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Features

  • Generation broken down by source
  • Consumption in Germany
  • Import / Export with the neighboring countries
  • CO2 Equivalent per kWh on average
  • From 2015 to 2022 in 15min-intervals

Utilize several views to explore the data

  • Data Explorer: Explore the electricity production from several viewpoints through a timeline.
  • Timeline Comparison: Compare two timelines of electricity production which each other.
  • Heatmap: Discover the percentage contribution of each electricity source, broken down by weekdays, to the total production. Or use the heatmap to display the emissions in CO2-Equivalent per weekday.
  • Scatterplot: Identify the correlation of two variables, divided by years or seasons, using a custom-build scatterplot.

About

  • Data Source: The data is provided by the Federal Network Agency ("Bundesnetzagentur") Germany under the CC BY 4.0 licence.
  • CO2 Equivalent: Steffen Schlömer (ed.), Technology-specific Cost and Performance Parameters, Annex III of Climate Change 2014: Mitigation of Climate Change. Contribution of Working Group III to the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (2014)
  • Color Scale: The color scales are taken from colorbrewer and have been slightly modified.
  • The project is part of the course "Data Visualization" in the winter semester 2022 / 2023 at Aarhus University.

Access

  • Live Instance: A live-instance can be found here: https://davis-electricity-germany.herokuapp.com/ (until end of January 2023)
  • Executable Version: A electron .exe can be found in the release
  • Local: use npm local or ng serve to deploy a local instance