What's New
What is new on World Power Monitor: a plain, dated list of pages, data and features added to the site, newest first, from rankings and maps to prices and tools.
A running list of what has been added to World Power Monitor, newest first. This is for readers, not a technical changelog: it does not list every small fix, only what changed for someone using the site.
20 October 2026
19 October 2026
- A cookie choices prompt: Accept required or Accept all, remembered on your device and changeable from the footer
- Cite this page: ready made APA and BibTeX citations on data pages
- The data API now has an OpenAPI description and quick start examples in five languages
- Live data pipeline status on the Data status page
- How this site is made and how AI is used, a new section on the methodology page
18 October 2026
- What households pay: retail electricity prices for households and businesses across Europe, with and without taxes, from Eurostat
- A menu on phones and tablets, a tidier footer and a back to top button on every page
10 October 2026
- Four more languages for the country pages: Italian, Japanese, Indonesian and Turkish
- Grid twins: which countries have almost the same electricity mix, with the five closest on every country page
- US states: electricity mix, records and coal power by state
- When electricity is cheapest in Europe, price gaps between neighbouring zones, and how solar pulls midday prices down
- Ten more major blackouts added to the grid failures history, from Tokyo 2011 to Chile 2025
4 October 2026
- Data analysis hub: every analytical page on the site, grouped by the question it answers
- Who added the most electricity: where world generation growth came from, by country and by fuel
- Peak coal and peak emissions: which countries have passed their peak, and how far below it they are
- Pace to a clean grid: each country's recent low carbon momentum carried forward, as a comparison not a forecast
- Adoption curves: how fast solar and wind went from 1% to 20% in each country
- Weather exposure: whose hydro, wind and solar output swings most from year to year
- Summer and winter peaks: which countries use the most electricity for cooling and which for heating
- Country explorer: plot any two measures against each other for every country
2 October 2026
- Electricity mix by country: every country as a stacked bar of its fuels, sortable and filterable
- World electricity counters: generation and power sector CO2 ticking along, estimated from the latest annual rate
- Year in review: the biggest movers, new milestones and headline numbers of each recent year
- Seasonal heatmaps on country pages, showing when each country uses the most electricity and generates the cleanest
27 September 2026
- Notable grid failures: six major blackouts, from 2003 to 2025, each with a cited account
- Country pages now link to the major blackouts that hit their grid
- On the anniversary of a major blackout, the daily fact is about that event
- Two new rankings: the countries that lean hardest on imported electricity, and those that export the biggest share of theirs
- Each continent page gained a map of its countries coloured by low carbon share
- The home page now shows the generation mix chart beside the daily fact
23 September 2026
- Which countries import and export the most electricity
- A page for each continent: Africa, Asia, North America, South America and Oceania
- Every RSS feed the site publishes, listed in one place
- Flags added next to country names throughout the site
22 September 2026
- The home page now leads with a generation summary and a two ring mix chart
- The countries page gained a searchable, sortable table with flags
- Every fuel page gained a world map, data downloads and matching news stories
- A Fuels menu to jump straight to any fuel type
- What US households pay for electricity, state by state
- A year by year timeline of world electricity since 2000
- A glossary of the terms used across the site
- A trivia quiz built from the site's own data
- Embeddable badges for any country, for a README or a blog
- The site can now be added to a phone home screen like an app
21 September 2026
- Alerts for unusual grid conditions: record demand, low wind, price spikes
- A tracker for hours of negative electricity prices in Europe
- Maps of electricity flows between grids, for Europe and North America
- Trackers for coal, solar, wind, nuclear and gas leaving or entering the mix
- Installed capacity and how hard each country's power plants work
- An animated bar chart race of the world's biggest generators since 2000
- How accurate grid operators' day ahead demand forecasts are
- How wind and solar affect European electricity prices
- The daily demand pattern of major grids, including California's duck curve
- A free JSON API for developers
- The site is now available in Spanish, German, French and Portuguese
- A page showing how fresh each data source is
- A press kit with headline figures and downloadable charts
- Look up which US grid serves a ZIP code
- A follow-along RSS feed for each individual grid
20 September 2026
- Live day ahead prices and grid pages for 50 European bidding zones
- Records and rankings: the cleanest, dirtiest, biggest and fastest changing grids
- A monthly review of world electricity
- Tools to compare countries, estimate a carbon footprint, and find the cleanest hours
- Free CSV and JSON downloads, and embeddable charts
- A weekly digest of facts and news (email signup not yet open)
19 September 2026
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