Planned features

In the coming months we are planing to expand the platform with new features and data sets:

Data sets

  1. Power plants map 
    • JRC Open Power Plants Database (JRC-PPDB-OPEN)
    • Generation per unit  (now in “Generation” panel)
    • Power market: auction results, contracted power, data from TSO (PSE) and regulator’s office (URE)
    • CO2 and pollutants emissions from: KOBiZE and EMAS (including fuel, water consumption, waste production)
  2. Production – Polskie Sieci Elektroenergetyczne S.A. (TSO) – Polish Power System Operation – new time series
  3. Available power – adding outages, renovations
  4. Consumption – consumption profiles for electricity and heat in industry, services, households
  5. Heating – system and individual, heating networks, generation, emissions, technologies and support programs (Clean Air)
  6. Energy mix forecasts – scenarios from NECP, Polish Energy Policy (PEP2040) etc.
  7. Medium-term generation forecasts – based on TSO data
  8. Climate
    • Weather – potential of wind and solar 
    • Water resources, forecasts, impact on power generation
  9. Balancing market 
    • PSE (TSO): Daily reports from balancing market -> Prices
  10. RES Map
    • Regulator (URE) – installations map
    • Auction results
  11. Data from neighbouring markets

Features

  1. English version of the platform
  2. Aggregation for total load to calculate averages
  3. Expanding the power plant parameters and different visualization schemes
  4. Power balance – power vs load
  5. API
  6. Embedding graphs as HTML on other websites
  7. Sum values shown on stacked bar charts
  8. Electricity and CO2 prices – volumes shown on chart (at the moment only in Data tab)
  9. Users forum, comments, wiki, publishing our data scrapers on github

Known bugs

  1. General
    • No Polish characters in CSV
    • The time-range buttons on the left of the chart do not always switch time aggregation to reflect the data set – we recommend refreshing the page
    • Annual aggregation may not always be correct immediately if the selected period is not a full calendar year – we recommend selecting full years
    • Non-uniform number formatting (decimal places, thousands / millions etc.)
    • Copying data from table does not work – this is a bug in an external library, current status here
  2. Power:
    • Electricity demand
      • Data for the upcoming months of 2020 may be shown as blank (no data) – we recommend a precise selection of the time range (only in the past)
      • Exporting data to a CSV file can cut data
  3. Electricity production – power plant
    • The “Data” tab may take a long time to load because the entire data set is being read
    • Data export has been disabled due to performance issues, we will restore as soon as possible
    • Empty fields with unusual chart configurations and no power plant operation in the selected time range
    • The legend is not always displayed correctly
  4. Power plants map
    • Export applies only to emissions, in the future it will be possible to export the entire data set
  5. Cross-border flows
    • Daily aggregation with the selection of one day returns no result
  6. Prices
    • Unspecified volume unit in the exported file
  7. Weather
    • Solar
      • Export to CSV – invalid data
    • Wind
      • Export to CSV – invalid data

If you think anything else can be improved / added on our platform or enriched with new data sets, contact us at: energy@instrat.pl

Release notes

v.1.9. February 8, 2021

  • Updating forecasts with latest data from PEP2040
  • Generation data upgrade from ARE

v.1.8. January 22, 2021

  • Rebuilding and updating offshore map

v.1.7. January 7, 2021

  • Offshore map
  • Forecasts for installed capacity, generation, emissions

v.1.6. November 30, 2020

  • Renewables – wind and PV generation and forecasts, remodelling the “Weather” section
  • Demand profiles for different tariffs
  • Forecasts for CO2, coal, natural gas, electricity prices
  • Contact form
  • Menu changes
  • Bugfixing

v.1.5. October 30, 2020

  • Power balance
  • Power plant loss/availability
  • PV and wind capacity factors performance update
  • Bugfixing

v.1.4. September 29, 2020

  • Map of capacity factors for wind and solar in NUTS2 regions in Europe
  • Natural gas prices
  • Oil prices
  • Axis formatting
  • Sum of electricity  imports and exports
  • Bugfixing

v.1.3. August 31, 2020

  • New RES plants map with data from URE
  • Added PV generation data from ENTSO-e
  • Total load aggregation
  • Bugfixing

v.1.2. July 8, 2020

  • Rebuilt export feature to support large files
  • Bugfixing

v.1.1. June 23, 2020

  • English language support
  • Bugfixing
  • Internal code structure improvements
  • Performance improvements
  • Donation page
  • Updated graph coloring by fuel

v.1.0. June 1, 2020

  • Initial version of platform

Project developed by the Instrat Foundation, based on open-source software plotly/dash and Azure carbon neutral hosting service. Funded with the support of the European Climate Foundation, CAN Europe, Instrat's own funds, Microsoft for Nonprofits program.

License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) - unless stated otherwise.

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