electricitymaps / electricitymaps-contrib

A real-time visualisation of the CO2 emissions of electricity consumption
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Distinction Day/Night Week/Weekends #6724

Open DrDrebon opened 2 months ago

DrDrebon commented 2 months ago

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Carbon intensity of the consumption is very important and dependant on the activity of an area. In order to make finer projection (e.g., moving consumption from day to night) it would be a great tool to be able to filter the "historical data" with some time slots.

Ideally, some filtering option should be available with : • Day / Night • Week days / Weekends • Holidays / Normal days

These would have to be parmetrized for each geographical aeras.

These filters could be cumulative (e.g., Night and weekends)

An additional nicety would be to be able to make some kind of SQL like request for filter (e.g., week day at night or holidays and weekends all the day)

This would improve alot the usefulness of Electricity Map.

Best regards,

VIKTORVAV99 commented 2 months ago

Hi and welcome!

I assume this is related to the API since you want to do queries?

DrDrebon commented 2 months ago

Hi,

Actually i was seeing it more like a filter option in the application

Best regards

VIKTORVAV99 commented 2 months ago

Ah!

We will be adding visual cues to highlight day and night soon(ish). But I there has been no discussion about holidays or weekends. I'll bring it up to the team though and see what they say.

But we likely won't be adding a way to query these things directly in the app though.

DrDrebon commented 2 months ago

Thank you very much.

The idea is more intended for the monthly and yearly data from the past than for the intra-day data (that is why I was speaking of filter).

In order to be able to know the carbon intensity for such area by night, by day, weekend, holidays, and so on...

Best regards