Grid energy load, in one paragraph

grid-energy-load in one paragraph, for anyone deciding whether it is worth downloading.

8,760 rows, 7 columns, one row per hour. A year of hourly electricity demand, renewable generation, temperature and wholesale price for one balancing area — including the hours when price goes negative.

Every dataset here is synthetic, which is a deliberate trade. It costs realism and buys three things: we can ship it CC0 with no licence trap, we can bake in the exact quirk a lesson needs, and nobody's real records end up in a tutorial.

Something to try: Forecast the next 48 hours; beat a seasonal-naive baseline before anything fancy. The SQL playground has it loaded already, and the data explorer will profile every column in one pass if you would rather look before you query.

select *
from grid_energy_load
limit 20;

The file is generated from a fixed seed, so the CSV you download today is byte-identical to the one from last year. That matters more than it sounds: it means a lesson can say "row 412 is the interesting one" and still be right in eighteen months.

Download it, break it, keep it. CC0 — no attribution required, no account, no email.