Cold snap ahead: gas demand by city
The coldest cities in the next three days, for gas dispatch.
What it does
Every afternoon in winter: the next three days’ lowest temperatures in each city you supply, the coldest first, with a demand note by xMap AI for gas dispatch.
In one sentence: Every day at 14:00, take your table, get the 3-day weather forecast, sort them by temp_min and keep the top 10, write a report with xMap AI, then send message to a channel in Slack and email the list to you.
Why it is useful
Gas demand jumps in the cold. Dispatch plans before it hits.
Who it is for
Energy, EV & utilities. Fuel retailers, EV charging networks, solar companies and utilities planning sites and serving customers. Every use case for energy & ev
Best use cases
- A gas utility
- A heating oil distributor
- An energy trader
What each run gives you
- A Slack post
The time it saves
Every day at 14:00. Doing the same work by hand takes about 20 minutes each time; it runs about 30 times a month, so it saves about 10 hours a month (an estimate). It is medium: 7 blocks.
The flow, block by block
- Every morningTrigger · ScheduleStarts the flow on a timetable.
- Cities we supplyYour data · My dataBrings in a table you uploaded or a list you saved on the My data page: your stores, customers, target accounts or sites.
- Forecast for 3 daysxMap data · Weather forecastThe weather forecast (Open-Meteo, from national weather services) for up to 16 days: temperature, rain, wind and UV.
- Coldest firstLogic · Sort and limitPuts the items in order, and can keep only the first ones: the 10 best rated, the 20 nearest, the highest fit scores.
- Write the demand notexMap AI · xMap LLMTell the AI what to do in plain words.
- Post to dispatchApp · SlackChannel-based messaging platform
- Email me the resultsAction · EmailSends one email per run with all the items, or one email per item.
Every block can be changed after you use the template: the city, the type of place, the score, where the results go.
Use it now
Answer a few questions, enter your work email, and it runs in your own account, kept running until you pause it. Use this template.
How to set it up
- Build your first flow in ten minutes: From a blank page to a flow that emails you a ranked list every morning.
- Enrich a list once: A CSV of addresses or companies back with phone, website, rating and an AI score.
- Weather forecast: Up to 16 days for each place or city.
- Your own tables and lists (My data): Upload a CSV, save lists of results, and use them in flows.
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