[kmax12]

The US electrical grid is changing fast. I built a site to track instantaneous solar generation and other records in real time across different parts of the country.

New solar records are done until next summer but still interesting stuff happening. For example, California hit a new battery charging record a few weeks ago.

All the records and more real time information about US grid are here: https://www.gridstatus.io/records

[wortelefant]

There is lots of potential, but as we see in Germany, a glass ceiling for solar and wind power exists where backup is needed - when there is little wind for only one hour at night, you still need another controllable source of energy with an output that does not vary by weather. Few are available with low CO2, such as hydro, nuclear, geothermal

[dojomouse]

This is extremely cool! Nice work. What data does it rely on and do you have any plans to support other countries?

[kmax12]

It’s a wide range of sources but basically the different Independent System Operators in the US and the Energy Information Agency (EIA) All of our data scrappers are open source: https://github.com/kmax12/gridstatus

[amboar]

Related, have something similar for the major grid in Australia and it's smaller counterpart in Western Australia: https://opennem.org.au/

[vijayr02]

And for the UK: https://grid.iamkate.com/