# Northern Powergrid

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/northern-powergrid/  
**Website:** https://www.northernpowergrid.com/  
**APIs profiled:** 3

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.

## Kin Score — 55.3 / 100 (developing)

Scored 2026-08-17 under rubric 0.11.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 55.3).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 92.6 |
| Contract Quality | 56.7 |
| Governance | 11.5 |
| Operational Transparency | 65.8 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 66.8 |
| Commercial Clarity | 34.2 |

Regulatory layer — **Energy & Utilities**: 64.9 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 51.1 (agent-native)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| MCP Server | derived |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | documented |
| Error Semantics | documented |
| OpenAPI Examples | verified |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | derived |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | yes |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Free · Anonymous read, free registration for full data — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: free, trial: no (confidence: high).

## APIs (3)

- **Northern Powergrid Open Data Explore API** — 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). S...
- **Northern Powergrid Open Data Explore API v2.0** — 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-iden...
- **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...

## MCP servers (1)

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

## Agentic access (1)

- **Northern Powergrid Agentic Access** — 32 operations

## Security (3)

- **Northern Powergrid Authentication** — none/apiKey/oauth2 · 4 schemes
- **Northern Powergrid Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC
- **Northern Powergrid Vulnerability Disclosure** — Hackerone · security.txt · contact published

## Tags

Energy, United Kingdom, Utilities, Electricity, Grid, Open Data, Distribution Network Operator, Smart Metering, Network Capacity, Flexibility, DER, Renewables

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