UK & Ireland Grid Monitor
Rainy day work!
Geek overload: This is a quick clip showing an upgrade to Grid Monitor that I'm working on.
⚡ With Claude, I built a live map of Great Britain’s high-voltage electricity grid, styled after a grid control room.
How it works:
🗺️ The network (400, 275 and 132 kV lines and substations) comes from OpenStreetMap data, drawn to true scale.
🏭 Every power station’s output updates each minute from Elexon’s public data: what each operator says it will generate, or the level the grid operator NESO has instructed. Circles show output; a moving arc shows whether output is rising or falling.
🔌 Interconnectors to Europe and Ireland show their metered flows along their real cable routes.
📐 Line flows aren’t published, so the map calculates them with a power-flow model running in the browser. Line width and moving dashes show size and direction; values flash when they change.
🏴➡️🏴 The Scotland-to-England transfer sits alongside NESO’s forecast limits, so you can see when wind farms are being paid to turned down.
🚨 Operators’ official outage reports flag plant that’s unavailable.
Everything modelled is labelled as modelled. It's a very geeky and useful way to see how wind, nuclear, gas and imports move around the grid in real time.
I won't be releasing this immediately, but wanted you to see what I'm working on. More clips will come in reply to this post.
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