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Transparent infrastructure intelligence.
TerraGrid Atlas is a student-built research interface for exploring global power infrastructure. It treats the map as the primary workspace, then layers charts and source labels around it so users can understand what is known, estimated, and still missing.
What TerraGrid Atlas is
TerraGrid Atlas is a map-first infrastructure intelligence app for exploring how power systems, data center load, market signals, and grid regions are distributed across the world.
How data is collected
The MVP uses local sample datasets shaped around real public-data categories: power plants, substations, transmission corridors, grid regions, country energy statistics, price nodes, load snapshots, and alerts.
Live vs sample data
Records are labeled as sample, estimated, or live. This version ships with sample and estimated data so it can run without paid services, while adapter boundaries are ready for real providers.
Limitations
Transmission geometry is simplified, some data center loads are estimated, and market prices are representative. The app is meant for exploration and research context, not operational dispatch.
Future improvements
Planned upgrades include live regional adapters, country geometry joins, improved facility deduplication, richer OSM imports, database-backed history, and user-saved research views.
Intended users
Students can use the atlas to learn how grid geography, generation mix, and infrastructure density vary.
Researchers can use it as a lightweight prototype for combining public datasets into one interface.
Citizens can use it to better understand the physical systems behind electricity, digital infrastructure, and reliability alerts.
Provider adapter roadmap
OpenStreetMap / Overpass
adapter-readysubstations / transmission-lines / power-plants
Global Power Plant Database
adapter-readypower-plants
World Bank / IEA / Ember style country metrics
adapter-readycountry-energy-stats / generation-mix
ENTSO-E style public load and price data
region-limitedlive-metrics / price-nodes / alerts
EIA style power and fuel mix data
region-limitedcountry-energy-stats / live-metrics
Data limitations
The included dataset is intentionally transparent demo data. Facility records are representative, not exhaustive. Transmission lines are simplified corridors. Price and load signals are sample or estimated unless a future adapter marks them live. The goal is to show a credible architecture and research workflow without pretending the MVP is an operational control-room source.