Total electricity number seems to be miscalculated for Belgium in the year 2023 (no idea if this is more general)

[SonoDavid]

For Belgium, I used the data in the app to calcuate the total amount of generated energy.

By looking at the bars, I got the following numbers for the energy production of all corresponding sources:

Biomass | 3,01
Water | 0,217
Sun| 7,19
Wind | 14,1
Nuclear| 31,3
Pump| 0,336
Gas | 15,3
Oil| 0,0014
Thermal | 5,97

Which gives me in Excel the total of 77,4244

The app seems to suggest the total of the year 2023 was 95,2 TwH. Why this difference between my calculated number and the total in the app?

[VIKTORVAV99]

For Belgium, I used the data in the app to calcuate the total amount of generated energy.

By looking at the bars, I got the following numbers for the energy production of all corresponding sources:

Biomass | 3,01

Water | 0,217

Sun| 7,19

Wind | 14,1

Nuclear| 31,3

Pump| 0,336

Gas | 15,3

Oil| 0,0014

Thermal | 5,97

Which gives me in Excel the total of 77,4244

The app seems to suggest the total of the year 2023 was 95,2 TwH. Why this difference between my calculated number and the total in the app?

Hi, it's because it is not production but consumption you are looking at and the total calculation includes exchanges but due to some technical limitations at the moment we can't show these in the app for daily, monthly or yearly.

We hope to adress this soon but I have no timeline on when that might happen.

[SonoDavid]

So the total of 77,4 is the total consumption of Belgium while the total of 95,2 is total production of Belgium but it includes exchanges for example with neighbouring countries, correct?

[VIKTORVAV99]

No neither of that is correct, the 95,2 is the available electricity which include production + imports. Exports are not taken account into this calculation at all.

77.4 is the production.

[SonoDavid]

Thanks for the answer!
So it would be hard to calculate the actual CO2 emission of energy consumption in Belgium for that year? Since only info about locally produced energy is available in the app but none about the imported energy from other countries? I’m asking because I would want to use the total emission of energy consumption for that year in Belgium.

[VIKTORVAV99]

Thanks for the answer!

So it would be hard to calculate the actual CO2 emission of energy consumption in Belgium for that year? Since only info about locally produced energy is available in the app but none about the imported energy from other countries? I’m asking because I would want to use the total emission of energy consumption for that year in Belgium.

To calculate it yourself using the data in the app would be hard but we are already doing this in the backend and sending the pre calculated values.

For Belgium in 2023 it was:

(The red dot is just me accidentally painting a red dot on the screenshot so you can ignore that...)

If you need to calculate it yourself I'd recommend using our API instead.