ScottishPower

ScottishPower (Scottish Power Limited, Glasgow) is one of the "Big Six" British energy companies and has been wholly owned by Spain's Iberdrola since 2007. It is unusual in the post-liberalisation UK market for still spanning three regulated roles at once: ScottishPower Energy Retail supplies electricity and gas to millions of British homes and businesses; SP Energy Networks is the licensed distribution network operator for central and southern Scotland (SP Distribution), Merseyside, Cheshire and North Wales (SP Manweb), plus the transmission owner for southern Scotland (SP Transmission); and ScottishPower Renewables develops and operates onshore and offshore wind. That structure produces the sharpest possible version of this sector's split, and the split is the finding. On the consumer side there is nothing — Britain has no Consumer Data Right, no Green Button mandate and no consumer energy data-portability obligation of any kind, and ScottishPower publishes no developer portal, no self-serve API programme and no documented way for a third party to obtain an individual customer's usage or billing data. developer.scottishpower.co.uk, developers.scottishpower.co.uk, data.scottishpower.co.uk and docs.scottishpower.co.uk do not resolve at all, api.scottishpower.co.uk exists in DNS but returns HTTP 403, and www.scottishpower.co.uk returns HTTP 403 to every anonymous client on every path including /robots.txt. The only public account of ScottishPower's API programme is a WSO2 customer story describing an API Manager deployment used to expose services to commercial partners — an internal, partner-gated estate, not a developer programme. On the network side the picture inverts completely. Ofgem's Data Best Practice Guidance, made a licence condition under the RIIO-ED2 price control (Special Licence Condition 9.5), obliges electricity network licensees to treat their data as "presumed open", and SP Energy Networks has actually built that: the SP Energy Networks Open Data Portal at spenergynetworks.opendatasoft.com serves 150 datasets — embedded capacity register, network flow, historic substation demand, LV monitoring, smart-meter penetration, generation heat maps, flexibility and connections data — through a live, fully anonymous Opendatasoft Explore API v2.1 with a real OpenAPI 3.0.3 contract, CORS wide open, a 5,000 request/day anonymous quota, a DCAT-AP catalogue export, and an SP Energy Networks Open Data Licence based on Creative Commons Attribution 4.0. Britain mandated the infrastructure and the network data, not the data right — ScottishPower is the proof. Its smart-meter obligation runs through the Smart DCC and the Smart Energy Code, which is an infrastructure monopoly for licensed parties rather than a consumer data right, and no public register entry or endpoint for that obligation could be verified from outside.

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

ScottishPower’s developer surface includes authentication, changelog, code examples, API reference, getting-started guide, signup flow, documentation, and 32 more developer resources.

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42.7/100 developing ▬ flat Agent 31/100 agent ready saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0

1 APIs

Energy United Kingdom Utilities Electricity Gas Energy Retailer Smart Metering Grid Open Data Distribution Network Operator Renewables Energy Markets

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Composite quality — 42.7/100 · developing

Contract Quality 3.6 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 9.6 / 17

Access Clarity 5.8 / 17

Operational Transparency 6.1 / 11

Contract Governance 0.5 / 10

Discoverability 6.5 / 9

Regulatory Posture 7.9 / 15

Agent readiness — 31/100 · agent ready

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 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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APIs 3

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

SP Energy Networks Open Data Search API (v1.0)

The legacy Opendatasoft Search API v1.0 still served alongside Explore v2.1 on the SP Energy Networks Open Data Portal. Verified anonymously on 2026-07-27: GET /api/datasets/1.0...

ScottishPower Catalog API

API to enumerate datasets

ScottishPower Dataset API

API to work on records

Open Collections 1

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

Explore API

OPEN COLLECTION

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Scottishpower Rate Limits

2 limits

RATE LIMITS

Examples 3

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

Scottishpower Catalog Facets Example

2 fields

EXAMPLE

Scottishpower List Datasets Example

2 fields

EXAMPLE

Scottishpower Query Records Example

2 fields

EXAMPLE

Security Posture 3

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Scottishpower Authentication

apiKey · 2 schemes

SECURITY

Scottishpower Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Scottishpower Vulnerability Disclosure

Hackerone · security.txt · contact published

SECURITY

Resources

Get Started 5

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

DeveloperPortal

DeveloperPortal

GettingStarted

GettingStarted

SignUp

SignUp

Login

PortalHome

PortalHome

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

APIReference

APIReference

Documentation

Documentation

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MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

WellKnown

WellKnown

X-MCPServerCandidate

X-MCPServerCandidate

AgentSkill

AgentSkill

LLMsTxt

LLMsTxt

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Conventions

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Packages

Packages

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VulnerabilityDisclosure

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Security

DomainSecurity

Authentication

SecurityTxt

Operate 6

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

RateLimits

Deprecation

ChangeLog

Support

Forum

FAQ

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Website

Website

Other 3

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Overlay

Overlay

Licensing

Licensing

Licensing

Licensing

Source (apis.yml)

aid: scottishpower
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/scottishpower/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
name: ScottishPower
kind: company
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: true
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: high
  source:
  - openapi
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source:
  - authentication
  - rate-limits
  - security
  generated: '2026-09-03'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
tags:
- Energy
- United Kingdom
- Utilities
- Electricity
- Gas
- Energy Retailer
- Smart Metering
- Grid
- Open Data
- Distribution Network Operator
- Renewables
- Energy Markets
created: '2026-07-27'
modified: '2026-07-27'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
description: 'ScottishPower (Scottish Power Limited, Glasgow) is one of the "Big Six" British energy companies and has been
  wholly owned by Spain''s Iberdrola since 2007. It is unusual in the post-liberalisation UK market for still spanning three
  regulated roles at once: ScottishPower Energy Retail supplies electricity and gas to millions of British homes and businesses;
  SP Energy Networks is the licensed distribution network operator for central and southern Scotland (SP Distribution), Merseyside,
  Cheshire and North Wales (SP Manweb), plus the transmission owner for southern Scotland (SP Transmission); and ScottishPower
  Renewables develops and operates onshore and offshore wind. That structure produces the sharpest possible version of this
  sector''s split, and the split is the finding. On the consumer side there is nothing — Britain has no Consumer Data Right,
  no Green Button mandate and no consumer energy data-portability obligation of any kind, and ScottishPower publishes no developer
  portal, no self-serve API programme and no documented way for a third party to obtain an individual customer''s usage or
  billing data. developer.scottishpower.co.uk, developers.scottishpower.co.uk, data.scottishpower.co.uk and docs.scottishpower.co.uk
  do not resolve at all, api.scottishpower.co.uk exists in DNS but returns HTTP 403, and www.scottishpower.co.uk returns HTTP
  403 to every anonymous client on every path including /robots.txt. The only public account of ScottishPower''s API programme
  is a WSO2 customer story describing an API Manager deployment used to expose services to commercial partners — an internal,
  partner-gated estate, not a developer programme. On the network side the picture inverts completely. Ofgem''s Data Best
  Practice Guidance, made a licence condition under the RIIO-ED2 price control (Special Licence Condition 9.5), obliges electricity
  network licensees to treat their data as "presumed open", and SP Energy Networks has actually built that: the SP Energy
  Networks Open Data Portal at spenergynetworks.opendatasoft.com serves 150 datasets — embedded capacity register, network
  flow, historic substation demand, LV monitoring, smart-meter penetration, generation heat maps, flexibility and connections
  data — through a live, fully anonymous Opendatasoft Explore API v2.1 with a real OpenAPI 3.0.3 contract, CORS wide open,
  a 5,000 request/day anonymous quota, a DCAT-AP catalogue export, and an SP Energy Networks Open Data Licence based on Creative
  Commons Attribution 4.0. Britain mandated the infrastructure and the network data, not the data right — ScottishPower is
  the proof. Its smart-meter obligation runs through the Smart DCC and the Smart Energy Code, which is an infrastructure monopoly
  for licensed parties rather than a consumer data right, and no public register entry or endpoint for that obligation could
  be verified from outside.'
apis:
- aid: scottishpower:spen-open-data-search-api-v1
  name: SP Energy Networks Open Data Search API (v1.0)
  description: 'The legacy Opendatasoft Search API v1.0 still served alongside Explore v2.1 on the SP Energy Networks Open
    Data Portal. Verified anonymously on 2026-07-27: GET /api/datasets/1.0/search/?rows=1 returned HTTP 200 with nhits 150,
    matching the v2.1 catalogue exactly. Recorded because it is live and callable without credentials, but it is superseded
    — new integrations should use the Explore v2.1 contract above. No first-party OpenAPI is published for this version by
    SP Energy Networks; the contract is Opendatasoft''s.'
  humanURL: https://help.opendatasoft.com/apis/ods-search-v1/
  baseURL: https://spenergynetworks.opendatasoft.com/api/datasets/1.0
  tags:
  - Open Data
  - Search
  - Energy
  - Legacy
  - United Kingdom
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://help.opendatasoft.com/apis/ods-search-v1/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://spenergynetworks.opendatasoft.com/api/datasets/1.0/search/
  - type: Licensing
    url: https://spenergynetworks.opendatasoft.com/p/sp-energy-networks-open-data-licence/
- aid: scottishpower:scottishpower-catalog-api
  name: ScottishPower Catalog API
  description: API to enumerate datasets
  humanURL: https://spenergynetworks.opendatasoft.com/api/explore/v2.1/console
  baseURL: https://spenergynetworks.opendatasoft.com/api/explore/v2.1
  tags:
  - Catalog
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/scottishpower-catalog-api-openapi.yml
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://spenergynetworks.opendatasoft.com/api/explore/v2.1/console
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://help.opendatasoft.com/apis/ods-explore-v2/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://spenergynetworks.opendatasoft.com/pages/support-help-main/
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://spenergynetworks.opendatasoft.com/explore/
  - type: Licensing
    url: https://spenergynetworks.opendatasoft.com/p/sp-energy-networks-open-data-licence/
  - type: TermsOfService
    url: https://spenergynetworks.opendatasoft.com/terms/
  - type: Glossary
    url: https://spenergynetworks.opendatasoft.com/glossary/
- aid: scottishpower:scottishpower-dataset-api
  name: ScottishPower Dataset API
  description: API to work on records
  humanURL: https://spenergynetworks.opendatasoft.com/api/explore/v2.1/console
  baseURL: https://spenergynetworks.opendatasoft.com/api/explore/v2.1
  tags:
  - Dataset
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/scottishpower-dataset-api-openapi.yml
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://spenergynetworks.opendatasoft.com/api/explore/v2.1/console
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://help.opendatasoft.com/apis/ods-explore-v2/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://spenergynetworks.opendatasoft.com/pages/support-help-main/
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://spenergynetworks.opendatasoft.com/explore/
  - type: Licensing
    url: https://spenergynetworks.opendatasoft.com/p/sp-energy-networks-open-data-licence/
  - type: TermsOfService
    url: https://spenergynetworks.opendatasoft.com/terms/
  - type: Glossary
    url: https://spenergynetworks.opendatasoft.com/glossary/
common:
- type: Overlay
  url: overlays/scottishpower-spen-open-data-explore-api-overlay.yaml
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/scottishpower-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: Security
  name: RFC 9116 security.txt served on the API host (Opendatasoft platform contact)
  url: https://spenergynetworks.opendatasoft.com/.well-known/security.txt
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/scottishpower-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/scottishpower-authentication.yml
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/scottishpower-well-known.yml
- type: SecurityTxt
  url: well-known/scottishpower-security.txt
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/scottishpower-conventions.yml
- type: Idempotency
  name: Read-only contract — GET only, so every operation is safe and idempotent
  url: conventions/scottishpower-conventions.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/scottishpower-problem-types.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/scottishpower-rate-limits.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/scottishpower-lifecycle.yml
- type: Deprecation
  name: Versioning and deprecation policy (ODS-Explore-API-Deprecation header)
  url: https://help.opendatasoft.com/apis/ods-explore-v2/
- type: ChangeLog
  url: changelog/scottishpower-changelog.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/scottishpower-conformance.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/scottishpower-data-model.yml
- type: Examples
  url: examples/_index.yml
- type: Packages
  url: packages/scottishpower-packages.yml
- type: Components
  url: components/scottishpower-components.yml
- type: X-MCPServerCandidate
  name: Candidate MCP tool surface derived from the OpenAPI (no provider-operated server)
  url: mcp/scottishpower-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/scottishpower-tool-crosswalk.yml
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/scottishpower-llms.txt
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://spenergynetworks.opendatasoft.com/
- type: APIReference
  url: https://spenergynetworks.opendatasoft.com/api/explore/v2.1/console
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://spenergynetworks.opendatasoft.com/explore/
- type: SignUp
  url: https://spenergynetworks.opendatasoft.com/signup/
- type: Login
  url: https://spenergynetworks.opendatasoft.com/login/
- type: Website
  url: https://www.scottishpower.co.uk/
- type: Website
  url: https://www.spenergynetworks.co.uk/
- type: PortalHome
  url: https://spenergynetworks.opendatasoft.com/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://www.spenergynetworks.co.uk/pages/energy_data_hub.aspx
- type: Licensing
  url: https://spenergynetworks.opendatasoft.com/p/sp-energy-networks-open-data-licence/
- type: Licensing
  url: https://spenergynetworks.opendatasoft.com/p/sp-energy-networks-shared-data-licence/
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://spenergynetworks.opendatasoft.com/terms/terms-and-conditions/
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://spenergynetworks.opendatasoft.com/terms/privacy-policy/
- type: Support
  url: https://spenergynetworks.opendatasoft.com/pages/support-help-main/
- type: Forum
  url: https://community.scottishpower.co.uk/
- type: FAQ
  url: https://spenergynetworks.opendatasoft.com/p/faq/
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

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