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Energy Generation
We use several types of dataset associated with energy generation.
Schools may have solar installations that offsets their electricity usage. To get a complete view of a schools energy consumption we may also need to understand how much energy they are generating.
When a school is set up in Energy Sparks, it can be configured with Solar PV, which means the analytics can then take that in to account when generating charts and data.
Solar data can come via:
- Email, e.g. Orsis solar monitoring system and soon Solar for Schools
- API - Low Carbon Hub, Solar Edge
Energy Sparks can fetch PV data from the Low Carbon Hub via their RBee API. The API provides solar PV generation, import and export values.
This is only currently used by a few schools, e.g. Windmill Primary.
Access to data via the Solar Edge Monitoring API
Only used by a single school.
Where we don't have direct access to solar PV data from individual schools, we use estimated data provided from the Sheffield-PV-Live-Data service.
The Carbon Intensity API provides both actual and forecast "carbon intensity" readings for the UK National Grid.
The Carbon Intensity forecast includes CO2 emissions related to electricity generation only. The includes emissions from all large metered power stations, interconnector imports, transmission and distribution losses, and accounts for national electricity demand, embedded wind and solar generation.
The data is provided under an open licence (CC-BY 4.0)) via [an open API]. We regularly fetch the data to obtain the national intensity readings for the last 24 hours.