Summary of recent additions.
August 2024:
Added percentile 10 (p10) and percentile 90 (p90) statistics for most solar and wind energy plots.
Updated Eurostat energy balances for year 2022, edition May 2024, in
eurostat-2024.
April 2024:
Added Eurostat energy balances for year 2022, edition March 2024, in
eurostat-2024.
July 2023:
Extended the solar and wind tables in the
forecast data for Belgium and updated to latest data release of Elia.
Added links to PVGIS 5.2 data for the selected location in the
intermittency page.
Minor corrections to the
carbon page.
May 2023:
Updated
storage article to version 1.6, included cost definitions and updated links.
April 2023:
October 2022:
Fixed errors due to php upgrade. Added navigation to the
links page.
September 2022:
Edition 2022 - April - of the Eurostat yearly energy balances is now available. Find an up to date summary with tables and plots in
eurostat-2022.
August 2022:
Added boxplots for solar PV, onshore and offshore wind energy in Belgium on
forecast page, also made browsing over forecast data based plots more convenient.
Minor, renamed solar page name to heating.
June 2022:
Added statistics for January..May to the
forecast page.
Updated
links to version 1.4 .
Updated
storage article to version 1.5, simplified table 4 and corrected broken links.
Added figures of hourly averages for Belgium on the
forecast page, covering years 2013 to 2022.
Rewrote the
home page + updated version numbers and dates of updated pages.
February 2022:
Updated the references on the
solar page.
October 2021:
Elia extended its open data, also providing load statistics. Extended
forecast page to include daily solar and wind as percentage of total electricity load.
Minor fixes in the
carbon page, updated to version 1.2.
Made a summary of solar and wind renewables for Belgium in
forecast/BE, also available in the Renewables topic on the home page.
August 2021:
Updated
links to version 1.3 .
May 2021:
Edition 2021 - April - of the Eurostat yearly energy balances is now available. Find an up to date summary with tables and plots in
eurostat-2021.
January 2021:
Added
monthly overviews of solar and wind energy for the Flanders and Wallonia regions in Belgium, as well as their monthly electricty demand.
November 2020:
Added
solar page to see if solar energy is able to power household in Belgium.
October 2020:
Added storage efficiency and power to gas density and conversion efficiencies to
storage page.
September 2020:
Added daily boxplots for Belgium on the
forecast page.
August 2020:
Added data for Belgium on the
forecast page.
Added a
tax page on carbon taxes and funding considerations.
July 2020
Visualized solar and wind energy fluctuations on an hourly, daily and seasonal time frame in the
intermittency page, as well as seasonal space heating and cooling demand.
Added a comparison with other energy storage techniques in the
storage page.
June 2020
May 2020
Updated battery production capacity estimates in the
storage page; and added a comparison with natural gas and oil storage.
March 2020
February 2020
Updated energy balances to
Eurostat edition January 2020. Main changes are: relative differences to the previous year are now added and the tables of the last five years are available as well.
February 2020
November 2019
October 2019
August 2019
June 30th 2019
Added a few plots on
carbon emissions.
June 22nd 2019
Space heating and/or cooling often dominate energy demand in buildings. Therefore we compare monthly energy production with heating degree days and cooling degree days, which are indicators of heating and cooling demand. The result is shown in the 'avarage' plot, eg for
Belgium. For most places we find that the heating and cooling load are not in balance with solar production. For the ninja/Europe models wind is also included, and for wind there are also significant imbalances with heating and cooling demand.
April 2019
Added page with useful
links.
February 2019
Minor, provide mobile friendly layout and added sharing buttons
January 2019
December 2018
Minor, updated terms of use to v1.3, mainly making them more compact and easy to read.
September 2018
Initial release of
post processed PVGIS5 data, providing statistics for solar energy, heating and cooling degree days and wind energy using a simple wind energy model.