Client story
Gridraven: power grid capacity from weather data
Background
Gridraven develops technology for optimising power grids and wanted to show that the world’s power grid can be modelled in real time together with weather data.
Challenge
Power grids rely on static line ratings and leave part of their capacity unused, because a line’s real capacity depends on the weather.
Solution
We built an interactive web demo that shows the world’s transmission grid on a map, adds wind and weather data and calculates in real time how much power a line can carry in different weather.
- TypeScript
- React
- Node.js
- PostgreSQL
- NestJS
- Prisma
- Terraform
Approach
Line data comes from OpenStreetMap; conductor parameters and weather data come from external APIs.
Result
The demo is publicly available on Gridraven’s website. By Gridraven’s own estimate, taking weather data into account gives about 30% more line capacity with 99% accuracy.