if this type of data is interesting to you, here’s a site I’ve built that tracks like grid data across the US and Canada: https://www.gridstatus.io/live
We have generation mix, load, and pricing data. Both real time and historical
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Grid Status | Senior Software Engineer | Remote or Hybrid Chicago | Full-time | https://www.gridstatus.io/
Grid Status is one of the most widely used energy data platforms in the world. Our data has been used in reporting and analysis by the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, the Federal Reserve, and by thousands of users who regularly visit our products every month.
As one of the first members of our engineering team, you will have a hand in both defining and implementing the product we deliver to customers. No experience in the energy industry is necessary—just a strong eagerness to learn. Our team’s passion and expertise will help you quickly get up to speed.
Our stack is mostly: python, react, postgres, snowflake, AWS
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
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.
I am one of the people who built this page and the Grid Status site. Cool to see this posted!
Ultimately, the solar eclipse this weekend came and went without any noticeable impact for consumers of electricity. In my opinion, this is a very notable feat.
A well-planned and executed response by grid operators to a predictable eclipse bodes well for a future where events like a particularly cloudy day, blizzard conditions across a large area, or widespread hail damage to solar farms could reduce generation by similar MW values in the middle of the day.
As the grid becomes a more dynamic and volatile place, making operational and investment decisions based on data is more important than ever before.
It depends on the source of the data. For the regions with the pie charts, those are Independent System Operators (ISOs) or Regional Transmission Organizations (RTOs). They publish much more data and is more real time than the other regions, so we have different pages to display them.
We focus on the United States, so we can have the deepest coverage for each of the regions. In some cases that means were the same as Electricity Maps. In other case, you'll see our data is more real time without relying on estimations.
We have a lot more than generation mix data. For the wholesale energy markets, we also have all the pricing data[1]!
If you're curious about this data for the United States, I built a site that lets you track renewable production, as well as many other interesting datasets about the US electrical grid.
we report the instantaneous load records while that page is reporting the hourly average. I wouldn’t say the results are that different. They point to about the same times even if numbers have a small delta.
My focus right now is to make this data more available and easier to use. Haven’t done much to monetize yet. If you just want that data source, happy to get it to you for free. Shoot me an email at [email protected] or sign up for a free api key and grab it from the site
We collect from a lot of sources, so nearly every minute something is updating.