Missing grids: Australia NT

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Starting a spot to aggregate details around the various power networks in Australia's Northern Territory.

Discussion rather than feature request, as its not detailed enough to act on yet.

Overview

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Territory_Generation

From brief reading, there are three main grids - Darwin and surrounds, Alice Springs, and Tennant Creek.

https://www.powerwater.com.au/about/what-we-do/power-networks-and-supply

A number of smaller grids exist too.

There is an energy market operator.
They produce some forecasting and demand data, daily, in an excel format.
There does not appear to be real time data.
There are details of various generators available, potentially enough to estimate.

https://ntesmo.com.au/ - some CSV format data for demand and forecast, alice springs

https://territorygeneration.com.au/about-us/our-power-stations/ various details of generators, perhaps suitable to estimate with.

Things to explore:

• Geojson or similar of power networks
• Of the published data, does any of it align to electricitymap?
• what is the roadmap for this

Tennant Creek Grid

Geometry

https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/11716689 - also probably smaller than the actual grid

Alice Springs Grid

Geometry

https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/9045378 - probably not complete; but it covers a major population centre.

Data available

Demand

CSV and JSON format

https://ntesmo.com.au/data/energy-dashboard/resources/newapis/aws_alice_forecast_api/_nocache?SQ_ASSET_CONTENTS_RAW

{
  "demand": [
    [
      "2022-07-26T09:25+09:30",
      24.3
    ],
    [
      "2022-07-26T09:30+09:30",
      23.9
    ],
    ....

Units of demand are MW, based on charts available.

Seems like a good fit for:
https://github.com/electricitymap/electricitymap-contrib/wiki/Building-a-new-parser#fetch_consumption

Darwin to Katherine Grid

https://openinframap.org/#6.62/-13.552/131.67 has some details of the darwin grid

Geometry

Is it worthwhile doing the town boundaries + 20km radius of the main high voltage line to represent this?

Demand

It seem like there is also NT wide data for demand, on a daily basis/published historically with pricing - ie: 100MW-180MW shown here.

https://ntesmo.com.au/data

Roadmap

https://territoryrenewableenergy.nt.gov.au/strategies-and-plans/electricity-system-plans - 320MW future renewables hub

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I've emailed https://ntesmo.com.au/contact asking about other data sources.