🇫🇷🇩🇰 - Founder CEO @electricitymaps (formerly @tmrowco), using data & AI to build scalable solutions to Climate Change. Formerly @Snips @Google @IBMResearch
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It is with great pleasure that we're today announcing that we've raised €5M to scale our mission of enabling a data-driven decarbonization of electricity 🎉
Thank you for everyone who supported us and scrutinized us since the early stages of the journey 🙌
🚀Electricity Maps raised €5M to accelerate the data-driven decarbonization of electricity.
We're excited to be backed by investors @TransitionVC and @ReventVC, allowing us to grow our team and improve mapping the world’s electricity grid. Read more: techcrunch.com/2024/05/06/el…
Latest from the @ElectricityMaps blog: does the marginal power plant really exist?
Read more below 👇
electricitymaps.com/content/…
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In April, 10% of monthly global electricity came from solar for the first time🌞
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🚨 Grid alert - Major power outage in Spain and Portugal (Spanish version below)
The Iberian network was automatically disconnected from the European grid at 12:38 PM CET, leaving millions without power. This major power blackout hit Spain and Portugal, also affecting Andorra and some parts of France close to the border.
The Spanish TSO, Red Eléctrica (REE), expects to restore the supply in the next 6 to 10 hours. The causes of this major outage are still to be determined.
We are closely reporting the data shared by ENTSO-E and monitoring all updates coming from the Spanish TSO (REE), the French TSO Réseau de Transport d'Électricité (RTE) and other governmental sources to keep all users informed.
Spanish authorities have temporarily stopped all nuclear power supply due to safety reasons, as can be seen in the data visualization below. You can observe these and other related events in our app and see the effects on neighboring grids. Please note that there may be slight delays in the data.
Note: ENTSO-E (European Network of Transmission System Operators for Electricity) is the central point for the collection and publication of data related to the generation, transportation, and consumption of electricity across Europe.
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🚨 Alerta en el sistema eléctrico: Gran apagón en España y Portugal
La red ibérica se desconectó automáticamente de la red eléctrica europea a las 12:38 PM CET, dejando a millones de personas sin suministro eléctrico. Este gran apagón afectó a España y Portugal, impactando también a Andorra y a algunas zonas fronterizas de Francia.
Red Eléctrica de España (REE), el operador del sistema de transmisión español, prevé restablecer el suministro en un plazo de entre 6 y 10 horas. Las causas aún están por determinarse.
Estamos siguiendo de cerca los datos compartidos por ENTSO-E y monitorizando todas las actualizaciones provenientes de REE, del operador francés RTE y de otras fuentes oficiales para mantener informados a todos los usuarios.
Las autoridades españolas han detenido temporalmente la producción eléctrica de las centrales nucleares del país por motivos de seguridad, como puede observarse en la visualización de datos que mostramos a continuación.
Puedes seguir este y otros eventos relacionados en nuestra aplicación, donde también podrás ver los efectos en las redes eléctricas vecinas. Ten en cuenta que podrían producirse pequeños retrasos en la actualización de los datos.
Nota: ENTSO-E (Red Europea de Operadores de Sistemas de Transmisión de Electricidad) es el organismo central encargado de la recopilación y publicación de datos sobre generación, transporte y consumo de electricidad en toda Europa.
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India's solar generation is surging in 2025☀️
It's currently meeting almost 10% of total daily electricity generation...
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My annual decarbonization presentation is here.
200 slides, covering everything from water levels in Lake Gatún to sulfur dioxide emissions to ESG fund flows to Chinese auto exports to artificial intelligence.
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Our 2024 datasets are here! 📂🌎
As part of our ongoing commitment to decarbonizing the electricity grid, we released our free historical datasets — enabling companies around the globe to adopt more granular carbon accounting practices.
Get the datasets: portal.electricitymaps.com/d…
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🌎 We’re moving fast toward global coverage: Electricity Maps has just added over 110 new countries to the platform.
With greater coverage, we are equipping key drivers of change to reduce emissions and advance sustainability efforts — no matter where they operate.
Learn more: electricitymaps.com/news/glo…
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Let's make ai less carbon intensive 🌏
As machine learning models grow in size, so too does their carbon footprint. As AI scales, it's important that we quantify and mitigate these emissions.
In our new short course Carbon Aware Computing for GenAI Developers you'll learn from @googlecloud Developer Advocate Nikita Namjoshi how to:
- Query the ElectricityMaps API for real-time data on regional electricity grid carbon intensity
- Route your model training jobs to data centers in regions primarily powered by low-carbon sources like wind, solar, hydro and nuclear
- Measure the carbon footprint of your ML training, inference, storage and API usage with the Google Cloud's Carbon Footprint tool
- Optimize training job scheduling to run when clean energy is most abundant in a given region.
You can sign up here: deeplearning.ai/short-course…
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Great (and scary) visualization of 2024 daily temperatures compared to prior years by the BBC today. Evocative of the iconic Joy Division album cover from 1979: bbc.com/news/articles/cd7575…
Right now is *not* a good time to use electricity in Denmark (due to low wind). How do I know? Aside from checking @ElectricityMaps, I'm kept informed by my macOS status bar and by our office lightbulb (credit @FelixQvist).
Now that 2024 is over, we can start looking at trends in @ElectricityMaps. Two important observations for Germany:
- didn't have any nuclear power production in 2024
- reduced its carbon intensity from 371 to 333g CO2e/kWh
Play around with the data here: app.electricitymaps.com/zone…
Marginal for real-time decisions and average for accounting?
Julien Lavalley illustrates some of these insights of a recent paper in our newest blog post:
electricitymaps.com/blog/opt…
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Have you spotted the new zones on the app yet? 🌍👀
Thanks to our newest models, we have now added even more countries to #ElectricityMaps!
And we're just getting started — get ready to explore more zones soon: bit.ly/4gIgHe8
Let us know which country you want to see next!💬
New countries are popping up every day on @ElectricityMaps, as we've developed new models that extrapolate monthly and yearly data into hourly data, using load data, real-time weather data and much more.
Is there a country you'd like to see on our platform soon? Let us know!
We've added exports and storage to the @ElectricityMaps graphs 🎉
Over the last couple of days, roughly 10% of Germany's available electricity was stored used pumped hydro. This happened a bit after midnight, when consumption was low.
Does anyone know of publicly available short-term interconnector forecasts in the US, similarly to how @ENTSO_E publishes scheduled commercial exchanges?