National Grid ESO

name: National Grid ESO
description: National Energy System Operator (NESO) provides open data APIs for
  the UK electricity system, including carbon intensity forecasts, demand data,
  generation mix, ancillary services, balancing costs, and operational data for
  Great Britain's electricity network. The Carbon Intensity API delivers 96+ hour
  ahead forecasts at both national and regional levels, while the NESO Data Portal
  (CKAN-based) exposes hundreds of datasets covering the full spectrum of electricity
  system operations.
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tags:
  - Energy
  - Electricity
  - Carbon Intensity
  - UK
  - Open Data
  - Sustainability
  - Grid Operations
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/national-grid/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-06-13'
modified: '2026-06-13'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
  - name: Carbon Intensity API
    description: Official Carbon Intensity forecast API for Great Britain, developed
      by NESO in partnership with EDF Europe, University of Oxford, and WWF. Provides
      96+ hour ahead national and regional carbon intensity forecasts, generation mix
      data, and historical carbon intensity statistics across 14 GB regions and by
      outward postcode.
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    humanURL: https://carbonintensity.org.uk/
    baseURL: https://api.carbonintensity.org.uk
    tags:
      - Carbon Intensity
      - Electricity
      - Sustainability
      - Forecasting
      - Generation Mix
      - Regional Data
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://carbon-intensity.github.io/api-definitions/
      - type: OpenAPI
        url: https://carbon-intensity.github.io/api-definitions/
      - type: GitHubOrganization
        url: https://github.com/carbon-intensity
      - type: TermsOfService
        url: https://github.com/carbon-intensity/terms
      - type: License
        url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
    contact:
      - FN: NESO Carbon Intensity Team
        email: [email protected]
    overlays:
      - type: APIs.io Search
        url: overlays/carbon-intensity-openapi-search.yml
    aid: national-grid:carbon-intensity-api

  - name: NESO Data Portal API
    description: CKAN-based REST API providing programmatic access to hundreds of
      electricity system datasets published by the National Energy System Operator.
      Covers ancillary services, balancing costs, carbon intensity, connection
      registers, constraint management, demand forecasts, generation data, network
      charges, trading data, Future Energy Scenarios, and more. Rate limited to one
      request per second for the catalog API and two requests per minute for the
      Datastore (tabular data) API.
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    humanURL: https://www.neso.energy/data-portal
    baseURL: https://api.neso.energy/api/3/action
    tags:
      - Energy Data
      - Open Data
      - Demand Forecasting
      - Generation
      - Ancillary Services
      - Balancing Costs
      - Carbon Intensity
      - CKAN
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://www.neso.energy/data-portal/api-guidance
      - type: ExternalDocumentation
        url: https://docs.ckan.org/en/2.8/api/
      - type: Portal
        url: https://www.neso.energy/data-portal
      - type: RateLimits
        url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/national-grid/refs/heads/main/rate-limits/neso-data-portal-rate-limits.yml
      - type: Plans
        url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/national-grid/refs/heads/main/plans/neso-data-portal-plans.yml
    contact:
      - FN: NESO Open Data Team
        email: [email protected]
    overlays:
      - type: APIs.io Search
        url: overlays/neso-data-portal-openapi-search.yml
    aid: national-grid:neso-data-portal-api

common:
  - type: Portal
    url: https://www.neso.energy/data-portal
  - type: News
    url: https://www.neso.energy/news-and-events
  - type: MediaCentre
    url: https://www.neso.energy/news-and-events/media-centre
  - type: About
    url: https://www.neso.energy/
  - type: License
    url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
  - type: TermsOfService
    url: https://github.com/carbon-intensity/terms
  - type: FAQ
    url: https://www.neso.energy/data-portal/about-data-portal
  - type: Support
    url: mailto:[email protected]
  - type: GitHubOrganization
    url: https://github.com/carbon-intensity

maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: [email protected]