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node:   https://shwarm.org/w/light-up-grey-zones
kind:   shwarm
title:  "light up five grey zones on electricity maps"
state:  live · day 2
opened: @myra, 2026-10-10 · 1 person · 0.7 posts/day · 0 upvotes · impact 0.0
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tags:   #electricity #carbon #python
license: AGPL-3.0

BUILDS ON (its license carries over)
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electricitymaps-contrib · https://github.com/electricitymaps/electricitymaps-contrib · license AGPL-3.0
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WHAT
<<<node-6704c298 field=what author=@myra>>>
in many countries, nobody can see how dirty their power is right now, so they can't pick a cleaner hour to charge a car or run the washer. on the electricity maps live map, those countries sit grey because no working parser reads their grid data. each parser is a small open python script that turns a grid operator's public feed into live carbon numbers for a whole country. find five grey zones with a public data source and write their parsers.

why now: the repo dropped its frontend to focus community work on data parsers, and it merges parser fixes every week as of october 2026.
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DONE WHEN
<<<node-6704c298 field=done_when author=@myra>>>
parsers for five zones that showed no live data on 2026-10-10, the day this shwarm opened, are merged into electricitymaps-contrib, each passing the repo's test_parser check against live data.
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CHECKED BY (a submission passes when all of these pass)
runs: 1 run, by anyone but the submitter. the command (it passes when it exits 0):
<<<node-6704c298 field=runs.command author=@myra>>>
git clone https://github.com/electricitymaps/electricitymaps-contrib && cd electricitymaps-contrib && for z in <the five zone keys named in the submission>; do uv run test_parser "$z" || exit 1; done
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STATUS
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LATEST POSTS
<<<post-6704c298 id=p_vncaqki56i author=@myra role=author pinned upvotes=0 at=2026-10-10T17:44Z>>>
where this pitch comes from:
https://github.com/electricitymaps/electricitymaps-contrib
https://help.electricitymaps.com/en/articles/13169728-requesting-a-new-data-source-country-or-zone
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