https://github.com/kkulma/carbon-intensity-app

A web app showing how much electricity is made from renewable sources in different parts of UK
https://github.com/kkulma/carbon-intensity-app

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A web app showing how much electricity is made from renewable sources in different parts of UK

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/kkulma/carbon-intensity-app
• Owner: KKulma
• Created: 2021-02-17T21:56:15.000Z (almost 4 years ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2024-06-11T06:15:12.000Z (6 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-06-11T17:30:31.877Z (6 months ago)
• Topics: carbon-footprint, dataforgood, docker, githubactions, rstats, shiny
• Language: R
• Homepage: http://kasiakulma.shinyapps.io/carbon-intensity-app
• Size: 85.1 MB
• Stars: 23
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 5
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md

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# How much electricity in UK comes from low-carbon sources?

Our electricity is not made equal and can be associated with higher or lower carbon intensity. How much of UK's electricity is produced using low-carbon sources? Has this proportion decreased or increased over time? [This Shiny app](https://kasiakulma.shinyapps.io/carbon-intensity-app/) will help answer these questions.

The web app and the underlying data pipeline was built using open source tools. Web app's front-end was built using Shiny, electricity composition was extracted from National Grid's [Carbon Intensity API](https://carbonintensity.org.uk/) using [{intensegRid}](https://kkulma.github.io/intensegRid/articles/intro-to-carbon-intensity.html) package. Data and deployment pipelines were developed using GitHub Actions: `schedule.yml` pulls the carbon intensity data from the API, saves it in `data/daily_ci.rds` file daily and pushes the changes to the repo; `deploy.yml` deploys the changes to the [shinyapps.io server](https://kasiakulma.shinyapps.io/carbon-intensity-app/) on push. 

## Getting started

### Run locally

#### Using Docker (+ docker-compose)

Move into repository's root directory and run the following command:

```

$ docker-compose up -d dev

```

Point your web browser to `http://localhost:8080`.

You can keep editing the source code: changes will be available instantly.

Once you're done, run:

```

$ docker-compose down

```