National Energy System Operator (NESO)

NESO Data Portal API

The public CKAN 2.8.7 API behind the NESO Data Portal, serving 128 open datasets covering GB electricity demand, generation, balancing, ancillary services, constraints, interconnectors, connection registers, network charges, the Demand Flexibility Service, and Future Energy Scenarios. Anonymous and unauthenticated - package_list, package_search, package_show, resource_search, resource_show, datastore_search and datastore_search_sql (PostgreSQL) all answer 200 with no key. All 128 datasets carry the NESO Open Data Licence. NESO asks for a maximum of one request per second against the CKAN API and two requests per minute against the datastore.

Documentation GitHub

Documentation

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Documentation

https://www.neso.energy/data-portal

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APIReference

https://www.neso.energy/data-portal/api-guidance

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RateLimits

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/neso/refs/heads/main/rate-limits/neso-rate-limits.yml

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Authentication

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/neso/refs/heads/main/authentication/neso-authentication.yml

Other Resources

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Licensing

https://www.neso.energy/data-portal/neso-open-licence

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Conventions

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/neso/refs/heads/main/conventions/neso-conventions.yml

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ErrorCatalog

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/neso/refs/heads/main/errors/neso-error-codes.yml

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DataModel

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/neso/refs/heads/main/data-model/neso-data-model.yml

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APIsJSON

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/neso/refs/heads/main/apis.yml

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aid: neso:neso-data-portal-api
name: NESO Data Portal API
description: The public CKAN 2.8.7 API behind the NESO Data Portal, serving 128 open datasets covering
  GB electricity demand, generation, balancing, ancillary services, constraints, interconnectors, connection
  registers, network charges, the Demand Flexibility Service, and Future Energy Scenarios. Anonymous and
  unauthenticated - package_list, package_search, package_show, resource_search, resource_show, datastore_search
  and datastore_search_sql (PostgreSQL) all answer 200 with no key. All 128 datasets carry the NESO Open
  Data Licence. NESO asks for a maximum of one request per second against the CKAN API and two requests
  per minute against the datastore.
humanURL: https://www.neso.energy/data-portal/api-guidance
baseURL: https://api.neso.energy/api/3/action
tags:
- Open Data
- Energy Markets
- Electricity
- Demand
- CKAN
properties:
- type: Documentation
  url: https://www.neso.energy/data-portal
- type: APIReference
  url: https://www.neso.energy/data-portal/api-guidance
- type: Licensing
  url: https://www.neso.energy/data-portal/neso-open-licence
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/neso-rate-limits.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/neso-authentication.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/neso-conventions.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/neso-error-codes.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/neso-data-model.yml