Day Ahead Wind BMU Forecast

This resource contains the BMU-level day ahead wind forecasts for all the windfarms which are used to produce ESO's national day ahead wind forecast. This is not a complete list of BMU's within ESO systems and excludes license exempt windfarms.

The regions used in this resource are defined using the ITL 1 regions for England alongside the DNO Licence 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=90e581e9-2d7f-4eaa-8fe0-6e323ee0f5f7&limit=5`
Query example (via SQL statement)
`https://api.nationalgrideso.com/api/3/action/datastore_search_sql?sql=SELECT * from "90e581e9-2d7f-4eaa-8fe0-6e323ee0f5f7" LIMIT 5`

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

var data = {
  resource_id: '90e581e9-2d7f-4eaa-8fe0-6e323ee0f5f7', // 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=90e581e9-2d7f-4eaa-8fe0-6e323ee0f5f7&limit=5'
  fileobj = urllib2.urlopen(url)
  print fileobj.read()

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Table Information

Datetime

Title	Date & Time
Type	datetime
Description	Date and time for which the forecast is made
Comment
Example	2021-02-22T00:00:00
Unit	UTC ISO 8601

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	A number representing a sequence of time periods of 30 minutes ending at the half hour or hour throughout the day
Comment
Example	12
Unit

Generator_Name

Title	Generator Name
Type	string
Description	Anonymised generator name.
Comment
Example	WINDFARM_1
Unit

Generator_Full_Name

Title	Generator_Full_Name
Type	string
Description	Generator Full Name
Comment
Example
Unit

Region

Title	Region
Type	string
Description	Region
Comment
Example
Unit

Capacity

Title	Capacity
Type	number
Description	This is the total operational wind capacity that is connected to the National Grid Transmission Network
Comment
Example	16891
Unit	MW

Wind_Forecast

Title	Wind Forecast
Type	number
Description	Wind forecast for each half hourly settlement period
Comment
Example	8009
Unit	MW

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Day Ahead Wind BMU Forecast

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Table Information

Datetime

Date

Settlement_Period

Generator_Name

Generator_Full_Name

Region

Capacity

Wind_Forecast