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This is awesome, thanks.

Is it actually up to date and accurate?

I wonder if wind player a major role somewhere where they really have a lot of turbines. Like Netherlands or Germany perhaps.

Would be really interesting to be able to compare different countries with the same sort of data.

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You can see Ireland's real time wind generation here: http://www.eirgrid.com/operations/systemperformancedata/wind...

and total demand is here: http://www.eirgrid.com/operations/systemperformancedata/syst...

There is more data available here: http://www.bmreports.com/ http://www.bmreports.com/bsp/additional/soapserver.php

Its pretty much real time data that can be used for trading on the electricity market.

FWIW, wind power occasionally peaks above 80% of total electricity usage in Denmark. Long-term average is 25-30% and rising IIRC.

It's important to note that wind power in Denmark only works at that scale because they can export it to Norway and Sweden. Those neighbors can absorb variable power output while load balancing their grid with hydroelectric dams.

Hydroelectric is currently the only economical "grid-scale battery", and it is not available everywhere.

http://www.theoildrum.com/node/1735

Yes it is up to date. The info/about section is a great read -- he talks about the reason he created this site, the source of the data and also explains the software stack: http://www.gridwatch.templar.co.uk/about.html

"Would be really interesting to be able to compare different countries with the same sort of data."

Wondering about history and raw data sets.

Excellent looking site for getting students interested in stuff like power generation

It seems to change when you refresh (about every 5 minutes) and uses a reliable looking data source.

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