Elexon · FinOps Profile

Elexon Finops

FOCUS-aligned FinOps definition for the Elexon Insights Solution API. Elexon provides the BMRS API as a free public service under its statutory mandate as the BSC Company for Great Britain's electricity market. There are no usage fees, no subscription charges, and no metered billing. The only financial consideration for consumers is the cost of infrastructure used to consume the API (compute, egress, storage for cached data). From a FinOps perspective this is a zero-cost external dependency, and chargeback models should allocate only internal compute and infrastructure costs to teams consuming the API.

Elexon Finops is the FinOps profile for Elexon on the APIs.io network, aligned with the FinOps Foundation Framework.

It defines 2 billable meters, pricing category free (statutory public service).

Tagged areas include FinOps, Cost Management, FOCUS, Electricity, and UK Energy Market.

Category: Analytics and Data Pricing: Free (Statutory Public Service) FOCUS v1.3
FinOpsCost ManagementFOCUSElectricityUK Energy MarketBMRSZero Cost

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Data Spec

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Meters

api.requests
Unit: request
API requests to Insights Solution endpoints. No charge; recorded here only for internal capacity planning and vendor dependency tracking purposes.
iris.connections
Unit: connection
Concurrent IRIS real-time push connections. No charge; logged for internal infrastructure planning.

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