Electricity Maps
Electricity Maps
Electricity Maps is a live 24/7 visualization of where your electricity comes from and how much CO2 was emitted to produce it.
See near real time carbon intensity of electricity generation around the world.
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The "noooo nuclear fission is not a viable way of generating reliable emission low energy" crowd not knowing any stats about France will hate this
The map is pretty biased against Germany, which is why it is brought up a lot in these kinds of discussions. Northern Italy for example has 409g/kWh and Germany 419g/kWh using production and covering the last twelve months. However Germany has 61% low carbon electricity share and Northern Italy 33%. Similar story with South Korea as well, which has also 33%, but slightly more emissions at 452g/kWh.
How is that a bias ?
Having a lot of low carbon electricity does not matter if the rest is very high carbon. What matter is the overall emissions.
Because the only way you end up with these numbers, is to presume that all fossil fuel electricity is produced from the worst plant available. For Germany that would be lignite and 1075g/kWh.
The platform is open source and is using open data published by the ENTSOE (European Network of Transmission System Operators for Electricity).
If you find error on the data you can open an issue on Github but so far I will trust the reliability of the platform more than you.
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