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The open source repository for Electricity Maps data parsers that powers the world's most comprehensive electricity data platform

23 mentions on Hacker News by 12 people: 0 stories, 23 comments · first 2018-08-16 · latest 2026-04-12

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  1. …and whenever some data provider changes their API, they welcome contributions to address that: https://github.com/electricitymaps/electricitymaps-contrib
  2. …for the remaining fossil gas generation should occur in due time simply out of economics [2]. [1] https://github.com/electricitymaps/electricitymaps-contrib/b... [2] https://archive.is/2024.06.24-223854/https://www.economist.c...
  3. …hot, make water do work. Examples: https://github.com/search?q=repo%3Aelectricitymaps%2Felectri... https://github.com/electricitymaps/electricitymaps-contrib/b...
    comment by toomuchtodo · 2024-01-10 · in A battery has replaced Hawaii's last coal plant
  4. Indeed I’ve reported the bug here: https://github.com/electricitymaps/electricitymaps-contrib/i...
  5. …I'm sure you could use the same datapoint to cover more zones (cf their Github repo https://github.com/electricitymaps/electricitymaps-contrib/b... )
  6. It is open source and they generally scrape it from the most direct source: https://github.com/electricitymaps/electricitymaps-contrib It started as an open source project and it became an entire company
    comment by conradev · 2023-08-20 · in Electricity Maps
  7. …back to ML generated estimates otherwise. https://app.electricitymap.org/map?wind=false&solar=false https://github.com/electricitymaps/electricitymaps-contrib/b... Beautiful project you've done, really enjoy the visualizations. (no…
  8. A GitHub issue was filed regarding this: https://github.com/electricitymaps/electricitymaps-contrib/i...
    comment by corradio · 2022-12-09 · in GB National Grid Status
  9. Nope. But the project is open-source so potentially you could implement this yourself: https://github.com/electricitymaps/electricitymaps-contrib
  10. …maybe it can help. [1]: https://app.electricitymap.org/zone/CZ?solar=false&remote=tr... [2]: https://github.com/tmrowco/electricitymap-contrib/blob/maste...
  11. …from https://opendata.reseaux-energies.fr [1] (I am a volunteer contributor to the platform). [1] https://github.com/tmrowco/electricitymap-contrib/blob/maste...
  12. …the max 2 hour delay specified by ElectricityMap. Here's the parser for the current data from EIA: https://github.com/tmrowco/electricitymap-contrib/blob/maste... Should the EIA (1) source, aggregate, cache, and make more real-time data…
  13. From https://github.com/tmrowco/electricitymap-contrib#data-sourc... : > Here are some of the ways you can contribute: > Building a new parser, Fixing a broken parser, Changes to the frontend, Find data sources, Verify data sources,…
  14. …but if it's coming from a central European commission I expect it to be audited and verified. [1] https://github.com/tmrowco/electricitymap-contrib/blob/maste...
  15. …the parser code to retrieve the data is open source; so here's the relevant module for Australia: https://github.com/tmrowco/electricitymap-contrib/blob/24ea2... The production mix (energy generation by source) source URL is listed on…
  16. …sharing! The map couldn't be what it is today without the help of the great open source community: https://github.com/tmrowco/electricitymap-contrib We're also super proud that the data is being used by Google to ensure that they use their…
  17. …of distributed PV generation. electricitymap uses http://pv-map.apvi.org.au/data for this feed ( https://github.com/tmrowco/electricitymap-contrib/blob/maste... ) but that source now 404s.
  18. …Would intraday rates be desirable for all market participants? "Add area for curtailment data?" https://github.com/tmrowco/electricitymap-contrib/issues/236...
    comment by westurner · 2020-05-23 · in Solar’s Future is Insanely Cheap
  19. …or explore requiring such data be made available by law (if public policy is your thing). [1] https://github.com/tmrowco/electricitymap-contrib#adding-a-n...
  20. …your local geography supported, contributing a scraper is possible via their Github repo [1]. [1] https://github.com/tmrowco/electricitymap-contrib#adding-a-n...
  21. See https://github.com/tmrowco/electricitymap-contrib/blob/maste... - Olivier
  22. …are a bit afraid of the amount of data that needed to be transmitted. We had an issue opened here: https://github.com/tmrowco/electricitymap-contrib/issues/733 Feel free to help us at https://github.com/tmrowco/electricitymap-contrib -…
  23. …this posting, and noticed that they already have a nice page explaining their data sources: https://github.com/tmrowco/electricitymap-contrib#real-time-...