The genesis It was around the beginning of 2016 that I started becoming obsessed with how data could act as a catalyst to put humanity back on a sustainable…
Imagine you’re building a system that can decide the optimal time to charge electric vehicles or the optimal time to run hydrogen electrolyzers. If your goal is…
Both private and corporate electricity consumers have the ability to procure clean electricity with the ambition to fund the energy transition. However, do all…
As I write this introduction, I have been working as a data scientist for Electricity Maps for about 8 months. Overall, I am responsible, together with the…
At the core of Electricity Maps lies the processing of large amounts of electricity data. For every zone supported, we fetch multiple data entries regarding…
The climate crisis is here. The stakes have never been higher for corporate and institutional sustainability to be firmly rooted in science and drive as much…
Electricity can be generated in many different ways, each with their own environmental footprint. As a concerned citizen (or as a responsible company), I might…
At Electricity Maps, our goal is to build products that make it easier for everyone to reduce their carbon footprint. Today, we’re releasing a new project that…
Illustration from Google’s blogpost On Earth Day, Google, one of the world’s most influential companies and one of the biggest data center operators, revealed…
When looking for ways to make a meaningful impact in the fight against climate change, we often look for leverage points - areas where changes will make an…
More and more organisations are embracing mono-repositories as it makes dependency management simpler (read more here). However, implementing and maintaining a…
Consider those two questions: How much am I emitting by consuming electricity at a certain time? What are the emissions avoided if I decide to consume…
