Day Ahead Wind Forecast

Publication frequency: daily.

Publication time: between 09:00 and 09:15 (clock time).

This is the ESO's day ahead operational metered wind forecast; the wind power forecast is in megawatts (MW).

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=b2f03146-f05d-4824-a663-3a4f36090c71&limit=5`
Query example (via SQL statement)
`https://api.nationalgrideso.com/api/3/action/datastore_search_sql?sql=SELECT * from "b2f03146-f05d-4824-a663-3a4f36090c71" LIMIT 5`

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

var data = {
  resource_id: 'b2f03146-f05d-4824-a663-3a4f36090c71', // 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=b2f03146-f05d-4824-a663-3a4f36090c71&limit=5'
  fileobj = urllib2.urlopen(url)
  print fileobj.read()

Download (CSV)

Data Explorer

Table Information

Datetime_GMT

Title	Datetime
Type	datetime
Description	Datetime for which the forecast is made
Comment
Example	2021-02-22T00:00:00
Unit	ISO 8601 (UTC)

Date

Title	Date
Type	datetime
Description	Date for which the forecast is made.
Comment
Example	2021-02-22
Unit

Settlement_period

Title	Settlement Period
Type	integer
Description	The settlement period for which the forecast is for
Comment	Settlement period 1 represents the half hour ending 00:30 UK Time with settlement periods occurring at 30 minute intervals.
Example	12
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	15594
Unit	MW

Incentive_forecast

Title	Wind Forecast
Type	number
Description	Wind forecast for each half hourly settlement period
Comment
Example	13188
Unit	MW

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Day Ahead Wind Forecast

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Table Information

Datetime_GMT

Date

Settlement_period

Capacity

Incentive_forecast