[Data Issue]: Electricity generation at La Réunion (RE) misrepresented

[Charles-Fache]

When did this happen?

2024-10-04 15-29

What zones are affected?

RE

What is the problem?

Disclaimer : this is the first time I dig a bit into how electricitymaps works, please tell me if I got something wrong.

Electricitymaps displays electricity generation for RE for hourly, daily and monthly ranges as using fossil fuel even though it now is 100% renewable thanks to using biomass (a lot of liquid biomass in particular) where fossil fuels were previously used.

Data from the source cited on electricity maps shows no fossil electricity generation (at least by browsing it as a human in a browser, I didn't test the API).

I took a look at the FR_O parser which I believe might be the culprit and it seems that the data is actually pulled from this other open-data site by EDF instead (except when no date-time is provided ?), for which I didn't take a look at what the API returns but I suspect this may be the cause.

Edit : I've only looked into RE but this mix-up between biomass and fossil fuels might also happen for the rest of the regions covered by the FR_O parser