2-14 Days Ahead Half Hourly 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=7c0411cd-2714-4bb5-a408-adb065edf34d&limit=5`
Query example (via SQL statement)
`https://api.nationalgrideso.com/api/3/action/datastore_search_sql?sql=SELECT * from "7c0411cd-2714-4bb5-a408-adb065edf34d" LIMIT 5`

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

var data = {
  resource_id: '7c0411cd-2714-4bb5-a408-adb065edf34d', // 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=7c0411cd-2714-4bb5-a408-adb065edf34d&limit=5'
  fileobj = urllib2.urlopen(url)
  print fileobj.read()

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Table Information

DATE

Title	Date
Type	date
Description	Date on which the forecast demand is occurring. This date is aligned with the GB timezone (BST/GMT).
Comment
Example	2021-11-16
Unit

CTIME

Title	Clock Time
Type	integer
Description	Time at which the forecast demand is occurring. This time uses the GB timezone (BST/GMT).
Comment
Example	130
Unit

GDATETIME

Title	Datetime
Type	datetime
Description	Datetime at which the demand is occurring. This is in GMT/UTC regardless of forecast date's GB timezone.
Comment
Example	2021-11-16T13:30:00
Unit

NATIONALDEMAND

Title	National Demand Forecast
Type	integer
Description	The demand forecast for the specified datetime.
Comment
Example	42000
Unit	MW

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2-14 Days Ahead Half Hourly Forecast

CKAN Data API

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Table Information

DATE

CTIME

GDATETIME

NATIONALDEMAND