14 Days Ahead Wind Forecast

This resource contains the national 0-14 day ahead wind forecasts for all the windfarms which are used to produce ESO's national day ahead incentive wind forecasts. This is not a complete list of BMU's within ESO systems and excludes license exempt windfarms.

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=93c3048e-1dab-4057-a2a9-417540583929&limit=5`
Query example (via SQL statement)
`https://api.nationalgrideso.com/api/3/action/datastore_search_sql?sql=SELECT * from "93c3048e-1dab-4057-a2a9-417540583929" LIMIT 5`

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

var data = {
  resource_id: '93c3048e-1dab-4057-a2a9-417540583929', // 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=93c3048e-1dab-4057-a2a9-417540583929&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

Capacity

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

ForecastDatetime

Title	Forecast Date Time
Type	datetime
Description	Date and time of when the forecast is produced
Comment
Example	2021-02-22T17:12:09
Unit	UTC ISO 8601

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14 Days Ahead Wind Forecast

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Table Information

Datetime

Date

Settlement_period

Capacity

Wind_Forecast

ForecastDatetime