If you were in charge of balancing supply and demand, how would you do it? How would you balance the needs of people to heat and light their homes, hospitals, schools, factories, and offices with the need to reduce overall energy consumption and shift the remaining energy generation from environmentally harmful to environmentally friendly sources?
Numbers are based on 2019 UK electricity generation and energy consumption data, converted to Thousand Tonnes of Oil Equivalent (ktoe) for comparison purposes.
To make fine-tuned adjustments, select a slider and use the arrow keys on your keyboard (Page Up and Page Down take bigger steps).
Electricity generated
Energy consumed
Energy gap
Consumption met by electricity
The electricity dial represents the total electricity generated, whilst the consumption dial represents the total energy consumed from all sources by all sectors. The gap represents total energy consumption minus electricity generated, which is assumed to be using fossil fuels. Your task is to bridge the energy gap by matching electricity generated to total energy consumed. The black mark on each dial shows the 2019 value. Click or tap any dial to put it, and the sliders it adds up, back to their 2019 values.
The dials above show the number of individual power stations or generation farms of each type generating more than 20MW / 0.00172ktoe.
How Great Britain is generating its electricity right now, compared with your budget.
This is of course an oversimplification, but it gives users a general idea of the complexities involved. Further data refinement will be added in due course. For people who care about cookies, the only cookies going on here are Google Analytics ones.
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Made with the help of Claude from the original Energytron.