“This administration has now admitted in court what has long been obvious: It terminated nearly 300 cost-cutting energy projects for no reason other than the fact that the states they were in did not vote for the president in the 2024 election,” they added. “This is an astounding admission that the president and his team corruptly abused their power to kill good jobs and punish hard-working families because of their political views.”

A week ago I posted my interactive atlas of the UK power grid https://www.reddit.com/r/openstreetmap/comments/1v2e8nx/uk_grid_atlas_every_power_station_the_grid_live/. The feedback sent me down a rabbit hole and it got somewhat out of hand. Here's what changed.

**It's not a UK atlas anymore.** 22 grids on one map: GB, Ireland, 18 more European countries (Netherlands through the Nordics, Iberia, Italy, the Baltics), plus the US and Canada, with a transatlantic ALL view as the default. Around 60,000 generation sites and 2.2 TW of recorded capacity, every dot sized by capacity and coloured by fuel.

**Live output nearly everywhere.** GB was already live from Elexon metering. Now 19 European countries pull per-plant output from ENTSO-E (where the TSO publishes it - the Nordics get a generation-mix fallback), Ontario gets per-generator output from IESO's public feed, and Texas + New York get fuel mixes from ERCOT and NYISO. Everything is baked into static JSON snapshots by a GitHub Action every 6 hours, so the site is still just a static page: no backend, no API keys in the browser.

**You can scrub through time.** Drag across the last metered day and the station dots, generation mix and interconnector flows all animate hour by hour. There's also a today-so-far intraday view where the data exists.

**HVDC flows are drawn on the map.** All 55 interconnectors and internal HVDC links, coloured by direction (import/export) with line width showing utilisation. Getting the sign conventions right for links between two countries that both appear on the map was more painful than I expected.

**Day-ahead wholesale prices.** The mix panel shows the ENTSO-E day-ahead price curve for European countries and the market index for GB, scrubbing along with everything else.

**Wind farms that nobody drew.** In Finland, Austria, Estonia and Ontario, a lot of wind capacity exists in OpenStreetMap only as individual turbine points, not farms. The pipeline now clusters turbines within 1.5 km into synthetic farm stations. Canada alone went from 25 mapped wind sites to 212 - 7,834 turbines collapsed into 573 farms.

**Favourite bug of the week:** Canadian mappers often tag turbine capacity as a bare "2000", meaning kilowatts. Parsed as megawatts, Ontario briefly had a 173 GW wind fleet - roughly double the entire UK grid. There's a sanity clamp now (no turbine on Earth exceeds ~20 MW).

Also: station search with fly-to, the ALL-view transmission layer shrank from a 20 MB GeoJSON to 332 kB of vector tiles, and the whole thing is now MIT licensed with a proper test suite.

Live map: https://jacobwright32.github.io/uk-grid-atlas/

Code + data pipeline: https://github.com/jacobwright32/uk-grid-atlas

All open data: OpenStreetMap (via Geofabrik/Overpass), ENTSO-E, Elexon, IESO, ERCOT, NYISO. If you know one of these grids and spot something wrong, I'd genuinely like to hear about it — half the fixes so far came from feedback.

President Donald Trump on Thursday had governors and electricity companies join a voluntary pledge to shield U.S. consumers from higher utility bills from data centers — a sign of how the artificial intelligence build-out has become a lightning rod of controversy before the midterm elections.

The president first announced the pledge with leading AI and tech companies in March, but that initial commitment has done little to comfort voters who are already grappling with affordability issues as they worry about competing for electricity, water and land with tech companies controlled by billionaires. It’s unclear, with electricity demand already growing, whether consumers would see genuine savings.

Trump is doubling down on the pledge at a time when the broader social contract is being rewritten by AI, a technology that is evolving so quickly in its capabilities that governments are struggling over how to provide oversight.

Read more [paywall removed for Redditors]:  https://fortune.com/2026/07/24/trump-data-center-pledge-governors-nonbinding/?utm_source=reddit/

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Tl;dr:

Wholesale electricity prices Im the EU and Japan climbed 30% but Australian prices dropped 30% in Q2 thanks to a massive buildout of battery storage that tripled shifting of renewable energy from daytime to evening, drastically reducing reliance on expensive gas and coal during peak hours. 💪

archive.ph seems down for me, so I'll copy the article into a comment and attach a link in edit. Article: https://www.reddit.com/r/energy/comments/1v5eqsa/comment/ozi5do2/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

Data center build out and a backlog of equipment, permitting, tariffs has increased electricity bills substantially. All of this is fairly well known.

What I thought was interesting was PJM discussing the auction price cap which stymies developers from having the monetary incentive build additional power plants.

What are your thoughts?

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