Hi Danny, WESM has a Luzon-only chart. I think this is good enough for our purposes. You can download either a PDF or a CSV version. Perhaps it can be downloaded 3-5 mins after every hour. What is missing from the chart is a horizontal red line representing supply. For our purposes, let's make this a programmable target we can set ourselves. Thus we can have several dry runs setting a relatively easy target muna, regardless of actual supply, and see whether we can keep demand below the target. Then in subsequent dry runs, we can keep lowering the target. This will feel like a massive multi-player online game, using switches at home and office instead of joysticks!
So the software we need has to do something like this: - download the PDF or CSV Luzon file from WESM every 3-5 mins after the hour - add the target megawatts as a red horizontal line - generate the jpeg/png graph. - upload to server for mirroring/download by everyone else. You don't need to touch the date/hour. We should use what is on the WESM chart. We just need to add the red horizontal line (the line we all want to avoid). Any other volunteers? It would be nice to have something going by Easter Sunday or Monday... I'm also working on it, but my python skills are somewhat inadequate for some of the more difficult portions of this task. Greetings to all pluggers, Obet Verzola PS. A peaceful Holy Week to you Mr. fooler! Maybe your extraordinary programming expertise can help in this activity. On Mon, 30 Mar 2015 07:14:50 +0000 Danny Ching <[email protected]> wrote: > there is a link to get the PDF of the chart. > > http://www.wesm.ph/chart/export/total_dmd_export.php?date=20150330&hour=14 > > We just replace the date and the hour. > > I'll try to check the source code of the website to see if we can > trigger the download link (using scripts) for the PNG/JPG version. > > On Sun, Mar 29, 2015 at 10:26 PM Roberto Verzola <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Danny Ching <[email protected]> wrote: > > > My servers are at your disposal. :) > > > > > > > Hi Danny, > > > > In case more come forward to offer their Linux servers to mirror the > > load curve, we will have to coordinate things, to avoid overloading > > our source of the real-time display. My suggestion is for only one > > to get the image from the source. Let us call it our main mirror. > > Then everybody else has to be convinced to get it from our main > > mirror, not from the original source. Otherwise, the source might > > balk at the extra load and restrict access. > > > > This is the kind of display I have in mind: http://www.wesm.ph/ > > inner.php/the_market/wholesale/market_data_and_reports/ > > daily_market_demand_and_lwap/luzon_and_visayas. > > > > The WESM display above is not real-time (it's updated every hour). > > In case we can't get any real-time display, we might have to make > > do with this one. One complication: it seems the display above is > > not an image file, I had to grab the image from my screen. It may > > need a little programming to grab the image every 15 mins or so and > > then save it in a format that facilitates further mirroring. You > > know much more about this than I do, I'm sure. > > > > You can start testing with above image now, and if we manage to > > negotiate a more-frequently updated site, we can just change the > > source URL. > > > > Also, may I suggest that anyone else who wants to volunteer their > > servers for this activity tag the real-time image with the term "no > > brownouts in summer real-time display". This is the term we will ask > > everyone to google, if they want the display. > > > > By the way, in case anyone who wants to be closer to the action, you > > can attend our brainstorming session this Tues, 4pm at the PRRM > > office near Capitol Medical Center. (You can find the PRRM office > > via Googlemaps.) Pls email (or text me: 0939-117-8999) if you > > intend to attend. > > > > Greetings to all pluggers, > > > > Obet Verzola > > > > > > On Fri, 27 Mar 2015 04:14:36 +0000 > > Danny Ching <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > My servers are at your disposal. :) > > > > > > On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 11:53 AM Roberto Verzola > > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > Dear pluggers, > > > > > > > > Here's my interview yesterday (March 25, Wed 9am) with Howie > > > > Severino in his News To Go program, on my "No brownouts in > > > > summer" proposal. > > > > > > > > http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/story/459298/scitech/ > > > > science/solar-power-and-bayanihan-can-solve-phl-power- > > > > crisis-says-scientist > > > > > > > > If the government accepts the suggestion, I will need help from > > > > those who run Web hosts to mirror the real-time display of the > > > > electricity load curve. > > > > > > > > If anyone among you knows Energy Sec. Petilla personally, I hope > > > > you can help me convince him to try the idea out. > > > > > > > > Greetings to all, > > > > > > > > Obet > > > > _________________________________________________ > > > > Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List > > > > http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug > > > > Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph > > > > > > > > _________________________________________________ > > Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List > > http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug > > Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph > > _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
