ontario-electricity-demand-viz

Visualize Electricity Demand in Ontario

Prepared by Nathan K. Chan

To visit the project website, please visit: https://nathankchan.github.io/ontario-electricity-demand-viz/

To visit this project on Github, please visit: https://github.com/nathankchan/ontario-electricity-demand-viz

To access the online application, please visit: https://nathankchan.shinyapps.io/ontario-electricity-demand-viz/

Overview

This project hosts interactive visualizations of Ontario’s demand for electricity by year, date, and time of day.

Visit the app to generate custom visualizations of both market and Ontario-specific demand for electricity, including surface plots, line charts, and heat maps.

You can also access pre-rendered plots of Ontario’s Market Demand below.

Source data are published by the Independent Electricity System Operator (IESO) of Ontario and are available here.

For information on how to download and run this project, see Project Description.

List of Visualizations

Click on a link below to view the respective plot.

Comparions

Present to 2020

2019 to 2010

2009 to 2002

Project Description

This project requires R to be installed. If it is not installed, please visit r-project.org to download the latest version. This project also requires the following R packages to be installed:

tidyverse
plotly
htmlwidgets
shiny (for interactive Shiny app)

To run this project locally, download the repository and set your directory to the project directory. Then, run run.sh from terminal.

Annual hourly demand reports from IESO will be downloaded to {project_dir}/data, and 3D surface plots of these data will be provided in {project_dir}/plots. For example,

cd {project_dir}
source run.sh

To load the interactive Shiny app locally, run app.R from terminal and visit the link (e.g., http://127.0.0.1:{port}). Quit terminal (press CTRL+C) to close the app. For example,

cd {project_dir}
Rscript app.R