Live 24/7 CO₂ emissions of electricity consumption
app.electricitymaps.com
Electricity Maps is a live 24/7 visualization of where your electricity comes from and how much CO2 was emitted to produce it.

Nice tool to get an idea of different electricity markets.

  • kersploosh@sh.itjust.works
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    6 months ago

    I’m curious where they get their data. Their info for my area doesn’t match the fuel mix report from my public utility.

    Edit: looks like data sources are linked on their GitHub.

    • vividspecter@lemm.ee
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      6 months ago

      Their info for my area doesn’t match the fuel mix report from my public utility.

      Same here. https://www.nem-watch.info/widgets/reneweconomy/ for Australia conflicts significantly in terms of fuel mix with the electricitymaps data.

      EDIT: Possibly it’s not exactly “live” and has a lag time of a few hours, at least going by the time written in the bottom left. Then the data is likely closer to correct.

      • Hugohase@startrek.websiteOP
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        6 months ago

        It’s a few hours behind and they have obviously problems with behind the meter production. Adfitionally, the values for CO2 emisdions are off (i.e. nuclear is calculated with 5g/kWh, this is 1/3 to 1/10 of the values you find in literature) But all in all, you can see the trends of production and im- export.

        • vividspecter@lemm.ee
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          6 months ago

          behind the meter production

          Makes sense as Australia has the highest rooftop solar uptake in the world, and Queensland, the state I looked at, has IIRC the highest uptake within Australia. But agreed, it’s good to see global data even if it’s currently imperfect.

  • Blóðbók@slrpnk.net
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    6 months ago

    Unfortunately not as comprehensive as I would have liked. It has data on barely half the world, and almost none on Asia and Africa.

  • Meansalladknifehands@lemm.ee
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    6 months ago

    This is not accurate, we have coal power in Sweden as well, but not at large scale, also they try to cover it as burning olive seeds, but that is just some percent of the coal they are burning.

    EDIT: seems like they closed the last coal powerplant in 2020.