# Elexon **Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/elexon/ **Website:** https://developer.data.elexon.co.uk/ **APIs profiled:** 32 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"). ## Kin Score — 42.2 / 100 (developing) Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 42.2). | Facet | Score | |---|---| | Discoverability | 74.1 | | Contract Quality | 54.1 | | Governance | 9.8 | | Contract Governance | 9.8 | | Operational Transparency | 52.6 | | Developer Ergonomics | 26.2 | | Commercial Clarity | 39.5 | | Access Clarity | 39.5 | Regulatory layer — **Energy & Utilities**: 20.3 (matched via tags). ## Agent readiness — 31.6 (agent-aware) | Dimension | Value | |---|---| | Spec Presence | yes | | Agentic Access | derived | | Reversibility Documented | na | | MCP Server | no | | Auth Clarity | no | | Idempotency | na | | Error Semantics | no | | OpenAPI Examples | verified | | Rate Limit Signal | documented | | Event Surface Described | no | | Agent Skills | no | | Well Known Catalog | no | | Consent Identity | no | | Agent Card | no | | Dry Run Mode | na | ## Access Free · Open access — onboarding: open, pricing: free, trial: no (confidence: medium). ## APIs (32) - **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. ## Agentic access (1) - **Elexon Agentic Access** — 312 operations ## Security (1) - **Elexon Domain Security** — TLSv1.2 · HSTS · DMARC ## Plans (1) - **Elexon Plans Pricing** ## Tags Electricity, Energy, UK Energy Market, Balancing Mechanism, Settlement, Meter Readings, Market Transparency, BMRS, Electricity Grid, Power Generation, United Kingdom --- Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/elexon/). 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