{"id":1729,"date":"2022-07-19T14:48:21","date_gmt":"2022-07-19T18:48:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/?p=1729"},"modified":"2022-07-21T13:12:29","modified_gmt":"2022-07-21T17:12:29","slug":"live-monitoring-of-electricity-consumption-in-ontario","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/2022\/07\/19\/live-monitoring-of-electricity-consumption-in-ontario\/","title":{"rendered":"Live Monitoring of Electricity Consumption in Ontario"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Today I came across Gridwatch<\/a>. This is an interesting web app that provides a live monitoring of Ontario’s current electrical production and consumption.<\/p>\n\n\n

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From: Environment Canada<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

As the screen capture shows, we have a heat warning today. This situation is currently being shared by UK and Europe, where they are experiencing temperature in excess of 40\u00baC, clearly much worse than we have it here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The hype of these high temperatures in the media caused me to wonder what is our current electrical consumption?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Which lead me to do a quick search on Google, and resulted in me finding the Gridwatch web app, and its home page:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Gridwatch Home Screen (click to enlarge)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Aside from how much electricity we are using, the most interesting part is the CO2e number which is currently at 81g\/kWh. Since my solar installation, I have generated 6,450 kWh of electricity through the use of my solar panels from April 12 to today. Do some simple math, this means I have prevented 522 kg<\/mark> (~1\/2 tonne) of CO2 emissions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a previous post<\/a>, I mentioned that an average person in Canada uses around 14.2 tons of CO2 per year. From this perspective, we are just placing a dent on our overall CO2 footprint. However in this Reuters article<\/a>, it claims that we have to remove 1 billion tonnes of CO2. If we do some rough math, the average per capita onus is (1 billion tonnes \/ 7 billion people) = 143 kg. Given our household is 4 people, we have an obligation to remove 572 kg<\/mark> of CO2 to meet the goal of 1 billion tonnes of CO2 worldwide removal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I say we are pretty close! Okay, we can obviously do more and we will.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today I came across Gridwatch. This is an interesting web app that provides a live monitoring of Ontario’s current electrical production and consumption. As the screen capture shows, we have a heat warning today. This situation is currently being shared by UK and Europe, where they are experiencing temperature in excess of 40\u00baC, clearly much … Continue reading “Live Monitoring of Electricity Consumption in Ontario”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-solar"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7V6i8-rT","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1729"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1734,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1729\/revisions\/1734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}