The National Energy System Operator (NESO) is Great Britain's publicly owned, operationally independent electricity system operator and whole-energy system planner, created on 1 October 2024 when the UK government purchased National Grid Electricity System Operator Limited and folded in gas system planning from National Gas Transmission. NESO balances the GB electricity system in real time, runs the connections queue, publishes Future Energy Scenarios, and sits at the centre of the value chain between generators, interconnectors, transmission and distribution networks, and suppliers. Its API posture is the sector's classic split, and NESO lands firmly on the open side of that split. Market and system data is genuinely open and anonymous - the NESO Data Portal exposes 128 datasets over a public CKAN API at api.neso.energy with no key, no account and no application, all under the permissive NESO Open Data Licence, and the Carbon Intensity API for Great Britain that NESO develops is one of the most openly consumed public energy APIs in the world. There is no consumer data surface at all, and none is expected, because NESO holds no retail customer relationships, Britain has no consumer energy data-portability mandate comparable to the Australian Consumer Data Right, and smart-meter consumption data travels through the licensed Smart DCC monopoly rather than through the system operator. NESO's open-data obligation comes from Ofgem's Data Best Practice Guidance embedded in its RIIO-2 licence, and unlike most of the sector that obligation is visibly implemented rather than merely claimed.
National Energy System Operator (NESO) publishes 2 APIs on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Energy, United Kingdom, Electricity, Energy Markets, and Grid.
National Energy System Operator (NESO)’s developer surface includes authentication, documentation, developer portal, API reference, support, product news, and 23 more developer resources.
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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, intercon...
The official Carbon Intensity API for Great Britain, developed by NESO, giving national and regional carbon intensity of GB electricity - actual, forecast up to 96+ hours ahead,...
NESO operates NO first-party MCP server. This is a CANDIDATE tool design for one, derived from the two live anonymous APIs. Both surfaces are unusually well suited to MCP: no au...
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name: National Energy System Operator (NESO)
kind: company
description: The National Energy System Operator (NESO) is Great Britain's publicly owned, operationally independent electricity
system operator and whole-energy system planner, created on 1 October 2024 when the UK government purchased National Grid
Electricity System Operator Limited and folded in gas system planning from National Gas Transmission. NESO balances the
GB electricity system in real time, runs the connections queue, publishes Future Energy Scenarios, and sits at the centre
of the value chain between generators, interconnectors, transmission and distribution networks, and suppliers. Its API posture
is the sector's classic split, and NESO lands firmly on the open side of that split. Market and system data is genuinely
open and anonymous - the NESO Data Portal exposes 128 datasets over a public CKAN API at api.neso.energy with no key, no
account and no application, all under the permissive NESO Open Data Licence, and the Carbon Intensity API for Great Britain
that NESO develops is one of the most openly consumed public energy APIs in the world. There is no consumer data surface
at all, and none is expected, because NESO holds no retail customer relationships, Britain has no consumer energy data-portability
mandate comparable to the Australian Consumer Data Right, and smart-meter consumption data travels through the licensed
Smart DCC monopoly rather than through the system operator. NESO's open-data obligation comes from Ofgem's Data Best Practice
Guidance embedded in its RIIO-2 licence, and unlike most of the sector that obligation is visibly implemented rather than
merely claimed.
accessModel:
pricing: free
onboarding: open
trial: false
try_now: true
public: true
label: Free - Open, no registration
confidence: high
source:
- probe
generated: '2026-07-27'
method: observed
image: https://www.neso.energy/themes/custom/neso_theme/logo.svg
tags:
- Energy
- United Kingdom
- Electricity
- Energy Markets
- Grid
- Open Data
- Carbon
- Renewables
- Gas
- Demand Response
created: '2026-07-27'
modified: '2026-07-27'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- 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
- aid: neso:neso-carbon-intensity-api
name: Carbon Intensity API
description: The official Carbon Intensity API for Great Britain, developed by NESO, giving national and regional carbon
intensity of GB electricity - actual, forecast up to 96+ hours ahead, half-hourly generation mix, per-fuel emission factors,
and regional breakdowns by DNO region, region id, or postcode. Fully anonymous REST/JSON over HTTPS with no API key and
no registration; documented as a Slate reference site rather than as a downloadable OpenAPI contract.
humanURL: https://carbon-intensity.github.io/api-definitions/
baseURL: https://api.carbonintensity.org.uk
tags:
- Carbon
- Electricity
- Renewables
- Grid
- Open Data
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url: https://carbon-intensity.github.io/api-definitions/
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- type: SourceCode
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- type: TermsOfService
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- 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
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- type: IssueTracker
url: https://github.com/carbon-intensity/api-definitions/issues
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
url: security/neso-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: Security
url: https://www.neso.energy/responsible-disclosure
- type: SecurityTxt
url: well-known/neso-security.txt
- type: DomainSecurity
url: security/neso-domain-security.yml
- type: WellKnown
url: well-known/neso-well-known.yml
- type: Authentication
url: authentication/neso-authentication.yml
- type: Conventions
url: conventions/neso-conventions.yml
- type: RateLimits
url: rate-limits/neso-rate-limits.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
url: errors/neso-error-codes.yml
- type: Lifecycle
url: lifecycle/neso-lifecycle.yml
- type: Conformance
url: conformance/neso-conformance.yml
- type: DataModel
url: data-model/neso-data-model.yml
- type: Packages
url: packages/neso-packages.yml
- type: MCPServer
url: mcp/neso-mcp.yml
- type: AgentSkill
url: skills/_index.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
url: llms/neso-llms.txt
- type: Website
url: https://www.neso.energy/
- type: Documentation
url: https://www.neso.energy/data-portal/api-guidance
- type: Portal
url: https://www.neso.energy/data-portal
- type: APIReference
url: https://carbon-intensity.github.io/api-definitions/
- type: Licensing
url: https://www.neso.energy/data-portal/neso-open-licence
- type: TermsOfService
url: https://www.neso.energy/terms-and-conditions
- type: PrivacyPolicy
url: https://www.neso.energy/privacy-policy
- type: Support
url: https://www.neso.energy/contact-us
- type: GitHubOrganization
url: https://github.com/carbon-intensity
- type: LinkedIn
url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/neso-energy
- type: BlogRSS
url: https://www.neso.energy/rss.xml
- type: News
url: https://www.neso.energy/news
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