Europe's energy map
Every country has its own outline and responds to the mouse: hover it for its demand right now, its mix by source and its import-export balance. A click opens the full dashboard.
35 of 40 systems liveEurope right now
Demand and generation across the whole continent. Summed from 35 of 40 systems. The most delayed one published 2 h 32 min ago.
Why the map is drawn on the server
The projection is Lambert conformal conic, with standard parallels at 40° and 65° north — the usual projection for Europe. Mercator would have been simpler, but it stretches the north: Norway would appear larger than Spain. On a map where area suggests importance, that misleads.
The outlines come from Natural Earth, public domain, simplified from 819 KB to 22 KB with no visible difference at this scale. A mapping library would have added 200 KB and a WebGL canvas for 39 static outlines — and the map would no longer have been indexable, nor visible before the JavaScript loaded.