Stability Pathfinder Utilisation Report 2023-2024

The utilisation report outlines the instances where the contracted units have been instructed by the ESO control room to deliver the stability service. Service Start indicates the unit has been instructed and will be required to continue to deliver the service until the Service Cease instruction is received.

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=52af0f68-e1c3-45dd-ae7f-54f68e32e0c6&limit=5`
Query example (via SQL statement)
`https://api.nationalgrideso.com/api/3/action/datastore_search_sql?sql=SELECT * from "52af0f68-e1c3-45dd-ae7f-54f68e32e0c6" LIMIT 5`

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

var data = {
  resource_id: '52af0f68-e1c3-45dd-ae7f-54f68e32e0c6', // 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=52af0f68-e1c3-45dd-ae7f-54f68e32e0c6&limit=5'
  fileobj = urllib2.urlopen(url)
  print fileobj.read()

Download (CSV)

Data Explorer

Table Information

UNIT

Title	UNIT
Type	string
Description	Identifier of the unit that the information relates to
Comment	BMU ID where applicable
Example	UNIT-1
Unit

Settlement Period Start Date Time

Title	Settlement Period Start Date Time
Type	datetime
Description	The identifier of the start date time of the Settlement Period that the information relates to
Comment
Example	11/07/2022 00:00
Unit

Settlement Period End Date Time

Title	Settlement Period End Date Time
Type	datetime
Description	The identifier of the end date time of the Settlement Period that the information relates to
Comment
Example	11/07/2022 00:30
Unit

Instruction Code

Title	Instruction Code
Type	string
Description	Identifier of the type of instruction issued in this Settlement Period
Comment	Service Start - Unit instructed to start delivery Stability Service; Service Cease - Unit instructed to cease delivery of Stability Service; No - No instruction issued in this Settlement Period
Example	Service Start; Service Cease
Unit

Instruction Issue Time

Title	Instruction Issue Time
Type	datetime
Description	The date and time the start or cease instruction was issued by ESO
Comment
Example	11/07/2022 00:30
Unit

Actual Service Start or Cease Time

Title	Actual Service Start or Cease Time
Type	datetime
Description	The actual date time the unit started or ceased delivery of the Stability service
Comment
Example
Unit

Inertia

Title	Inertia
Type	integer
Description	The amount of inertia contributes to the network when it has been instructed to deliver the stability service
Comment
Example	472
Unit

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Stability Pathfinder Utilisation Report 2023-2024

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Table Information

UNIT

Settlement Period Start Date Time

Settlement Period End Date Time

Instruction Code

Instruction Issue Time

Actual Service Start or Cease Time

Inertia