Historic Day Ahead Wind Forecasts

All historic day ahead wind forecasts from 2018 to the most recent forecast.

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=7524ec65-f782-4258-aaf8-5b926c17b966&limit=5`
Query example (via SQL statement)
`https://api.nationalgrideso.com/api/3/action/datastore_search_sql?sql=SELECT * from "7524ec65-f782-4258-aaf8-5b926c17b966" LIMIT 5`

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

var data = {
  resource_id: '7524ec65-f782-4258-aaf8-5b926c17b966', // 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=7524ec65-f782-4258-aaf8-5b926c17b966&limit=5'
  fileobj = urllib2.urlopen(url)
  print fileobj.read()

Download (CSV)

Data Explorer

Table Information

Datetime_GMT

Title	Forecast Datetime
Type	datetime
Description	The date-time for which the wind forecast is for in UTC.
Comment
Example	2021-03-28T17:00:00Z
Unit

Date

Title	Date
Type	date
Description	This is the date for which the forecast is produced
Comment
Example	2021-03-28T00:00:00Z
Unit

Settlement_period

Title	Settlement Period
Type	integer
Description	A period of 30 minutes beginning on the hour or the half-hour
Comment
Example	12
Unit

Capacity

Title	Wind Capacity
Type	number
Description	This is the total operational wind capacity that is connected to National Grid Transmission Network
Comment
Example	15594
Unit	MW

Incentive_forecast

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

Forecast_Timestamp

Title	Forecast Timestamp
Type	datetime
Description	The date and time at which the forecast was made.
Comment
Example	2021-03-27T07:20:01Z
Unit

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Historic Day Ahead Wind Forecasts

CKAN Data API

Data Explorer

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Table Information

Datetime_GMT

Date

Settlement_period

Capacity

Incentive_forecast

Forecast_Timestamp