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 3 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network, including Catalog API, Dataset API, and 1 more. Tagged areas include Energy, United Kingdom, Utilities, Electricity, and Grid.
The Northern Powergrid catalog on APIs.io includes 1 Spectral governance ruleset.
Northern Powergrid’s developer surface includes authentication, changelog, code examples, sandbox, API reference, getting-started guide, support, and 41 more developer resources.
What this lets a business do 1
Business capabilities this provider's published APIs can perform, derived from its own contracts. Browse all capabilities →
Kin Score
Kin Score
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- MCP Server +12 pts — deployment.mode + probe verdict on the mcp/ manifest, not the pointer; an unprobed slug falls back to authorship
- A2A Agent Card +8 pts — a2a/
-a2a.yml manifest, graded on conformance.grade against A2A 1.0.0 - Registration Without a Human +6 pts — a `registration_endpoint` in the served RFC 8414 / OIDC discovery document
- Delegated User Identity +6 pts — a served discovery document listing authorization_code in grant_types_supported (served), else an oauth2 authorizationCode flow or openIdConnect declared in an OpenAPI (documented)
- Typed Event Surface +6 pts — AsyncAPI document, OR webhooks/callbacks objects in the as-published OpenAPI, OR common[].type includes Webhooks
- Protected Resource Metadata +5 pts — a served /.well-known/oauth-protected-resource carrying `resource` (documented), and naming its authorization_servers (verified)
- Access Clarity scores 34.2 — up to +13.2 composite points
- Contract Quality scores 59.9 — up to +10.0 composite points
- Contract Governance scores 18.2 — up to +9.8 composite points
Markets this provider is in provisional
The Kin Score Market layer reads a provider inside its market: its position, and how deep its integrations go. Depth is only comparable within a position. Provisional and unweighted: not part of the Kin Score or agent readiness.
| Market | Position | Depth | Registered MCP server | Declares compatibility |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Carbon Accounting Disclosure Standards (SBTi, PCAF, CDP, GHG Protocol) | standard | 17.2 (thin) | - | - |
| UK G-Cloud Suppliers (UK public-sector cloud procurement) | standard | 17.2 (thin) | - | - |
Registered MCP server and declares compatibility are report only — not weighted. Undeclared means we found nothing we can read, so there is no number: we never infer integrations.
Standards implemented 2
Standards this provider implements or carries. De facto ones are profiled and measured by the API Commons; formal ones come from the standards directory and are linked by the provider's own tags. The evidence column says how each claim was established — not that it was made.
APIs 3
Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.
Northern Powergrid Open Data Search API v1
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...
Northern Powergrid Catalog API
API to enumerate datasets
Northern Powergrid Dataset API
API to work on records
Open Collections 2
Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).
Explore API
OPEN COLLECTIONExplore API
OPEN COLLECTIONAgent Skills 3
Packaged agent skills for driving this provider's APIs from an AI assistant.
Rate Limits 1
Documented rate limits and quota policies.
Northern Powergrid Rate Limits
RATE LIMITSSpectral Rules 1
Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.
Northern Powergrid API Rules
SPECTRALOpenAPI Overlays 2
Overlays applied on top of this provider's contracts. Each card says who wrote it: a document the provider publishes, or one API Evangelist derived or generated.
Security Posture 3
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.
Scopes 1
OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.
Agentic Access 1
Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.
Resources
Get Started 6
Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call
Documentation 2
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Agent Surfaces 5
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Design & Contract 7
Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events
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Build 5
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 6
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Operate 5
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 3
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 2
The organization behind the API
Other 7
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
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Source (apis.yml)
Northern Powergrid API — frequently asked questions
Does Northern Powergrid have an API?
Yes. APIs.io lists 3 APIs from Northern Powergrid, including Northern Powergrid Open Data Search API v1, Northern Powergrid Catalog API and Northern Powergrid Dataset API.
Is there an OpenAPI specification for the Northern Powergrid API?
Yes. APIs.io indexes 2 OpenAPI specifications for Northern Powergrid, each linked for download from this page.
How do I authenticate with the Northern Powergrid API?
Northern Powergrid uses bearer-token authentication (none/apiKey/oauth2 · 4 schemes). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Northern Powergrid Authentication.
Is the Northern Powergrid API ready for AI agents?
Northern Powergrid has a Kin Score of 57.9 out of 100 (strong) and an Agent Readiness score of 35.0 (agent-ready), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.
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