14 Day Ahead Operational Metered Windfarm-Level Wind Forecast

This resource contains the windfarm-level 0-14 day ahead wind forecasts for all the windfarms which provide real-time operational metering (SCADA telemetry) to the ESO.

The regions used in this resource are defined using the ITL 1 regions for England alongside the DNO License areas for Wales and Scotland extended to their national borders. Offshore wind regions use the IHO Sea Areas split by which land area their connection to the mainland is in.

CKAN Data API

Access resource data via a web API with powerful query support.
Further information in the main CKAN Data API and DataStore documentation.

The Data API can be accessed via the following actions of the CKAN action API.

Query
`https://api.nationalgrideso.com/api/3/action/datastore_search`
Query (via SQL)
`https://api.nationalgrideso.com/api/3/action/datastore_search_sql`

Query example (first 5 results)
`https://api.nationalgrideso.com/api/3/action/datastore_search?resource_id=31e6d895-af48-41bd-a4db-28a78c7e9c4b&limit=5`
Query example (via SQL statement)
`https://api.nationalgrideso.com/api/3/action/datastore_search_sql?sql=SELECT * from "31e6d895-af48-41bd-a4db-28a78c7e9c4b" LIMIT 5`

A simple ajax (JSONP) request to the data API using jQuery.

var data = {
  resource_id: '31e6d895-af48-41bd-a4db-28a78c7e9c4b', // the resource id
  limit: 5 // get 5 results
};
$.ajax({
  url: 'https://api.nationalgrideso.com/api/3/action/datastore_search',
  data: data,
  dataType: 'jsonp',
  success: function(data) {
    alert('Total results found: ' + data.result.total)
  }
});

A simple ajax (JSONP) request to the data API using jQuery.

import urllib2
  url = 'https://api.nationalgrideso.com/api/3/action/datastore_search?resource_id=31e6d895-af48-41bd-a4db-28a78c7e9c4b&limit=5'
  fileobj = urllib2.urlopen(url)
  print fileobj.read()

Download (CSV)

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Table Information

Datetime

Title	Datetime
Type	datetime
Description	Datetime for which the forecast is made
Comment
Example	2021-02-22T00:00:00
Unit	ISO 8601 (UTC)

Date

Title	Date
Type	date
Description	Date for which the forecast is made.
Comment
Example	2021-02-22
Unit

Settlement_Period

Title	Settlement Period
Type	integer
Description	The settlement period for which the forecast is for
Comment	Settlement period 1 represents the half hour ending 00:30 UK Time with settlement periods occurring at 30 minute intervals.
Example	12
Unit

Generator_Name

Title	Generator Name
Type	string
Description	The shortened name of the wind farm the forecast has been made for.
Comment
Example	ABRBO-1
Unit

Generator_Full_Name

Title	Generator Full Name
Type	string
Description	The full name of the wind farm the forecast has been made for.
Comment
Example	Aberdeen Bay
Unit

Region

Title	Region
Type	string
Description	The region of the UK the windfarm is situated within
Comment	The regions used in this resource are defined using the ITL 1 regions for England alongside the DNO License areas for Wales and Scotland extended to their national borders. Offshore wind regions use the IHO Sea Areas split by which land area their connection to the mainland is in.
Example	NORTH SEA - NORTH SCOTLAND
Unit

Capacity

Title	Capacity
Type	number
Description	This is the operational wind capacity of the windfarm that is connected to the National Grid Transmission Network
Comment
Example	95
Unit	MW

Wind_Forecast

Title	Wind Forecast
Type	number
Description	Wind forecast for each half hourly settlement period
Comment
Example	78.7018375
Unit	MW

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14 Day Ahead Operational Metered Windfarm-Level Wind Forecast

CKAN Data API

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Table Information

Datetime

Date

Settlement_Period

Generator_Name

Generator_Full_Name

Region

Capacity

Wind_Forecast