That was fun, a major power line that connects NJ to PA cut right though my neighborhood in NJ. It was interesting seeing how it connects and a little detail about the specs of the lines themselves.
Didn't know that's "a topic", although funnily enough, it has been on my mind lately. The impetus being households increasingly adopting solar, and batteries improving at a better pace finally.
I wondered if there might come a time in the somewhat near future, where people would decide to disconnect from the grid for good, eventually resulting in large parts of the electrical grid becoming unnecessary (possibly alongside related jobs) and being removed.
I then ran a calculation on our own electricity use vs. production, and came to my senses. Still, personally, I think it would be great if it became possible one day. Just really unsure how it would, based on our own data.
Utility electricity is pretty handy. Even if you have sufficient local generation and storage (assuming intermittent generation), a utility connection gives you flexibility to do maintenance and repairs without losing power.
But some people probably won't want to pay for that flexibility. If utility costs keep going up and local generation and storage costs keep going down, there's likely a point where utility power becomes undesirable for many. Unfortunately this probably increases costs for those still using utility power.
Those are really cool!
I was thinking of printing one that's like the California example (https://github.com/open-energy-transition/grid2poster/blob/m...). Where do people print posters nowadays?
Somewhat related:
https://openinframap.org/
That was fun, a major power line that connects NJ to PA cut right though my neighborhood in NJ. It was interesting seeing how it connects and a little detail about the specs of the lines themselves.
The aesthetics of this feel very similar to this project I saw on here a few months back. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46656834
The readme says it's heavily inspired by that one
Really nice and OET is great
For north america also look at this https://geovizzydesigns.myportfolio.com/electricity-grid-of-... , more complete only in the US since not rely on OSM
I see two examples, India and Africa. Both of which look great but Africa is not a country.
Neither is California. So?
> Grid2Poster supports countries, states, provinces and continents, as well as predefined regions.
Africa is not a country.
as much as 'Middle East and North Africa' - you just pass region in .json and name it whatever you want
I doubt that's a misconception held by the author.
Directly under the image of electrical grid connections in Africa is the caption:
I was really hoping these would be propaganda posters for (or against) your country’s grid.
Well, I know Africa is sparsely populated but the poster really puts it into perspective.
Didn't know that's "a topic", although funnily enough, it has been on my mind lately. The impetus being households increasingly adopting solar, and batteries improving at a better pace finally.
I wondered if there might come a time in the somewhat near future, where people would decide to disconnect from the grid for good, eventually resulting in large parts of the electrical grid becoming unnecessary (possibly alongside related jobs) and being removed.
I then ran a calculation on our own electricity use vs. production, and came to my senses. Still, personally, I think it would be great if it became possible one day. Just really unsure how it would, based on our own data.
Utility electricity is pretty handy. Even if you have sufficient local generation and storage (assuming intermittent generation), a utility connection gives you flexibility to do maintenance and repairs without losing power.
But some people probably won't want to pay for that flexibility. If utility costs keep going up and local generation and storage costs keep going down, there's likely a point where utility power becomes undesirable for many. Unfortunately this probably increases costs for those still using utility power.