Engineering portfolio case study
UK Renewable Intelligence Platform
UK Renewable Infrastructure Intelligence is an open, public-data decision-support platform developed by HJ Nakamura, a Mechanical Engineering student at Imperial College London. It combines data engineering, geospatial analysis, forecast governance and product design in one deployable system.
Product thesis
Platform Purpose
The official REPD is the source of truth for public planning records. This platform adds the layer needed for screening: search, permanent evidence pages, comparable delivery signals, maps, portfolios and external-risk scenarios.
Engineering scope
Engineering Capabilities
Data Engineering
Normalises irregular REPD releases into a project × snapshot panel, documents fallback entity keys, preserves source fields and validates duplicates, ranges and freshness.
Forecast Governance
Uses right-censored survival targets, project-purged temporal holdouts, probability calibration challengers, independent horizon gates and explicit abstention when evidence is insufficient.
Mechanical Engineering Context
Includes an offshore wind quick calculator for capacity factor, turbine count, CAPEX, revenue and displaced carbon, with visible techno-economic assumptions.
Public Product Delivery
Runs as a static, accessible site with no account, no sleeping server, lazy project data, shareable explorer state, permanent project pages and automated integrity checks.