# Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/ssen/  
**Website:** https://www.ssen.co.uk/  
**APIs profiled:** 4

Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks (SSEN) is the SSE plc electricity networks business in the United Kingdom, operating the poles-and-wires layer rather than selling energy. SSEN Distribution is the licensed Distribution Network Operator for two GB licence areas — Scottish Hydro Electric Power Distribution (SHEPD) in the north of Scotland and Southern Electric Power Distribution (SEPD) in central southern England — serving over 3.9 million homes and businesses, while SSEN Transmission owns and operates the high-voltage transmission system for the north of Scotland. Its API posture is the classic network-distributor split — grid and market data are genuinely open, consumer data is not offered at all. SSEN runs a CKAN open data portal whose anonymous Action API serves 45 datasets, an anonymous real-time outage API behind Power Track, a key-gated near-real-time power-flow API (NeRDA) covering EHV/HV/LV networks, and an Opendatasoft Explore API over 60 transmission datasets. There is no consumer data-portability mandate in Great Britain equivalent to the Australian Consumer Data Right or Ontario's Green Button regulation, and SSEN publishes no API through which a third party can obtain an individual customer's usage or billing data. What Britain mandated instead is infrastructure and disclosure — smart meter traffic runs through the licensed Smart DCC monopoly, and Ofgem's Data Best Practice licence condition under RIIO-ED2 obliges network licensees to treat data assets as Presumed Open subject to Open Data Triage. SSEN implements that obligation visibly — it became the first DNO to publish full smart meter half-hourly consumption data, aggregated to no fewer than five properties per LV feeder, and attaches published Open Data Triage records to its datasets.

## Kin Score — 49.7 / 100 (developing)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 49.7).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 92.6 |
| Contract Quality | 55.2 |
| Governance | 16.7 |
| Contract Governance | 16.7 |
| Operational Transparency | 31.6 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 51.8 |
| Commercial Clarity | 34.2 |
| Access Clarity | 34.2 |

Regulatory layer — **Energy & Utilities**: 41.9 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 50.3 (agent-native)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | na |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | na |
| 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 | na |

## APIs (4)

- **SSEN Distribution Data Portal API** — The public CKAN 2.10.10 Action API behind the SSEN Distribution Data Portal, serving 45 open datasets covering substations, LV feeder smart meter half-hourly usage, the Embedded...
- **SSEN Power Track Real Time Outage API** — Anonymous JSON API behind the SSEN Power Track map, returning planned and unplanned outages on the SSEN Distribution network with fault reference, type, latitude/longitude, esti...
- **SSEN NeRDA (Near Real-time Data Access) API** — Near real-time power flow data from SSEN Distribution's EHV, HV and LV networks, drawn from SCADA PowerOn, LV monitoring equipment, the load model forecasting tool, the connecti...
- **SSEN Transmission Open Data Explore API** — The Opendatasoft Explore API v2.1 served from the SSEN Transmission Open Data Portal, exposing 60 CC BY 4.0 transmission datasets — Electricity Ten Year Statement circuits and f...

## MCP servers (1)

- **Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks MCP Server** — SSEN publishes no MCP server. No hosted or remote MCP endpoint was found on any SSEN host, no @modelcontextprotocol package references SSEN, and neither the Opendatasoft nor the...

## Agentic access (1)

- **Ssen Agentic Access** — 16 operations

## Security (3)

- **Ssen Authentication** — apiKey · 1 scheme
- **Ssen Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC
- **Ssen Vulnerability Disclosure** — Hackerone · security.txt · contact published

## Tags

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

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