uk-wind-generation-analytics

Analysis of historic wind generation in the UK, relative to prevailing weather, demand and comparing to other generation sourcces.

Data sources

UK Government: Renewable Energy Planning Database

Elexon SBC Insights Solution

Weather data from Stormglass: https://stormglass.io/ with API documentation here: https://docs.stormglass.io/

Also considered: https://www.meteomatics.com/en/weather-api/

Inspiration

https://renewables-map.robinhawkes.com/

National Grid: Live and supporting open source GitHub repo

Deploying the solution

Pre-requisites

• Azure subscription for permanent storage of data, storing secrets and observability.
• VS Code
• Docker (or equivalent)
• Git
• Your user ID on Azure. az ad user list --display-name "Barry Smart"

Steps

Pull down the repo locally.

Open the repo in VS Code.

Open the folder in a dev container. This will give you the Python environment, Azure CLI and bicep tooling required to deploy and run the solution locally.

Log in to Azure:

az login

From the interactive prompt, select the tenent / subscription you want to deploy the Azure resources into.

If required, create a new resource group, for example:

az group create --name rg-uk-wind-generation --location uksouth

Before you log into Azure and deploy your resources, you will need:

• An API key for Stormglass (you can start using the service for free)
• Your user ID on Azure. You can get this through the Azure CLI, for example: az ad user list --display-name "Barry Smart"

Now deploy the resources into this resource group:

az deployment group create --resource-group rg-uk-wind-generation --template-file azure/create-azure-resources.bicep

You will be interactively prompted for the details you gathered above:

• appNamePrefix: for example, you could respond ukwg for "UK Wind Generation".
• environmentType: for example, you could respond dev to create resources tagged for development environment.
• stormglassApiKey: provide the API string provided on the Stormglass.io web site for your personal API key.
• userId: your Azure Entra user ID as provided by the az ad user list --display-name "Barry Smart" where "Barry Smart" is replaced with your own user name.