Electricity Map Reviews and Details

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• Spain just became one of Europe's cheapest power markets. Here is how

  Trading across borders seems to be a part of this story. If your local price is high you can import, if it's low you can export. If you're at the end of a grid and/or you transmission cap it is limited your price has the possibility to go higher or lower without that damping mechanism. Electricitymaps has a pricing layer which seems to show central Europe moving in sync when I randomly check it:... - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago

• An overview of Google Cloud Carbon Footprint

  The Electricity Maps will give you more detailed information about the energy used in each region, to help you determine you choices. - Source: dev.to / 4 months ago

• Ireland shuts last coal plant, becomes 15th coal-free country in Europe

  No. Our biggest interconnect is with France which is 72% nuclear. Currently importing 3GW from them. Our second biggest is with Norway which is 88% hydroelectric. Currently importing 1.7GW from them. We're importing 0.2GW from Belgium which is partly gas and partly nuclear. We're exporting power to Ireland, The Netherlands and Denmark. This accounts for 6-7% of current UK grid power. [1] https://grid.iamkate.com/... - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago

• Germany's Merz Admits Nuclear Exit Was Strategic Mistake

  Yet the carbone intensity of energy production in Germany is among the worst in Europe. And France (nuclear powered, no particular huge investment in a green transition) beats them easily in both price and carbon. https://app.electricitymaps.com/map/live/fifteen_minutes. - Source: Hacker News / 7 months ago

• Britain has wasted £1,112,293,718 switching off wind turbines in 2025

  The Norwegian grid is divided up into different regional grids and they each have different electricity prices. Those who build interconnects between the areas can get some of the price difference. It's very different from the UK market, which pretends to have a single area, runs auctions to determine the price and then has to make post-auction adjustments (in the billions) to fix the fact that electricity can't... - Source: Hacker News / 10 months ago

• Lignite surface coal mine devouring German farmland. One-third of electricity in Germany is now generated from coal since the natural gas pipelines were cut.

  Germany is absolutely not green, on https://app.electricitymaps.com/map you can see that it is always in the yellow, even when its wind production is maximum. Source: over 3 years ago

• France troubled reactors

  During the 2021-2022 winter french npp worked pretty much as usual, then both unplanned and regular maintenance requirement hit during spring, summer, and fall 2022. But for this winter 2022-2023 we are currently fine, we're exporting 10GW right now. And unless we have an abnormally cold end of January or February we will not require any import and will keep exporting a clean energy to our dirty neighbors. Source: over 3 years ago

• Europe’s largest carbon emitter failed to curb emissions in 2022

  That's also the method used in "real time" by Electricity Maps (https://app.electricitymaps.com/map). Uh, at the moment, German's emissions are over 6x the French emissions (261 vs 41 g/kWh)! What a success! Source: over 3 years ago

• While Canada has fumbled every climate promise, the UK has been hitting its emissions targets. What would it take to catch up?

  Compare Ontario to the rest of the world: https://app.electricitymaps.com/map. Source: over 3 years ago

• Wind generated a record amount of electricity in 2022

  Could do better is right. We have ~36GW of installed wind capacity in UK, while Germany embarrasses us with 70GW! Source. Source: over 3 years ago

• Plugin EVs Take Record 75% Share of Sweden’s Auto Market in December,56% for the entire year. 1 in 3 New Cars Sold in Sweden in 2022 Was Full Electric

  Netherlands have lower co2 footprint in their electricity production than Germany. Just check this map https://app.electricitymaps.com/map and change it to 12 months scale and you can see that it applies for every month. None of them are doing good, neither are Denmark. Source: over 3 years ago

• Electricity Prices in European countries, 2022-12-31 (€/MWh)

  Electricity maps web page. I recommend the app. Source: over 3 years ago

• Coal use has plummeted across the west

  It's pretty much the only number that matters when combating climate change and the UK, as well as most other countries, still fall so short of reasonable levels. My favourite and most depressing website for this stuff shows just how poor even gas performs when compared to Nuclear/Hydro: https://app.electricitymaps.com/map. Source: over 3 years ago

• Belgium has the most expensive electricity in Europe.

  At least they don't dump CO2 like madmen I guess: https://app.electricitymaps.com/map. Source: over 3 years ago

• Electricity input mix this Sunday in Germany, according to Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

  And this is an active map that shows the energy mix in most countries worldwide https://app.electricitymaps.com/map. Source: over 3 years ago

• Solar power will beat out coal globally in 3 years: International Energy Agency

  This map consolidates data from dozens of ISO-type entities around the world, and includes breakdowns by fuel type. Source: over 3 years ago

• The Five-Year Engineering Feat Germany Pulled Off in Months

  As mentioned taken from a snapshot at the time of Electricity Maps, check it out: https://app.electricitymaps.com/map. - Source: Hacker News / over 3 years ago

• GB National Grid Status

  My favourite for showing UK grid data on a nice, clean, fast chart over custom timescales: https://www.electricinsights.co.uk/#/dashboard My favourite for showing many country's grids around the world, and the power flowing between them through interconnectors: https://app.electricitymaps.com/map. - Source: Hacker News / over 3 years ago

• Germany's energy transition shows a successful future of Energy grids: The transition to wind and solar has decreased CO2 and increased reliability while reducing coal and reliance on Russia.

  I think it's a reference to https://app.electricitymaps.com/map which shows that Germany, as we speak, is among the worst countries in the world at CO2 emissions. Source: over 3 years ago

• How do you in Sweden regulate the use of electricity and advise citizens to reduce electricity consumption as much as possible?

  That is not true, we export quite a bit of electricity to Finland: https://app.electricitymaps.com/map. Source: over 3 years ago

• Power generation by source in EU countries (2000–2018)

  Https://app.electricitymaps.com/map is good source for live generation and consumption data. Source: over 3 years ago