Additional data source for Belgium / bring BE back

[alixunderplatz]

Hey guys!

Since the data on entso-e are incomplete / N/A for some of the generation types for Belgium, I suggest combining the data with generation schedules from the Belgian TSO Elia. I have in mind to use the data for generation from gas and hydro from the schedule. Gas makes up about 1/3 of generation during the day, and hydro (probably pumped storage) up to 10%.

Schedules for the present day as well as for the previous ones are available as XLS and HTML downloads below the diagram on the site.

http://www.elia.be/en/grid-data/power-generation/generation-schedules

There are also "actual generation"-data for the previous day, which seem to be valid for the past. http://www.elia.be/en/grid-data/power-generation/energy-cipu-units

I compared data for yesterday's scheduled and actual data for gas and hydro: and

Total generation also matches the load of about 11 to 12 GW during daytime quite well. I think it is precise enough to put the scheduled data on the map. What do you think?

[corradio]

Sounds reasonable. @Dalius-ENTSO-E do you have any insights as to why BE data is missing on ENTSOE before we move on to use another datasource?

[systemcatch]

@alixunderplatz So far we've avoided using scheduled or predicted generation. But the past day breakdown would be useful to have for the dataset while the ENTSOE feed is not working.

[Dalius-ENTSO-E]

gas, hard coal, oil, all hydro, waste are missing since 12.12, biomass since 21.11. Request to Elia sent, hope that issue will be solved soon.

[alixunderplatz]

@systemcatch right, I was also thinking of rather using this for the dataset in case of unavailable entso-e data, since they might still be imported from Elia then.

[lmbxl]

Hello,

I noticed that no BE data appear anymore in the Electricity Map although several BE data (nuclear, other, solar, wind offshore, wind onshore) are published on the ENTSO-E transparency platform.

If the ENTSO-E transparency platform populates the electricity map (via Rest API) once-a-day, would anybody know the reason why the nuclear, other, solar, wind offshore and wind onshore BE data are not published in the Electricity Map anymore?

Data are available after 3 days on the ENTSO-E transparency platform and only data for the last 2 days are missing. The cause has been found and the resolution is ongoing. I will keep you posted as soon as all data will be available again.

[corradio]

Hi @lmbxl, The Electricity Map shows data for the last 2 hours, which is why it doesn't appear. We actually update data from ENTSOE every 5 minutes. It worked however in the past -- do you know if anything changed?

[lmbxl]

Hello Corradio,

Problem seems resolved at present :-) BE data are available again.

The data of the generations by type were no more published in real time (J; -J + 2) as the associated mnemonics had been modified in the system source.

[corradio]

Terrific news @lmbxl ! Many users will be very happy about this!