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Data for region Estonia #2083

Closed petrk94 closed 4 years ago

petrk94 commented 4 years ago

Hello,

I got in contact with the regenerative energy association of estonia and they provided me the following link with a dashboard to the wind power plants, maybe you can work with it:

https://dashboard.elering.ee/en/system/production-renewable

jarek commented 4 years ago

Hello,

We have data for Estonia, including wind:

This matches current output of https://dashboard.elering.ee/en/system/production-renewable (I'm seeing 229 MW right now) fairly well.

Perhaps Estonia's data was temporarily offline when you looked?

petrk94 commented 4 years ago

Hi @jarek , ah okay, no, it didnt was offline, I just wondered, that the production caused the highest amount of CO2 in europe, what I thought didnt could make sense, if the regenerative energy association has that amount of wind power. See my screenshot

estonia

jarek commented 4 years ago

It is because the "coal" burned in Estonia is unfortunately incredibly CO2eq-emitting oil shale, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_shale_in_Estonia#Air_emissions

Electricity Map is using 1515 gCOeq/kWh for Estonian shale https://github.com/tmrowco/electricitymap-contrib/blob/f7026be3d2ee855392535e6f559d866c8f72d1fb/config/co2eq_parameters.json#L242-L245 while other "bad" sources like coal are assigned 700 g/kWh. (Which is to an extent unrealistic, for example for brown coal / lignite - improving those numbers is planned in #738.)

alixunderplatz commented 4 years ago

I think nothing can be added to Estonia as it is, so I will close this issue.

1015 has a summary of alternative websites / data sources for europe including Baltic states already.