2-14 Days Ahead Cardinal Point Forecast

This is our 2-14 days ahead national demand forecast, updated twice daily. National Demand is the Great Britain generation requirement and is the sum of metered generation based on National Grid ESO’s operational generation metering, but excludes generation required to meet station load, pump storage pumping and interconnector exports.

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=9af18ed4-efc8-4779-bef5-c0927fee9b0a&limit=5`
Query example (via SQL statement)
`https://api.nationalgrideso.com/api/3/action/datastore_search_sql?sql=SELECT * from "9af18ed4-efc8-4779-bef5-c0927fee9b0a" LIMIT 5`

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

var data = {
  resource_id: '9af18ed4-efc8-4779-bef5-c0927fee9b0a', // 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=9af18ed4-efc8-4779-bef5-c0927fee9b0a&limit=5'
  fileobj = urllib2.urlopen(url)
  print fileobj.read()

Download (CSV)

Data Explorer

Table Information

DAYSAHEAD

Title	Days Ahead
Type	integer
Description	Number of days in advance the forecast was produced
Comment
Example	2
Unit	Days

TARGETDATE

Title	Target Date
Type	date
Description	The date the demand forecast is for
Comment
Example	2018-03-30T00:00:00Z
Unit

FORECASTDEMAND

Title	Forecast Demand
Type	integer
Description	National 2 day ahead demand forecast values.
Comment
Example	26810
Unit	MW

CARDINALPOINT

Title	Cardinal Point
Type	string
Description	Electricity demand fluctuates during a day depending on how much energy people, businesses and industries are using at that moment in time. As this electricity demand goes up and down we get characteristic peaks and troughs, with some of these peaks and troughs appearing every single day at similar times. These we call cardinal points and are the points during the day that we forecast demand for.
Comment
Example	1F
Unit

CP_TYPE

Title	Cardinal Point Type
Type	string
Description	Fixed, Trough or Peak. Cardinal points (CPs) can either be fixed (occur at a fixed time), trough (minimum demands during a set period of the day) or peak(maximum demands during a set period of the day). These are represented throught the first letter of the point type (F,T or P)
Comment
Example	T
Unit

CP_ST_TIME

Title	Cardinal Point Start Time
Type	integer
Description	The time when a particular cardinal point (CP) starts during the day. This is given relative to the timezone in effect in the UK at the forecast time and date.
Comment
Example	30
Unit

CP_END_TIME

Title	Cardinal Point End Time
Type	integer
Description	The time when a particular cardinal point (CP) ends during the day. This is given relative to the timezone in effect in the UK at the forecast time and date.
Comment
Example	30
Unit

F_Point

Title	Forecasting Point
Type	string
Description	Forecasts of forecasting points , Publishing forecasts of forecasting points: overnight demand minimum, daytime demand maximum, daytime demand minimum and evening demand maximum.
Comment	Forecasting point 1: Overnight minimum (OM): minimum national demand between half hour ending 00:30 and 07:30. Forecasting point 2: Daytime peak (DM): maximum national demand between half hour ending 08:00 and 13:00. Forecasting point 3: Daytime minimum (Dm): minimum national demand between half hour ending 13:30 and 16:30. Forecasting point 4: Evening peak (EM): maximum national demand between half hour ending 17:00 and 24:00.
Example	Om
Unit

For any queries or feedback please contact [email protected]

You are now signed in

2-14 Days Ahead Cardinal Point Forecast

CKAN Data API

Data Explorer

Data Explorer

Table Information

DAYSAHEAD

TARGETDATE

FORECASTDEMAND

CARDINALPOINT

CP_TYPE

CP_ST_TIME

CP_END_TIME

F_Point