# National Energy System Operator

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/national-energy-system-operator/  
**Website:** https://www.neso.energy/  
**APIs profiled:** 4

The National Energy System Operator (NESO) is the independent operator responsible for planning and operating Great Britain's electricity and gas networks. NESO publishes operational, market, and forecasting datasets through its Data Portal, which exposes a CKAN v3 API for programmatic access to energy system data including wind forecasts, demand predictions, balancing services, and transmission constraints.

## Kin Score — 24.2 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-08-21 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 24.2).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 74.1 |
| Contract Quality | 49.7 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 7.9 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 19.0 |
| Commercial Clarity | 0.0 |
| Access Clarity | 0.0 |

Regulatory layer — **Energy & Utilities**: 16.2 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 24.5 (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 | no |
| 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

Freemium — onboarding: unknown, pricing: freemium, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (4)

- **National Energy System Operator Datastore API** — Query tabular data with filters or PostgreSQL-style SQL.
- **National Energy System Operator Discovery API** — Discovery endpoints for organizations, datasets, and tags.
- **National Energy System Operator Metadata API** — Retrieve metadata for datasets and resources.
- **National Energy System Operator Search API** — Search endpoints for datasets and resources.

## Agentic access (1)

- **National Energy System Operator Agentic Access** — 9 operations

## Security (2)

- **National Energy System Operator Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC
- **National Energy System Operator Vulnerability Disclosure** — Hackerone · security.txt · contact published

## Plans (1)

- **National Energy System Operator Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Energy, Electricity, Grid, Open Data, United Kingdom

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/national-energy-system-operator/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.