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()

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Table Information

DAYSAHEAD

Title
Type	any
Description
Comment
Example
Unit

TARGETDATE

Title
Type	any
Description
Comment
Example
Unit

FORECASTDEMAND

Title
Type	any
Description
Comment
Example
Unit

CARDINALPOINT

Title
Type	string
Description
Comment
Example
Unit

CP_TYPE

Title
Type	string
Description
Comment
Example
Unit

CP_ST_TIME

Title
Type	any
Description
Comment
Example
Unit

CP_END_TIME

Title
Type	any
Description
Comment
Example
Unit

F_Point

Title
Type	string
Description
Comment
Example
Unit

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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