Prepared by Nathan K. Chan

To visit the project website, please visit: https://nathankchan.github.io/ontario-electricity-demand-viz/

To visit this project on Github, please visit: https://github.com/nathankchan/ontario-electricity-demand-viz

To access the online application, please visit: https://nathankchan.shinyapps.io/ontario-electricity-demand-viz/

This project hosts interactive visualizations of Ontario's demand for electricity by year, date, and time of day.

Visit the app to generate custom visualizations of both market and Ontario-specific demand for electricity, including surface plots, line charts, and heat maps.

You can also access pre-rendered plots of Ontario's Market Demand below.

Source data are published by the Independent Electricity System Operator (IESO) of Ontario and are available here.

For information on how to download and run this project, see Project Description.

Click on a link below to view the respective plot.

Comparions

1. 2018 to 2021 Ontario Hourly Market Demand
2. 2014 to 2017 Ontario Hourly Market Demand
3. 2010 to 2013 Ontario Hourly Market Demand
4. 2006 to 2009 Ontario Hourly Market Demand
5. 2002 to 2005 Ontario Hourly Market Demand

Present to 2020

1. 2022 Ontario Hourly Market Demand
2. 2021 Ontario Hourly Market Demand
3. 2020 Ontario Hourly Market Demand

2019 to 2010

1. 2019 Ontario Hourly Market Demand
2. 2018 Ontario Hourly Market Demand
3. 2017 Ontario Hourly Market Demand
4. 2016 Ontario Hourly Market Demand
5. 2015 Ontario Hourly Market Demand
6. 2014 Ontario Hourly Market Demand
7. 2013 Ontario Hourly Market Demand
8. 2012 Ontario Hourly Market Demand
9. 2011 Ontario Hourly Market Demand
10. 2010 Ontario Hourly Market Demand

2009 to 2002

1. 2009 Ontario Hourly Market Demand
2. 2008 Ontario Hourly Market Demand
3. 2007 Ontario Hourly Market Demand
4. 2006 Ontario Hourly Market Demand
5. 2005 Ontario Hourly Market Demand
6. 2004 Ontario Hourly Market Demand
7. 2003 Ontario Hourly Market Demand
8. 2002 Ontario Hourly Market Demand

This project requires R to be installed. If it is not installed, please visit r-project.org to download the latest version. This project also requires the following R packages to be installed:

• tidyverse
• plotly
• htmlwidgets
• shiny (for interactive Shiny app)

To run this project locally, download the repository and set your directory to the project directory. Then, run run.sh from terminal.

Annual hourly demand reports from IESO will be downloaded to {project_dir}/data, and 3D surface plots of these data will be provided in {project_dir}/plots. For example,

cd {project_dir}
source run.sh

To load the interactive Shiny app locally, run app.R from terminal and visit the link (e.g., http://127.0.0.1:{port}). Quit terminal (press CTRL+C) to close the app. For example,

cd {project_dir}
Rscript app.R