Last changed 22 October 2026

Privacy

kilovolt is a non-profit atlas of grid capacity in Europe. You can use every page without an account. The site sets no cookies for visitors, shows no advertising, runs no tracking script and does not follow you to other sites. We do count visits, on the server, as described below.

How we count visits

To see which pages people use and how they find the site, our server counts page views from the page request itself. Nothing is stored on your device or read from it.

• For each page view we keep the page address, the time, and the site you came from (for example google.com).
• From your IP address, Cloudflare tells us your country, region and city; from your browser’s User-Agent we take the browser, operating system and whether it is a phone, tablet or computer. We do not store your IP address.
• To count each visitor once a day, we keep a short hash of your IP address and User-Agent mixed with a random value that changes every day. The random value is deleted the next day; after that, the hash cannot be traced back to you or linked to your visits on other days.
• Search engine and other crawlers are counted separately, by name, with the page they asked for.

Only the operator of kilovolt sees these numbers. Visits are kept for 13 months and crawler requests for 6 months. We count them because we have a legitimate interest in knowing whether the site is useful (GDPR article 6(1)(f)); nothing is stored on or read from your device, which is why there is no cookie banner.

The one cookie the site can set is the sign-in cookie of its operator’s statistics page. It is only set after the operator’s password has been entered there, and it keeps the operator’s own page views out of the count.

Who handles it

• The site runs on Cloudflare, which stores the counts in its D1 database.
• Your browser loads the background map from OpenFreeMap and the fonts from Google Fonts. Like any website you load something from, they see your IP address; kilovolt does not send them anything about you.
• The live grid frequency is fetched by our server from Energy-Charts (Fraunhofer ISE); no visitor data is involved.

Contact

Questions about this page, or grid operators who would like their data shown differently or not at all: info@powercut.io, the address of kilovolt’s sister site.