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Updated Feb 15, 2009 by dale.lane
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NationalGrid  
Comparing your electricity usage with the rest of the country

Introduction

The CurrentCost GUI can access realtime data from the National Grid and display this on the live CurrentCost graph.

Details

National electricity demand

The first feature implemented was to display the UK national electricity demand on the live graph. This can either be displayed by itself, or overlaid on the same graph as your personal CurrentCost live data.

Start the graph from:

Download data --> Show live national electricity demand

National electricity supply vs demand

The latest feature implemented is to display the UK national electricity supply vs demand on the live graph. This can either be displayed by itself, or overlaid on the same graph as your personal CurrentCost live data.

Start the graph from:

Download data --> Show live National Grid supply vs demand

Implementation

The data is obtained by screen-scaping http://www.nationalgrid.com

You can see http://www.nationalgrid.com/uk/Electricity/Data/Realtime/Demand/Demand60.htm for their own representation.

Screen-scraping is naturally a somewhat brittle approach - any changes to the National Grid website will break the app. However, it's an interesting data source while it's available.


Comment by dale.lane, Aug 18, 2009

Please note: I do not get notified when a comment is posted here, and I do not regularly visit this page.

As a result, comments here may go unnoticed by me for many months. I would recommend using http://getsatisfaction.com/dalelane/products/dalelane_currentcost_gui instead if you would like a more prompt answer.


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