After CovidTracker and ViteMaDose, he is back. The 26-year-old engineer Guillaume Rozier, launched a new site on Thursday which, based on self-service data made available by RTE, makes it possible to compare electricity consumption, the power consumed of energy live quarter of hour by quarter of an hour in France compared to previous years. It is totally free to access and without advertising.
“How much electricity do we currently consume? Have we consumed less energy this month? What was the peak last year? “Writes Guillaume Rozier on his Twitter account. These are indeed the three main features of the site Trackmywatt.co.uk, “a site in the process of being created”, explains its creator. As usual, he drew quickly and soberly, “but we plan to add a lot of features in the coming weeks and in the coming months,” he told France Info on Friday.
Complementarity with EcoWatt
The engineer and data scientist also ensures that the EcoWatt indicator, created by RTE and which will now be available in the weather reports of the major national channels, should soon be integrated into the Track My Watt tool for the most complete energy forecast possible. “It is very important to teach and give more precise figures to the French people so that they can really measure and anticipate electricity consumption and electricity production. It is important to give them autonomy. “, specified Guillaume Rozier to France Info.
The latter had started working on the pandemic in March 2020, while finishing his engineering studies at Telecom Nancy, received the National Order of Merit in May 2021 for his work on ViteMaDose and CovidTracker, two sites therefore using already open source data.
An effective tool for achieving energy sobriety?
For the time being, the main question is of course whether France will survive the winter of 2022-23 without blackouts and other load shedding, while the war in Ukraine has increased the risk of energy shortages. Thanks to data processing, over the period from October 1 to 5, 2022, Track My Watt shows, for example, that energy consumption in France is up by 9.1% compared to the average for the same period on the previous three years.
While his new tool provides quick information on the state of resources and energy consumption in real time, he also has a longer-term goal: how to achieve sacrosanct energy sobriety, everyone is gargling at the moment, limiting the uses without depriving themselves too much? Guillaume Rozier’s tool has no magic recipe, but like CovidTracker and ViteMaDose, it could become essential in this new challenge.