{"id":872,"date":"2009-08-17T10:20:26","date_gmt":"2009-08-17T10:20:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/?p=872"},"modified":"2009-08-17T11:42:29","modified_gmt":"2009-08-17T11:42:29","slug":"where-did-your-electricity-come-from","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/?p=872","title":{"rendered":"Where did your electricity come from?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/dalelane\/3829077175\/\" title=\"Where did my electricity come from? by dalelane, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"10\" align=\"left\" style=\"border: thin black solid\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2640\/3829077175_2fa45c1c04_m.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"176\" alt=\"Where did my electricity come from?\" \/><\/a>It&#8217;s been a while since I <a href=\"http:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/?tag=currentcost\">posted about CurrentCost stuff<\/a>, so time to share another little idea.<\/p>\n<p>Last night I made a start on adding a new graph type to <a href=\"http:\/\/code.google.com\/p\/currentcostgui\" target=\"_blank\">my CurrentCost application<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Instead of only displaying how much electricity you&#8217;ve used, the new graph displays the split of how that electricity was generated.<\/p>\n<p>Realtime figures for the &#8220;energy mix&#8221; of ratios of different generation methods used in the UK National Grid are available in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bmreports.com\/bsp\/additional\/soapfunctions.php?element=generationbyfueltypetable\" target=\"_blank\">an XML feed<\/a> that updates every five minutes. <\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Using this, I can calculate what proportion of each measurement collected from a CurrentCost meter comes from each energy source:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Closed cycle gas turbine\n<\/li>\n<li>Open cycle gass turbine\n<\/li>\n<li>Oil\n<\/li>\n<li>Coal\n<\/li>\n<li>Nuclear\n<\/li>\n<li>Wind\n<\/li>\n<li>Pump storage\n<\/li>\n<li>Non-pump storage hydro\n<\/li>\n<li>Other\n<\/li>\n<li>International import: France\n<\/li>\n<li>International import: Ireland\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>(<em>list of energy sources taken from <a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.amee.com\/index.php\/Real_Time_Electricity\" target=\"_blank\">amee.com<\/a><\/em>)<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m drawing this as a stacked graph, with horizontal bands of colour showing how much of each source of energy you&#8217;ve used. I&#8217;ve put a screenshot of the current graph above &#8211; click on it for a larger image.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/dalelane\/3829875730\/\" title=\"Live data from a CurrentCost meter by dalelane, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"10\" style=\"border: thin black solid\" align=\"right\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2485\/3829875730_84fb8585ce_m.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"174\" alt=\"Live data from a CurrentCost meter\" \/><\/a>It&#8217;s still quite rough around the edges &#8211; this is what I produced after a first couple of hours playing with the idea. <\/p>\n<p>But compare it with the line graph showing energy usage for the same time period, and I think it already gives a more interesting representation of the same live data. <\/p>\n<p>As a way of raising awareness about where our energy comes from, it&#8217;s useful. For example, I didn&#8217;t realise how much of our energy comes from nuclear sources before I saw the thick blue band through my graph last night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a while since I posted about CurrentCost stuff, so time to share another little idea. Last night I made a start on adding a new graph type to my CurrentCost application. Instead of only displaying how much electricity you&#8217;ve used, the new graph displays the split of how that electricity was generated. Realtime [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[407,194,214,302,330],"class_list":["post-872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-code","tag-amee","tag-currentcost","tag-electricity","tag-energy","tag-national-grid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}