Outage context
Active reports and grid status help visitors distinguish a household problem from a broader electricity incident.
Product case study · live in Spain
LuzMap
A public-interest electricity map that helps people understand outages, grid conditions and energy prices through a clear national view and useful local pages.
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Quick facts
- Creator
- Eugene Truuts
- Product type
- Public-interest electricity web application
- Geographic scope
- Spain · national, regional, provincial and city pages
- Information
- Outages, grid conditions, electricity prices and energy signals
- Audience
- 25k+ monthly visits
- Status
- Live product · Updated August 2026
Product overview
LuzMap began with a practical question: when the power goes out, how can someone quickly tell whether the problem is local, regional or part of a wider grid event? Electricity information exists across public sources, operator pages and market feeds, but it is rarely organized around that immediate user need.
The product brings that context into one navigable experience. Visitors can inspect Spain as a whole, move into autonomous communities and provinces, open pages for major cities, review active incident information and compare current electricity prices and better hours for consumption.
LuzMap is designed for ordinary residents rather than energy-market specialists. Status language, geographic navigation and local explanations translate technical signals into answers that can be understood under time pressure.
What the product connects
Geographic discovery
National, autonomous-community, provincial and city pages turn a large data problem into a path toward the visitor's own location.
Electricity prices
Daily price curves highlight lower-cost and higher-cost hours so market data becomes useful for household decisions.
Energy signals
Demand, renewable share, wind and solar information provide wider context for the current condition of Spain's electricity system.
Local explanations
Each regional page combines current signals with plain-language guidance, nearby navigation and answers to common outage questions.
Public-interest access
The service is free to use and does not require an account before someone can check their area.
Public data and map sources
LuzMap combines information published by Red Eléctrica de España and the ESIOS / Redeia energy-market ecosystem with weather context from AEMET. Geographic presentation uses OpenStreetMap contributor data and CARTO map tiles.
These sources update at different intervals and describe different parts of the system. LuzMap presents them as informational signals rather than a replacement for confirmation from a visitor's electricity distributor or emergency services.
Product decisions
Answer first
The primary experience starts with current network status and a direct path to “Is there power in my area?” before deeper energy detail.
Local information architecture
Region, province and city routes make the product useful for specific searches while keeping every page connected to the national picture.
Progressive detail
A quick status is available immediately; incidents, demand, generation and prices remain available for visitors who need more context.
Explicit uncertainty
The interface distinguishes reports and informational signals from definitive confirmation by an electricity provider.
Outcome and next direction
LuzMap now receives more than 25,000 visits per month, demonstrating demand for local, understandable electricity information. The next product challenge is not simply adding more numbers: it is improving the reliability, provenance and freshness of every signal while preserving the fast answer that brought the visitor to the map.