An important part of making grid-aware websites possible is having access to near real-time data about a user's energy grid. For our initial implementation of this project we've use the Electricity Maps API for that - requiring anyone who'd like to implement the library for their own website to also have an API key.
We've recently become aware of the changes to the API limits for free use - going from limited live data for all zones to live data for a single zone. The single zone limit makes it really hard for developers to meaningfully consider adopting Grid-aware Websites for production web projects, given the distributed nature of most website user bases.
This issue has been created for visibility of this change. We are in contact with Electricity Maps to see if there can be some changes/concessions made in their free tier that would enable access to data for more zones.
An important part of making grid-aware websites possible is having access to near real-time data about a user's energy grid. For our initial implementation of this project we've use the Electricity Maps API for that - requiring anyone who'd like to implement the library for their own website to also have an API key.
We've recently become aware of the changes to the API limits for free use - going from limited live data for all zones to live data for a single zone. The single zone limit makes it really hard for developers to meaningfully consider adopting Grid-aware Websites for production web projects, given the distributed nature of most website user bases.
This issue has been created for visibility of this change. We are in contact with Electricity Maps to see if there can be some changes/concessions made in their free tier that would enable access to data for more zones.