gridfrequency

GridFrequency

Python wrapper for obtaining the current frequency of the Swedish national power grid

Sources

https://www.svk.se/drift-av-stamnatet/kontrollrummet/ (Swedish National Grid - Inspiration to this project) http://driftsdata.statnett.no/restapi/ (Norwegian National Grid - data provider)

Installation

This program only has one dependency; the requests module. The dependency can be be installed with pip using

pip install -r requirements.txt

Usage

Below are a few snippets of example usage. For more thorough usage, please see the source code.

Continous measurement

pollGridFrequency()

Polls every 0.5s [default], only printing result [default]. Calls callback only if value changed [default]

 pollGridFrequency(my_callback, 0.1)

Polls with custom callback function my_callback taking ONE argument (frequency). I.e. my_callback(freq) is called. Custom refresh rate.

 pollGridFrequency(None, 2, False)

No callback (prints values only), polling every 2s and returning values regardless of whether they have changed.

Obtain a single frequency measurement

 print("This is freq: " + str(getCurrentFrequency()[1]))

Single-capture frequency.

Callback

The data obtained in the continous polling is passed to a provided callback. The format of the callback is as follows

def my_callback(frequency):
  desired_freq = 50
  print("We differ by {} Hertz".format((desired_freq - frequency))