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𝑮7𝑰𝙕𝑼 𝑹𝙍𝑫 @[email protected] · 2026-09-04 · 16:33 UTC

GB Grid Monitor: One for the data geeks!

You may know that I recently created an energy and environment dashboard that's available to download on Github.

Over the last week or so I've made some significant upgrades to the dashboard's monitoring and data logging functions. For example, local weather alerts are now enhanced. Rain is tracked nearby and alerts are spoken when rain is due at your location through the use of Environment Agency rain gauges. Mobile "Virtual" rain gauges are deployed to track and confirm incoming rain using Open Meteo and Open Weather Maps APIs. If using a VPN the API limits may be hit very quickly, so try to exclude Python from the VPN by using split-tunneling, or switch off the VPN.

The electricity grid monitoring is enhanced and includes a "system risk index". This monitors system inertia and alerts for when the system is particularly at risk of collapse - the function is calibrated against NESO's own data. Despite official statements, the grid is in a very precarious state at the moment due to rate of decarbonization and the shift to renewables. If the grid frequency moves outside of the statutory limits you hear annoyingly loud alarms (annoying only for your non-geeky other half, that is!)

If a collapse is imminent and the data reaches you before the power goes off, you may get a few seconds' notice before it all goes black.

Data logging is now in place so that historical electricity data can be plotted as 7-day graphs, with data available since 2017 - great for researchers! Frequency plots from upto the last 30 days can be captured to image files via the frequency "history" plot (assuming the app was running to capture the data). Generator plots are back-filled from online archives so can fill in if the app wasn't running.

For the best experience please read the "readme file" before using.

https://www.tvcomm.co.uk/g7izu/software/

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#ukgrid
#elexon
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#gridmonitor #ukgrid #elexon #environmentagency #g7izu

The Guardian Feeds @[email protected] · 2026-09-04 · 06:20 UTC

Revealed: how companies ‘secretly’ use billions of litres of public water in drought-hit England
By Rachel Salvidge

Exclusive: As millions of people face hosepipe bans, many companies are not required to report, let alone cut, use of public supply

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/sep/04/revealed-how-companies-secretly-use-billions-of-litres-of-public-water-in-drought-hit-england

#Water #Oilandgascompanies #Chemicalindustry #Waterindustry #England #EnvironmentAgency #UKnews #Environment #Business #Energyindustry #TheGuardian #RachelSalvidge

#water #oilandgascompanies #chemicalindustry #waterindustry #england #environmentagency

Environment | The Guardian US @[email protected] · 2026-09-04 · 06:07 UTC

Revealed: how companies ‘secretly’ use billions of litres of public water in drought-hit England https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/sep/04/revealed-how-companies-secretly-use-billions-of-litres-of-public-water-in-drought-hit-england #Water #OilAndGasCompanies #ChemicalIndustry #WaterIndustry #England #EnvironmentAgency #UkNews #Environment #Business #EnergyIndustry

#water #oilandgascompanies #chemicalindustry #waterindustry #england #environmentagency

DoomsdaysCW @[email protected] · 2024-10-17 · 13:56 UTC

#Sewage dumped illegally in #Windermere over 3 years

by Joe Crowley
October 17, 2024

"A water company repeatedly dumped millions of litres of raw sewage illegally into one of #ngland's most famous lakes over a three-year period, the BBC can reveal.

"More than 140 million litres of waste were pumped into Windermere between 2021 and 2023 at times when it was not permitted, our analysis shows, and #UnitedUtilities failed to report most of it.

"It means the company's #IllegalDumping of #sewage into the lake went on for far longer, and was far more extensive, than was previously known.

"United Utilities said some of its sewage releases into #Windermere were 'potentially non-compliant' but that it #SelfReports 'over 94% of potential pollution incidents to the #EnvironmentAgency'.

"Matt Staniek, a campaigner against sewage pollution and founder of #SaveWindermere, said Windermere was 'the jewel in the crown of the #LakeDistrict #NationalPark, and it's being used as an open sewer'.

"It is sometimes necessary to release sewage into rivers and lakes to stop the wastewater system from being overwhelmed by #HeavyRain but this #pollution can damage the environment, causing harmful #AlgalBlooms and even killing fish.

"In January this year - after BBC Panorama revealed the company had downplayed the severity of dozens of #pollution incidents, some involving Windermere - United Utilities retrospectively reported some discharges into the lake from October 2023 onwards."

#WaterIsLife #SelfReportingCompanies #Crapitalism #FishKill #IllegalDumping #UK