Change source for Data in Germany

[Bohne13]

I'm not sure if it's an improvement to the German data source. But could someone check the data source from Frauenhofer ISE?

https://www.energy-charts.de/price_de.htm

[systemcatch]

Thanks for the link @Bohne13!

https://www.energy-charts.de/power.htm?source=all-sources&week=2&year=2018 looks quite good, hourly detailed breakdown by type for the current day. And we can get past breakdown as well.

@corradio we talked once about having multiple parsers per zone, maybe that would work here? It could be used as a backup if ENTSOE goes down, or it could run in the background permanently to augment the dataset.

[alixunderplatz]

More details regarding sources for Germany as sort of a summary: (if this hasn't been said before or for people who didn't know the data sources yet)

Energy Charts by Bruno Burger / Fraunhofer ISE is probably the "most famous" source for all types of info on the German electricity market. They use data from the 4 TSOs and the EEX / EPEX SPOT, sometimes maybe correction factors are used to cover the entire generation, not too sure about that. Last year, about 550 TWh of German net generation were covered by the tracking of Energy Charts. Gross generation and some industry generation are missing, so the data is very close to what really comes out of the socket in your wall. I've been following this site and the new features since the start of its existence and was really happy to see this info well visualized and aggregated.

There also is a map of all of the reporting/known power plants / units: https://energy-charts.de/osm_de.htm#

Per-unit generation is published after (~) 5 days - one could split this and distribute it to the TSO-areas. They seem to take this from EEX. But that is also available on entso-e.

Something else of interest might be the (specific) emissions of German coal power plants (related to #960 #738):

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On this occasion, check out the Agorameter, too!

It is published by "Agora Energiewende", a think tank on the energy transition. The data is including correction factors based on seasonal and yearly generation data. I met these people in person - if any questions related to their site and tool may occur, I may contact them.

https://www.agora-energiewende.de/de/themen/-agothem-/Produkt/produkt/76/Agorameter/

This is the documentation: https://www.agora-energiewende.de/en/topics/-agothem-/Produkt/produkt/180/Agorameter+-+Dokumentation/

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Of course, since they are reporting to entso-e, the four German TSOs are an additional source for real time generation and exchanges, too. TSO 50Hertz has a bunch of very detailed data on their website. You can also find data of the other three TSOs Amprion, TenneT and TransnetBW.

Excuse me if this is a bit off-topic: Splitting Germany into four zones is possible by data published on entso-e! I'd highly recommend it, because there are huge differences that deserve to be visualized.

Control area of 50Hertz for example has some of the highest penetration by fluctuating renewables (like Denmark) and is the main driver for German electricity export due to the high generation capacity installed. A huge chunk of coal is still producing even though the renewables share covers the demand entirely very often. 8 GW, like in the image below, leave the control area on a regular basis. Most of it goes to TenneT

The control area of Amprion is split in two zones. One is located in the densely populated west of Germany with a lot of conventional/fossil generation. The second part of Amprions control area is seperated from it and is located in the south of Germany somewhere east of Baden Württemberg in Bavaria. Little installed power there.

Tennet covers the largest area and is a strip from north to south. Very high generation from wind and PV in their area, most offshore wind capacities.

TransnetBW covers the area in Baden-Württemberg/south western Germany. Much PV, little wind, high demand.

I will search for the exchanges between the TSOs, since they are the only missing key piece. Not sure if I had seen them somewhere in the past.

Kind regards, Alex

[corradio]

Can I close this one as I don't believe we're going to change data source?

[brunolajoie]

Yes sure, the discussion is shifting to #1216, we'll close this one and keep it for later reference!