Electricitymap-contrib: Crimea is shown as part of Russia

[systemcatch]

This is due to the natural earth shapefiles assigning administration of the area to Russia. We can alter this by using the state file instead and assigning Crimea to Ukraine. Lets discuss what we want to do here.

[corradio]

Any statement by the UN about this? We should probably follow the position of the UN on this.

[systemcatch]

They support Ukraine.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_General_Assembly_Resolution_68/262

On 19 Feb 2018 15:33, "Olivier Corradi" [e-mail] wrote:

Any statement by the UN about this? We should probably follow the position
of the UN on this.

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[jarek]

Do we know if UKRENERGO generation figures still include generation in Crimea? It looks like Crimea has about 500 MW of generation capacity and SO-UPS currently shows 757 MW of exports to Crimea (distinct from their report on interconnection to Ukraine). Perhaps we should have Crimea as a separate region altogether.

[alixunderplatz]

On the ENTSO-E grid map: Transmission lines of the Ukrainian system to Crimea seem to be cut. New ones were constructed coming from the east.

A seperate zone is possible looking at the available data.
On the SO-UPS site, the generation capacity (schedule) for thermal stations on Crimea (translation is "Republic of Crimea") are also listed: http://br.so-ups.ru/Public/MainPageData/VSVGO/ActivePowerTPPByRegions.aspx

Same for forecast/scheduled renewables: http://br.so-ups.ru/Public/MainPageData/VSVGO/PowerVIEByRegions.aspx

The nightly values are pure wind energy, during the day you see the typical solar peak. Not possible to clearly seperate these RES at the moment. Around 60 MW of wind capacity and few hundred MW solar are installed.

There is a third table to be considered, labeled as "Power of industrial generation": http://br.so-ups.ru/Public/MainPageData/VSVGO/PowerESPPByRegions.aspx

This is from the map you can only access with IE and a silverlight plugin. In the yellow box for Crimea it says:
planned consumption
actual consumption (1163 MW)
planned generation
actual generation (461 MW)

So around 700 MW of imports are the logical consequence.

So all of the thermal and instustrial generation could be mapped to "unknown". For the renewables part there is no solution atm, but to include it in "unknown" as well.

EDIT: here is the forecasted load table

Looking on the electricity market, Crimea is part of RU price zone 1. Therefore, I'd assume, it is not included in the UKRENERGO data anymore.

[systemcatch]

https://sputniknews.com/russia/201601141033156976-crimea-switches-away-from-ukrainian-power/ suggests that Ukraine no longer is no longer supplying Crimea and that Russia is providing power.

[systemcatch]

Maybe the simplest way to solve this is to create a new zone UKR-KR using data from http://br.so-ups.ru/Public/MainPageData/VSVGO/PowerVIEByRegions.aspx. Assuming that page updates scheduled to actual similar to the RU parser.

[corradio]

If we can confirm that Crimea is not part of the RU parser, then let's create a new zone, and consider it as a "region" of Ukraine.

Maybe we should use the following codes?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-2:UA

[systemcatch]

Yup those codes look good. I think that Crimea's generation is included in the RU parser at the moment which makes things difficult, @alixunderplatz do you think the generation schedule on http://br.so-ups.ru/Public/MainPageData/VSVGO/PowerVIEByRegions.aspx is updating once the hour has passed like in the main RU parser? I've been watching it but haven't seen anything yet.

[alixunderplatz]

@systemcatch it should be included in the RU parser, that is correct, because it is part of price zone 1.

I just saw I gave the wrong link for thermal generation above - excuse me! The link in your comment is for the generation forecast for renewable energies (in this case, solar+wind), which probably remains constant through the day.
Here is the link for thermal generation (I fixed it now in my longer comment above):
http://br.so-ups.ru/Public/MainPageData/VSVGO/ActivePowerTPPByRegions.aspx
Lets check if that one changes a little through time.

[corradio]

We're getting a lot of bad PR on this:

Can we submit a quick fix? cc @jbuverud @maxbellec
We can always update the parsers correctly afterwards.

[systemcatch]

Crimea is not shown as part of Russia anymore.