<story><title>Show HN: An interactive map showing live wind farm generation in Great Britain</title><url>https://renewables-map.robinhawkes.com</url><text>GB Renewables Map an energy experiment created entirely in my free time (day job is visualisation at Octopus Energy).&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s an interactive map showing live generation for major wind farms in Great Britain, showing what each wind farm is generating both now and in the past, and where that generation is physically located.&lt;p&gt;Animated weather data is from WeatherLayers and shows current and historic wind conditions on the map, providing context to wind generation around the country.&lt;p&gt;History mode allows you to go back in time and see wind generation and weather conditions for a particular date and time. It&amp;#x27;s great for exploring days of record generation, such as the 21.6GW record on January 10th, 2023!&lt;p&gt;Prediction mode lets you see what wind farms are estimated to be generating using current wind conditions and model based on historic generation and wind speeds. Is a wind farm generating as you expect, or is there something to look into?&lt;p&gt;An experimental feature allows you to see what future wind farms could be generating today (or in the past!) if they were already built and operational. If you click the &amp;quot;sparkle&amp;quot; button on the map you&amp;#x27;ll get to see what the upcoming 3.6GW Dogger Bank wind farm is estimated to generate if it was operational today.&lt;p&gt;There&amp;#x27;s an &amp;quot;About&amp;quot; section on the site that goes into detail on the various public data sources and how some of the features work. I also document a lot of this on my Twitter @robhawkes if you&amp;#x27;re curious.&lt;p&gt;This is just the start and there are many more features to come!&lt;p&gt;Please let me know your comments and suggestions.</text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>zakjan</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m here to answer for WeatherLayers, AMA! I&amp;#x27;m super happy to help @robhawkes with this project.&lt;p&gt;WeatherLayers consists of two products, that can be used either together or separately:&lt;p&gt;- WeatherLayers GL is a frontend visualisation library with deck.gl layers which can be integrated with common map libraries. The library can be used either with custom self-hosted data or with WeatherLayers Cloud.&lt;p&gt;- WeatherLayers Cloud is a cloud service providing pre-processed data for visualization from common public weather data sources (NOAA, Copernicus).&lt;p&gt;Athough it’s a commercial project, there are ways to discuss a potential discount or even a free usage for a non-commercial project such as Robin’s.</text></comment>
<story><title>Show HN: An interactive map showing live wind farm generation in Great Britain</title><url>https://renewables-map.robinhawkes.com</url><text>GB Renewables Map an energy experiment created entirely in my free time (day job is visualisation at Octopus Energy).&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s an interactive map showing live generation for major wind farms in Great Britain, showing what each wind farm is generating both now and in the past, and where that generation is physically located.&lt;p&gt;Animated weather data is from WeatherLayers and shows current and historic wind conditions on the map, providing context to wind generation around the country.&lt;p&gt;History mode allows you to go back in time and see wind generation and weather conditions for a particular date and time. It&amp;#x27;s great for exploring days of record generation, such as the 21.6GW record on January 10th, 2023!&lt;p&gt;Prediction mode lets you see what wind farms are estimated to be generating using current wind conditions and model based on historic generation and wind speeds. Is a wind farm generating as you expect, or is there something to look into?&lt;p&gt;An experimental feature allows you to see what future wind farms could be generating today (or in the past!) if they were already built and operational. If you click the &amp;quot;sparkle&amp;quot; button on the map you&amp;#x27;ll get to see what the upcoming 3.6GW Dogger Bank wind farm is estimated to generate if it was operational today.&lt;p&gt;There&amp;#x27;s an &amp;quot;About&amp;quot; section on the site that goes into detail on the various public data sources and how some of the features work. I also document a lot of this on my Twitter @robhawkes if you&amp;#x27;re curious.&lt;p&gt;This is just the start and there are many more features to come!&lt;p&gt;Please let me know your comments and suggestions.</text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bb123</author><text>Hi Rob! I have a request from an avid user of your visualisations in the Octopus Energy App. Could you please switch the y axis on real time data from Octopus Home Mini from Wh&amp;#x2F;min to just instant Watts? kWh&amp;#x2F;day makes sense on larger time scales but Wh&amp;#x2F;min is pretty meaningless to most people. Also it seems like it would be more readable as a line graph with datapoints, than a bar chart. A line graph would also allow for better interpolation between missing readings too.</text></comment>