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: Open Data Explore API and Open Data Explore API v2.0. 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 38 more developer resources.

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55.3/100 developing ▬ flat Agent 51/100 agent native Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-08-17 · rubric v0.11.0

AccessFreeSelf serve⚡ Free to try

3 APIs 1 MCP Servers

EnergyUnited KingdomUtilitiesElectricityGridOpen DataDistribution Network OperatorSmart MeteringNetwork CapacityFlexibilityDERRenewables

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scored 2026-08-17 · rubric v0.11.0

Composite quality — 55.3/100 · developing

Contract Quality 12.0 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 11.4 / 17

Commercial Clarity 5.8 / 17

Operational Transparency 7.3 / 11

Governance 1.2 / 10

Discoverability 7.9 / 9

Regulatory Posture 9.7 / 15

Agent readiness — 51/100 · agent native

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

MCP Server 12 / 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 3 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

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APIs 3

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

MCP Servers 1

Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.

Candidate MCP tool set derived from the OpenAPI (no server published)

MCP SERVER

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Scopes 1

OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.

Northern Powergrid Scopes

1 scope · authorizationCode

1 scopes

SCOPES

Agentic Access 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Northern Powergrid Agentic Access

32 operations

32 operations · 0 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Get Started 6

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Sandbox

Sandbox

GettingStarted

GettingStarted

SignUp

SignUp

Login

Portal

Portal

APIConsole

APIConsole

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

APIReference

APIReference

Documentation

Documentation

Agent Surfaces 5

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

MCPServer

AgentSkill

LLMsTxt

WellKnown

Design & Contract 7

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Conventions

Idempotency

ErrorCatalog

Lifecycle

Conformance

DataModel

Components

Scroll for all 7

Build 5

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Examples

Packages

SDKs

ToolCrosswalk

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Access & Security 6

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

Authentication

OAuthScopes

SecurityTxt

VulnerabilityDisclosure

VulnerabilityDisclosure

Security

Security

Operate 5

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

RateLimits

Deprecation

ChangeLog

Support

Roadmap

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

License

License

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

LinkedIn

Other 4

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

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.'
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: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: northern-powergrid:northern-powergrid-open-data-explore-api
  name: Northern Powergrid Open Data Explore API
  description: 'The current Opendatasoft Explore REST API (v2.1) over Northern Powergrid''s open data portal. Read only, GET
    only, JSON only, driven by the Opendatasoft Query Language (ODSQL). Sixteen documented paths cover catalog search, dataset
    metadata, facets, record retrieval, attachments, DCAT-AP catalogue export and per-dataset exports to CSV, Parquet and
    GPX. Confirmed answering anonymously on 2026-07-27 — the catalog reports 102 datasets and the live power cuts dataset
    returned 229 open incidents in real time. Anonymous callers get 5,000 requests per day (observed x-ratelimit-limit: 5000,
    resetting daily); an optional apikey query parameter from a free portal account raises the allowance and unlocks the datasets
    whose records are hidden from anonymous callers.'
  humanURL: https://northernpowergrid.opendatasoft.com/api/explore/v2.1/console
  baseURL: https://northernpowergrid.opendatasoft.com/api/explore/v2.1
  tags:
  - Open Data
  - Energy
  - Electricity
  - Grid
  - Network Capacity
  - Outages
  - Geospatial
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/northern-powergrid-open-data-explore-api-v2-1-openapi.json
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/northern-powergrid-open-data-explore-api-v2-1-overlay.yaml
  - 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
- aid: northern-powergrid:northern-powergrid-open-data-explore-api-v2-0
  name: Northern Powergrid Open Data Explore API v2.0
  description: The previous major version of the Opendatasoft Explore REST API, still served and still publishing its own
    OpenAPI 3.0.3 description at /api/explore/v2.0/swagger.json. Byte-identical to the document served at the legacy /api/v2/swagger.json
    alias. Same sixteen paths and same read-only, GET-only, ODSQL-driven shape as v2.1; recorded separately because both descriptions
    are independently published and versioned by the platform.
  humanURL: https://northernpowergrid.opendatasoft.com/api/explore/v2.0/console
  baseURL: https://northernpowergrid.opendatasoft.com/api/explore/v2.0
  tags:
  - Open Data
  - Energy
  - Electricity
  - Legacy
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/northern-powergrid-open-data-explore-api-v2-0-openapi.json
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/northern-powergrid-open-data-explore-api-v2-0-overlay.yaml
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://northernpowergrid.opendatasoft.com/api/explore/v2.0/console
  - type: Portal
    url: https://northernpowergrid.opendatasoft.com/
  - type: ExternalDocumentation
    url: https://help.huwise.com/apis/ods-explore-v2/
- 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/
common:
- 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: MCPServer
  name: Candidate MCP tool set derived from the OpenAPI (no server published)
  url: mcp/northern-powergrid-mcp.yml
- 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

Northern Powergrid

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APIs 3

Northern Powergrid Open Data Explore API

Northern Powergrid Open Data Explore API v2.0

Northern Powergrid Open Data Search API v1

Open Collections 2

Explore API