The NESO App

What???? 10971 MW is equivalent to 219,400 5W lightbulbs???? More like 2,194,200,000 5W lightbulbs!!!!

… added another star as the colour scheme is slightly improved but it’s still not great.

I used to love this app. Still do; in principle. But the latest colour change makes it very hard, at a glance, to see which energy source is which. Please change it back. Or at least make the colours more discernible. Thank you.

Impossible to read! Since the recent update it’s even more difficult or impossible to read the small text - the colours are also irrelevant. Please make it better than before, not worse!

I get that you are using corporate colours, but it is really hard to differentiate the gas from wind etc. please change the colours to something more logical and differentiated.

I use this App to judge the best time to use electricity and also charge my Hybrid car for minimum environmental impact. Since the latest App update they have made it incredibly difficult to discern which source of Electricity is from what source as the colours chosen are completely illogical. Light purple for Gas, Dark purple for Wind!? So is wind more polluting that Gas? That’s what the colours say to me! Imports are Blue, water isn’t!? Solar is dark blue? Why not yellow or orange? Make the colours represent either reality or their Eco impact. Black for Biomass, Brown for Gas, blue for water, green for wind, yellow for solar, Orange or Purple for imports etc. I shouldn’t have to decode the App before I use it to decide if it is a good time to use green electricity. Help us help you! What I would really like to see is the daily/weekly/monthly running totals for each kind of electricity production technique with a running total for the CO2 produced to generate the electricity. I want to be able to see and compare how much each individual type (wind/solar/water/nuclear/gas etc) has produced and what CO2 it has cost us. Ideally by country area but defo in total per country. Live data on this would be excellent as well. A display of total electricity demand Vs system provided would be an interesting readout.

As part of the recent rebrand they have changed the colours on the energy mix pie chart which makes it really hard to distinguish between the colours. Please go back to the old colours. I can barely see the difference between Nuclear and gas.

I can imagine the NESO executives’ hearts sinking when they saw the no doubt expensive redesign of this app, which takes a simple, pleasing thing and makes it worse for no good reason. And I can imagine them thinking: ‘We’re too busy to object to this, it doesn’t matter.’ Why these colours? Why is the only green colour biomass, the most dubious of all ‘renewable’ sources? Did Drax design this? Why is wind almost the colour of coal, and almost impossible on a phone to distinguish from nuclear, which is also a gloomy colour? Why are wind and gas two shades of purple? I don’t get it. Nutty.

Colour palette really hard to distinguish and does not line up with “green” energy sources vs fossil fuels. Indicator for overall mix A-E too small and colours again non-intuitive. It was much better before !

I understand new branding needs to apply but no to the colour code for energy mix or carbon scale! Different shades of purple make no sense and currently the only green energy source is biomass so misleading. Also the app support link doesn’t work currently.