Introducing ⚡️GB Renewables Map⚡️ – my latest (personal) energy experiment Play with a map showing live generation for major wind farms in Great Britain, showing what each farm is generating and where that generation is physically located. More soon! 👀

If it's not clear (I'm working on UX) you can click on individual wind farms either on the map or on the table on the left. This will show a breakdown of historic generation for the "balancing units" that make up each wind farm. Click anywhere on the map to clear the selection

Many smaller wind farms don't have generation data available but can be viewed on the map as black dots. This is usually because they are "embedded" and so don't have a balancing unit that reports generation. I'll probably tidy the app to disable these farms on the table.

This is the first version of the map and I have big plans for future updates. I mainly wanted to get this version in your hands to see what the reaction is and go from there. Expect it to be quirky and have bugs, and please be kind 😅 Let me know your comments and suggestions!

If you want to learn more about how it works, there's an "About" link on the map (top left) but happy to answer questions here as well. Generally the weather data is from @WeatherLayers, generation data is from @ELEXONUK with countless other sources for creating all the lookups.

And lastly, a big thanks to @zakjan for the generosity and help with @WeatherLayers Also @russss for the help with BM unit lookups and @openinframap And @TerraVolt_UK for help working through the mess that is data around BM units and generation Others too, I'm sure!

If you appreciate this project then may I ask if you can help share it, either via a RT or other means? I put a tonne of work into things like this and sometimes Twitter decides that it simply doesn't want to show my tweets to anyone 🤷‍♂️ Thank you! 🙏

@Eaterofsun

spent about 2 yrs plotting turbines on OSM. Most/all onshore windfarms should be available tagged with their repd:id

Hey Jez, sorry for the delay! I'm planning to add @openinframap tiles to the map "soon" which will utilise your contributions. The original plan was actually to start with this as I want to do some visuals at the turbine level, though I had to bump it from the first release.

Fantastic - well done.