Northern Powergrid

Northern Powergrid is the electricity distribution network operator (DNO) for the North East of England, Yorkshire and northern Lincolnshire, owning and running the poles, wires, substations and low-voltage network that deliver power to 4 million homes and businesses across roughly 10,000 square miles. It is a Berkshire Hathaway Energy company and it does not sell electricity — it moves it, so it holds no retail customer accounts and no billing relationship. Its API posture reflects that split exactly: the market and network side is genuinely open, with a live Opendatasoft-hosted open data portal publishing 102 datasets under the Northern Powergrid Open Data Licence v1.0 and a fully documented Explore REST API that answers anonymously at 5,000 requests a day, including live power cut incidents, operational metering, embedded capacity registers, network capacity headroom and aggregated smart meter consumption; the consumer side is empty, because Britain has no energy consumer data right equivalent to the Australian Consumer Data Right and a DNO would not be the obligated party if it did. The open data programme exists because Ofgem's Data Best Practice Guidance is a licence condition under the RIIO-ED2 price control, and unlike many mandates in this sector it is visibly implemented rather than merely claimed. Roughly 44 of the 102 datasets are metadata-visible but records-gated to anonymous callers and require a free self-serve portal registration to read.

Northern Powergrid publishes 2 APIs on the APIs.io network: Catalog API and Dataset API. Tagged areas include Energy, United Kingdom, Utilities, Electricity, and Grid.

Northern Powergrid’s developer surface includes authentication, changelog, code examples, sandbox, API reference, getting-started guide, support, and 40 more developer resources.

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60.0/100 strong ▬ flat Agent 33/100 agent ready saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-09-06 · rubric v0.19.0

AccessFreeSelf serve⚡ Free to try

2 APIs

Energy United Kingdom Utilities Electricity Grid Open Data Distribution Network Operator Smart MeteringNetwork CapacityFlexibility DER Renewables

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Composite quality — 60.0/100 · strong

Contract Quality 12.7 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 12.0 / 17

Access Clarity 5.8 / 17

Operational Transparency 7.0 / 11

Contract Governance 0.5 / 10

Discoverability 5.8 / 9

Regulatory Posture 11.4 / 15

Agent readiness — 33/100 · agent ready

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 6 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 9 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8

Request/Response Examples 7 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 5 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 4 / 4

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

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Northern Powergrid Scopes

1 scope · authorizationCode

1 scopes

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Northern Powergrid Agentic Access

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AGENTIC

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Get Started 6

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Sandbox

Sandbox

GettingStarted

GettingStarted

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Login

Portal

Portal

APIConsole

APIConsole

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

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APIReference

Documentation

Documentation

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MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

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Scroll for all 7

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Examples

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Security

Security

Operate 5

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

RateLimits

Deprecation

ChangeLog

Support

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Commercial 3

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TermsOfService

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

License

License

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

LinkedIn

Other 6

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Overlay

Overlay

Explore

Map

Dashboards

ParentCompany

Source (apis.yml)

aid: northern-powergrid
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/northern-powergrid/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
name: Northern Powergrid
kind: company
description: 'Northern Powergrid is the electricity distribution network operator (DNO) for the North East of England, Yorkshire
  and northern Lincolnshire, owning and running the poles, wires, substations and low-voltage network that deliver power to
  4 million homes and businesses across roughly 10,000 square miles. It is a Berkshire Hathaway Energy company and it does
  not sell electricity — it moves it, so it holds no retail customer accounts and no billing relationship. Its API posture
  reflects that split exactly: the market and network side is genuinely open, with a live Opendatasoft-hosted open data portal
  publishing 102 datasets under the Northern Powergrid Open Data Licence v1.0 and a fully documented Explore REST API that
  answers anonymously at 5,000 requests a day, including live power cut incidents, operational metering, embedded capacity
  registers, network capacity headroom and aggregated smart meter consumption; the consumer side is empty, because Britain
  has no energy consumer data right equivalent to the Australian Consumer Data Right and a DNO would not be the obligated
  party if it did. The open data programme exists because Ofgem''s Data Best Practice Guidance is a licence condition under
  the RIIO-ED2 price control, and unlike many mandates in this sector it is visibly implemented rather than merely claimed.
  Roughly 44 of the 102 datasets are metadata-visible but records-gated to anonymous callers and require a free self-serve
  portal registration to read.'
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: false
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: free
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: true
  public: true
  label: Free · Anonymous read, free registration for full data
  confidence: high
  source:
  - probe
  - portal
  generated: '2026-07-27'
  method: derived
image: https://s3-eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/aws-ec2-eu-central-1-opendatasoft-staticfileset/northernpowergrid/logo?tstamp=1668505636764573
tags:
- Energy
- United Kingdom
- Utilities
- Electricity
- Grid
- Open Data
- Distribution Network Operator
- Smart Metering
- Network Capacity
- Flexibility
- DER
- Renewables
created: '2026-07-27'
modified: '2026-07-27'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: northern-powergrid:northern-powergrid-open-data-search-api-v1
  name: Northern Powergrid Open Data Search API v1
  description: The original Opendatasoft Search API, still live on the portal and still carrying its own interactive console.
    Confirmed anonymously on 2026-07-27 — GET /api/datasets/1.0/search/?rows=1 returned nhits 102, matching the v2.1 catalog
    count. No OpenAPI description is published by the platform for this generation of the API, so none was saved and none
    was written.
  humanURL: https://northernpowergrid.opendatasoft.com/api/v1/console
  baseURL: https://northernpowergrid.opendatasoft.com/api/datasets/1.0
  tags:
  - Open Data
  - Energy
  - Search
  - Legacy
  properties:
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://northernpowergrid.opendatasoft.com/api/v1/console
  - type: Portal
    url: https://northernpowergrid.opendatasoft.com/
- aid: northern-powergrid:northern-powergrid-catalog-api
  name: Northern Powergrid Catalog API
  description: API to enumerate datasets
  humanURL: https://northernpowergrid.opendatasoft.com/api/explore/v2.1/console
  baseURL: https://northernpowergrid.opendatasoft.com/api/explore/v2.1
  tags:
  - Catalog
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/northern-powergrid-catalog-api-openapi.yml
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://northernpowergrid.opendatasoft.com/api/explore/v2.1/console
  - type: APIConsole
    url: https://northernpowergrid.opendatasoft.com/api-console/explore/v2.1/
  - type: Portal
    url: https://northernpowergrid.opendatasoft.com/
  - type: Explore
    url: https://northernpowergrid.opendatasoft.com/explore/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://northernpowergrid.opendatasoft.com/pages/tutorial_page/
  - type: ExternalDocumentation
    url: https://help.huwise.com/apis/ods-explore-v2/
  - type: License
    url: https://northernpowergrid.opendatasoft.com/p/opendatalicence/
  - type: Catalog
    url: https://northernpowergrid.opendatasoft.com/api/explore/v2.1/catalog/exports/dcat
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://northernpowergrid.opendatasoft.com/api/explore/v2.0/console
- aid: northern-powergrid:northern-powergrid-dataset-api
  name: Northern Powergrid Dataset API
  description: API to work on records
  humanURL: https://northernpowergrid.opendatasoft.com/api/explore/v2.1/console
  baseURL: https://northernpowergrid.opendatasoft.com/api/explore/v2.1
  tags:
  - Dataset
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/northern-powergrid-dataset-api-openapi.yml
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://northernpowergrid.opendatasoft.com/api/explore/v2.1/console
  - type: APIConsole
    url: https://northernpowergrid.opendatasoft.com/api-console/explore/v2.1/
  - type: Portal
    url: https://northernpowergrid.opendatasoft.com/
  - type: Explore
    url: https://northernpowergrid.opendatasoft.com/explore/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://northernpowergrid.opendatasoft.com/pages/tutorial_page/
  - type: ExternalDocumentation
    url: https://help.huwise.com/apis/ods-explore-v2/
  - type: License
    url: https://northernpowergrid.opendatasoft.com/p/opendatalicence/
  - type: Catalog
    url: https://northernpowergrid.opendatasoft.com/api/explore/v2.1/catalog/exports/dcat
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://northernpowergrid.opendatasoft.com/api/explore/v2.0/console
common:
- type: Overlay
  url: overlays/northern-powergrid-open-data-explore-api-v2-1-overlay.yaml
- type: Overlay
  url: overlays/northern-powergrid-open-data-explore-api-v2-0-overlay.yaml
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/northern-powergrid-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/northern-powergrid-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/northern-powergrid-authentication.yml
- type: OAuthScopes
  url: scopes/northern-powergrid-scopes.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/northern-powergrid-conventions.yml
- type: Idempotency
  name: All operations idempotent (read-only, GET-only API)
  url: conventions/northern-powergrid-conventions.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/northern-powergrid-problem-types.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/northern-powergrid-rate-limits.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/northern-powergrid-lifecycle.yml
- type: Deprecation
  name: Versioning and deprecation policy (ODS-Explore-API-Deprecation header)
  url: https://help.huwise.com/apis/ods-explore-v2/#section/Versioning
- type: ChangeLog
  url: changelog/northern-powergrid-changelog.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/northern-powergrid-conformance.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/northern-powergrid-data-model.yml
- type: Examples
  url: examples/northern-powergrid-examples.yml
- type: Sandbox
  name: Interactive API console and public example portal
  url: sandbox/northern-powergrid-sandbox.yml
- type: Packages
  url: packages/northern-powergrid-packages.yml
- type: SDKs
  name: '@opendatasoft/api-client — platform client for the Explore API v2.1'
  url: packages/northern-powergrid-packages.yml
- type: Components
  url: components/northern-powergrid-components.yml
- type: X-MCPServerCandidate
  name: Candidate MCP tool set derived from the OpenAPI (no server published)
  url: mcp/northern-powergrid-mcp.yml
  note: 'Renamed from MCPServer 2026-09-03 (roadmap#247): the manifest self-describes as status: candidate — a tool list derived
    from the published API contracts, not an existing server. The scorer already read the manifest and reported mcp_server
    correctly; the MCPServer type was crediting the artifact-type surfaces with a server that does not exist.'
- type: ToolCrosswalk
  url: mcp/northern-powergrid-tool-crosswalk.yml
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/northern-powergrid-llms.txt
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/northern-powergrid-well-known.yml
- type: SecurityTxt
  url: well-known/northern-powergrid-security.txt
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/northern-powergrid-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: Security
  name: security.txt (RFC 9116) on the open data portal host
  url: https://northernpowergrid.opendatasoft.com/.well-known/security.txt
- type: APIReference
  url: https://help.huwise.com/apis/ods-explore-v2/
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://help.huwise.com/apis/ods-explore-v2/#section/Getting-Started
- type: Support
  url: https://northernpowergrid.opendatasoft.com/pages/contactform/
- type: SignUp
  url: https://northernpowergrid.opendatasoft.com/signup/
- type: Login
  url: https://northernpowergrid.opendatasoft.com/account/login/
- type: Roadmap
  name: Open data portal Data Roadmap
  url: https://northernpowergrid.opendatasoft.com/explore/dataset/data-roadmap/information/
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.northernpowergrid.com/terms-and-conditions
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.northernpowergrid.com/privacy-policy
- type: Website
  url: https://www.northernpowergrid.com/
- type: Portal
  url: https://northernpowergrid.opendatasoft.com/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://northernpowergrid.opendatasoft.com/pages/tutorial_page/
- type: APIConsole
  url: https://northernpowergrid.opendatasoft.com/api-console/explore/v2.1/
- type: License
  url: https://northernpowergrid.opendatasoft.com/p/opendatalicence/
- type: Explore
  url: https://northernpowergrid.opendatasoft.com/explore/
- type: Map
  url: https://northernpowergrid.opendatasoft.com/map/
- type: Dashboards
  url: https://northernpowergrid.opendatasoft.com/pages/portal_dashboards/
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/northernpowergrid
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/northern-powergrid/
- type: ParentCompany
  url: https://www.brkenergy.com/our-businesses/northern-powergrid
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

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