You can halve[0] the carbon footprint of your electricity use (eg EV charging, heating/cooling) simply by using at the right time of day. GreenForecast.au uses simple-but-effective ML to predict the next 7 days of Greenness with good temporal stability, allowing you to plan loads for you or your business.
It also predicts wholesale power prices across that time.
I would be pleased to provide API access.
[0] Depending on state, time of year, etc. Scroll down for details in Q&A. Where I live, yesterday's worst time was 85% fossil fuels and best was 40%.
In the current stage of our transition to renewables, the "greenness" of our electricity varies wildly throughout the day. I'm building a ML system to predict the next 7 days of "greenness" (and electricity price) in the hope that folks can reduce their carbon footprint, for example by:
- choosing a 'green' time of day to charge an EV
- 'overdrive' heating/cooling during times of high greenness, reducing usage during
- dream: a large scale user could take greenness into account when scheduling
- dream: the nightly weather report includes a green forecast
Sorry, not quite sure what you mean? Do you mean displaying the total power output (aka total demand) in MW rather than as a percentage? (In case that's correct, it's an interesting idea, I've been going back and forth on it, how would that info be useful?)
Oh, that was unclear. Having a "Total" option next to the states. That way it would be possible to see the renewable percentage for the grid as a whole.
Thanks!
There's one big energy market operator in Australia, they publish heaps of data but it's a pain to process [0][1].
I'm no expert in US energy... Presumably each of your (many) markets will have different available data, but more-or-less equivalent. Probably do-able, but will need to be re-done several times over!
You can halve[0] the carbon footprint of your electricity use (eg EV charging, heating/cooling) simply by using at the right time of day. GreenForecast.au uses simple-but-effective ML to predict the next 7 days of Greenness with good temporal stability, allowing you to plan loads for you or your business.
It also predicts wholesale power prices across that time.
I would be pleased to provide API access.
[0] Depending on state, time of year, etc. Scroll down for details in Q&A. Where I live, yesterday's worst time was 85% fossil fuels and best was 40%.