Elexon
Elexon is the UK's Balancing and Settlement Code (BSC) Company, responsible for administering the electricity balancing and settlement arrangements in Great Britain. As the operator of the Balancing Mechanism Reporting Service (BMRS), Elexon publishes a publicly accessible REST API — the Insights Solution API — that provides free, no-key access to real-time and historical data from the UK electricity market. The API covers balancing mechanism dynamic and physical data per Balancing Mechanism Unit (BMU), bid-offer acceptances, balancing services adjustments, physical notifications, generation availability forecasts, settlement reports, meter readings, and UK market transparency data mandated under European legislation. All data is returned in JSON, XML, or CSV format. A companion near-real-time push service (IRIS — Insights Real-time Information Service) streams the same datasets over WebSocket/STOMP for latency-sensitive consumers. The API is freely accessible to industry participants and the public with no registration or API key required, and data may be reused with attribution ("Contains BMRS data © Elexon Limited copyright and database right").
Elexon publishes 32 APIs on the APIs.io network, including Balancing Mechanism Dynamic API, Balancing Mechanism Physical API, Balancing Services Adjustment - Disaggregated API, and 29 more. Tagged areas include Electricity, Energy, UK Energy Market, Balancing Mechanism, and Settlement.
The Elexon catalog on APIs.io includes 2 JSON-LD contexts and 1 Spectral governance ruleset.
Elexon’s developer surface includes developer portal, documentation, GitHub presence, engineering blog, support, and 11 more developer resources.
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APIs 32
Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.
Elexon Balancing Mechanism Dynamic API
Dynamic data.
Elexon Balancing Mechanism Physical API
Physical data consists of PN, QPN, MILS, & MELS.
Elexon Balancing Services Adjustment - Disaggregated API
Adjustment actions (DISBSAD) for a given settlement period, or summarised by settlement period over a time range.
Elexon Balancing Services Adjustment - Net API
Net balancing services adjustment data (NETBSAD), provided as a time series or filtered to events.
Elexon Bid-Offer Acceptances API
Bid-offer acceptance data (BOALF).
Elexon Bid-Offer API
Bid-offer data.
Elexon BMRS Datasets API
Raw datasets as received from the National Grid, with associated metadata. The output in JSON format matches IRIS, and can be used interchangeably with IRIS output.
Elexon Credit Default Notice API
Credit Default Notice data.
Elexon Data Status API
The number of datapoints ingested for a dataset in a given period of time, grouped by settlement period.
Elexon Demand API
GB electricity demand, including historic.
Elexon Demand Forecast API
Current or historic demand forecasts.
Elexon Generation API
GB electricity generation output, including historic.
Elexon Generation Forecast API
Current or historic generation forecasts.
Elexon Health Check API
Provides an endpoint to check the health of the Insights API service.
Elexon Indicated Forecast API
Day-and-day-ahead indicated forecast, categorized as Indicated Generation (INDGEN), Indicated Demand (INDDEM), Imbalance (IMBALNGC) and Margin (MELNGC).
Elexon Indicative Imbalance Settlement API
Data related to the settlement process.
Elexon Legacy API
The Legacy API from Elexon — 2 operation(s) for legacy.
Elexon Load Shape API
Load shape period data and load shape totals data as calculated by the Load Shaping Service
Elexon Loss of Load Probability and De-rated Margin API
Loss of load probability and de-rated margin forecast data.
Elexon Margin Forecast API
Generating Plant Operating Margin forecast data, including historical views of data by publish time or forecast date.
Elexon Market Index API
Market Index prices filtered by time.
Elexon Non-BM STOR API
Short Term Operating Reserves (STOR) data, provided as a time series or filtered to events.
Elexon Non-BM Volumes API
Balancing services volume data, filtered by BM Unit and time range.
Elexon Reference API
Reference data which can be used to filter other API requests.
Elexon REMIT API
REMIT messages, including previous revisions.
Elexon Rolling System Demand API
The Rolling System Demand API from Elexon — 1 operation(s) for rolling system demand.
Elexon SAA Datasets API
Datasets received from the Settlement Administration Agent (SAA)
Elexon SO-SO Prices API
SO-SO Prices (SOSO) data, filtered by start time.
Elexon Surplus Forecast API
Generating Plant Operating Surplus forecast data, including historical views of data by publish time or forecast date.
Elexon System API
Transmission System data.
Elexon System forecast API
Transmission System forecasts
Elexon Temperature API
Daily average & reference temperatures.
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Pricing Plans 1
Published pricing tiers and plan structures.
Elexon Plans Pricing
PLANSRate Limits 1
Documented rate limits and quota policies.
Elexon Rate Limits
RATE LIMITSFinOps 1
Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.
Elexon Finops
FINOPSSemantic Vocabularies 2
JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.
Api Context
JSON-LDcontext Context
JSON-LDSpectral Rules 1
Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.
Elexon API Rules
SPECTRALJSON Schema 295
Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.
Insights.Api.Models.Responses.Balancing.DatasetRows.BidOfferAcceptanceLevelDatasetResponse
JSON SCHEMAInsights.Api.Models.Responses.Balancing.DatasetRows.DisaggregatedBalancingServicesAdjustmentData
JSON SCHEMAInsights.Api.Models.Responses.Balancing.DisaggregatedBalancingServicesAdjustmentDetailsResponse
JSON SCHEMAInsights.Api.Models.Responses.Balancing.DisaggregatedBalancingServicesAdjustmentSummaryResponse
JSON SCHEMAInsights.Api.Models.Responses.DemandForecast.DatasetRows.DemandForecastTransmissionDayAhead
JSON SCHEMAInsights.Api.Models.Responses.DemandForecast.DatasetRows.DemandForecastTransmissionWeekly
JSON SCHEMAInsights.Api.Models.Responses.ResponseWithMetadata-1_Insights.Api.Models.Responses.Misc.SoSoPrices
JSON SCHEMAInsights.Api.Models.Responses.Transparency.DatasetRows.ActualAggregatedGenerationPerTypeDatasetRow
JSON SCHEMAInsights.Api.Models.Responses.Transparency.DatasetRows.ActualGenerationWindSolarDatasetRow
JSON SCHEMAInsights.Api.Models.Responses.Transparency.DatasetRows.ActualTotalLoadPerBiddingZoneDatasetRow
JSON SCHEMAInsights.Api.Models.Responses.Transparency.DatasetRows.CostsOfCongestionManagementDatasetRow
JSON SCHEMAInsights.Api.Models.Responses.Transparency.DatasetRows.DayAheadAggregatedGenerationDatasetRow
JSON SCHEMAInsights.Api.Models.Responses.Transparency.DatasetRows.DayAheadGenerationForWindAndSolarDatasetRow
JSON SCHEMAInsights.Api.Models.Responses.Transparency.DatasetRows.DayAheadTotalLoadPerBiddingZoneDatasetRow
JSON SCHEMAInsights.Api.Models.Responses.Transparency.DatasetRows.MonthAheadTotalLoadPerBiddingZoneDatasetRow
JSON SCHEMAInsights.Api.Models.Responses.Transparency.DatasetRows.WeekAheadTotalLoadPerBiddingZoneDatasetRow
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Examples 20
Example request and response payloads for these APIs.
Get_Balancing_Bid Offer_200
EXAMPLEGet_Balancing_Dynamic_200
EXAMPLEGet_Balancing_Physical_200
EXAMPLEGet_Datasets_Nonbm_200
EXAMPLEGet_Datasets_Pn_200
EXAMPLEGet_Datasets_Pn_Stream_200
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Security Posture 1
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.
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Resources
Get Started 1
Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call
Documentation 2
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Agent Surfaces 1
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Build 4
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 1
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Operate 3
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 3
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 1
The organization behind the API