Electricitymap-contrib: Regional data for UK / GB

[corradio]

https://carbonintensity.org.uk/ has regional breakdown that we might be able to use.
We need to have api access and get access to:

• power production breakdown
• imports between each areas

[jarek]

Their calculations seem to produce unusual results, they're showing London as 97 gCOeq with 92% gas while East England is 287 g with 73% gas...

[systemcatch]

This is all forecasted data right?

API docs - https://api.carbonintensity.org.uk/

It seems like no auth is needed for the API.

[ABerrow]

Hey there, i was passing by, saw these comments and i have been looking at that website for a while now, the numbers seem fairly accurate when it comes to generation. I have been comparing the generation numbers with another website and they are fairly close. For refinement of solar generation this may help https://www.solar.sheffield.ac.uk/pvlive/ . These http://grid.iamkate.com/ and http://www.mygridgb.co.uk/dashboard/ i have been looking at for a while which may also help, they seem pretty good, but i cant find anything for individual areas so my suggestion is to try and contact the uk national grid for this information or one of these/your sources.

[AyrtonB]

@systemcatch They provide both forecasted and historic data

possibly helpful functions for the parser in here - https://github.com/AyrtonB/NG-Carbon-Intensity/blob/master/Emissions%20Scraper%20Walkthrough.ipynb

[peterhughgriffin]

https://carbonintensity.org.uk/ has regional breakdown that we might be able to use.
We need to have api access and get access to:

• power production breakdown
• imports between each areas

I don't think it's too simple to do either of these things.

Firstly, it gives all the power production as percentage of total, I can't find any way to get at MW values. Integrating percentages would require cross referencing with total production from Elexon, which seems rather over complicated. Secondly, the regional data has an estimate of the proportion of coal/wind/imports etc, but does not show energy flows between the regions.

I've asked on their github whether getting either of these might be possible, but they are not particularly active on there, so not sure how quick a response might be.

The methodology for regional work is here: https://github.com/carbon-intensity/methodology/raw/master/Regional%20Carbon%20Intensity%20Forecast%20Methodology.pdf

[AyrtonB]

Yeah its a shame theres no figure for demand in MW by region.

If you want to scrape the data I put some code together to do it a while back - https://github.com/AyrtonB/NG-Carbon-Intensity/blob/master/Emissions%20Scraper%20Walkthrough.ipynb

[AyrtonB]

And looks like the GeoJSON can be downloaded from here - https://s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/carbonintensity.org.uk/DNORegions_pretty_test_country.geojson

[corradio]

FYI, @robertahunt and I were in touch with National Grid about this. @robertahunt did you receive an update from them?

[robertahunt]

Not in the last couple months. Last I heard they sounded positive about releasing the data publicly, but I would guess their internal processes to finalize this take some time. I'll send them a mail asking for an update.

[robertahunt]

I got a prompt response! Sounds like they are close to releasing an upgraded version of the site with regional flow. No exact date, but we should keep an eye out for it.

[corradio]

Note: https://github.com/tmrowco/electricitymap-contrib/issues/2696 had a lot of very good input on this matter.