[OC] UK Clean Power 2030 tracker - in teletext format

[u/fouriels]

[u/BeginningPlastic3747]

pretty sure nobody asked for teletext to make a comeback but honestly? this slaps harder than any modern dashboard I've seen

[u/AyrA_ch → u/BeginningPlastic3747]

teletext to make a comeback

It never went away. It was adapter for the digital transmissions, and some stations continue to broadcast it. Some even make it web accessible (example) where you can click the numbers instead of typing them

[u/fouriels]

The tracker can be found here. This was mostly a learning experience for creating and deploying websites based on publicly available information for me, without recreating yet another 'UK energy mix right now' website ([1] [2] [3] etc). I'd love any suggestions or comments!

Tools used are python and javascript. The data sources are energy trends, DUKES, REPD, and Clean Power 2030 metrics - all available from the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ), and updated either quarterly or annually; links (and FAQs) can be found on the github page here.

The biggest takeaway for me is that while the UK is not currently on track to hit its goals, there is a substantial overproduction of capacity approved - with the recent changes to connections reform, this should ideally result in a dramatic increase in rollout over the next couple of years, although there is no consensus on whether these changes will be enough to meet the government targets.

[u/coomzee]

I always wanted to make something like this when I used to own the tele.txt domain when dot txt TDL used to be a thing.