of the Nordic Power System (Click 'Table' for more information): <a href="http://driftsdata.statnett.no/Web/map/snpscustom" rel="nofollow">http://driftsdata.statnett.no/Web/map/snpscustom</a><p>The data seem to be a few minutes old, and doesn't have history (which would be nice).
UK's load balancing has some quirky features that always fascinated me, like the fact they require a unique calibration for the end of each episode of Eastenders, right after which millions of households put the kettle on.<p><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/britainfromabove/stories/people/teatimebritain.shtml" rel="nofollow">http://www.bbc.co.uk/britainfromabove/stories/people/teatime...</a>
The frequency one would scare me a bit--it is 49.960 as I see this. So long as you can control the entire grid from a central point (not possible in North America, I think--much more complex) it is probably ok.<p>Otherwise, a generator that lags in phase becomes a motor.
This is awesome, thanks.<p>Is it actually up to date and accurate?<p>I wonder if wind player a major role somewhere where they really have a lot of turbines. Like Netherlands or Germany perhaps.<p>Would be really interesting to be able to compare different countries with the same sort of data.
More data than you could possibly want, if your browser can cope with it, is published here: <a href="http://www.bmreports.com/bsp/bsp_home.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.bmreports.com/bsp/bsp_home.htm</a>
Here's a nice video about the UK national grid:<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hC_ZySE_jg8" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hC_ZySE_jg8</a>