aid: northern-powergrid url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/northern-powergrid/refs/heads/main/apis.yml name: Northern Powergrid kind: company description: >- Northern Powergrid is the electricity distribution network operator (DNO) for the North East of England, Yorkshire and northern Lincolnshire, owning and running the poles, wires, substations and low-voltage network that deliver power to 4 million homes and businesses across roughly 10,000 square miles. It is a Berkshire Hathaway Energy company and it does not sell electricity — it moves it, so it holds no retail customer accounts and no billing relationship. Its API posture reflects that split exactly: the market and network side is genuinely open, with a live Opendatasoft-hosted open data portal publishing 102 datasets under the Northern Powergrid Open Data Licence v1.0 and a fully documented Explore REST API that answers anonymously at 5,000 requests a day, including live power cut incidents, operational metering, embedded capacity registers, network capacity headroom and aggregated smart meter consumption; the consumer side is empty, because Britain has no energy consumer data right equivalent to the Australian Consumer Data Right and a DNO would not be the obligated party if it did. The open data programme exists because Ofgem's Data Best Practice Guidance is a licence condition under the RIIO-ED2 price control, and unlike many mandates in this sector it is visibly implemented rather than merely claimed. Roughly 44 of the 102 datasets are metadata-visible but records-gated to anonymous callers and require a free self-serve portal registration to read. accessModel: pricing: free onboarding: self-serve trial: false try_now: true public: true label: Free · Anonymous read, free registration for full data confidence: high source: - probe - portal generated: '2026-07-27' method: derived image: https://s3-eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/aws-ec2-eu-central-1-opendatasoft-staticfileset/northernpowergrid/logo?tstamp=1668505636764573 tags: - Energy - United Kingdom - Utilities - Electricity - Grid - Open Data - Distribution Network Operator - Smart Metering - Network Capacity - Flexibility - DER - Renewables created: '2026-07-27' modified: '2026-07-27' specificationVersion: '0.19' apis: - aid: northern-powergrid:northern-powergrid-open-data-explore-api name: Northern Powergrid Open Data Explore API description: >- The current Opendatasoft Explore REST API (v2.1) over Northern Powergrid's open data portal. Read only, GET only, JSON only, driven by the Opendatasoft Query Language (ODSQL). Sixteen documented paths cover catalog search, dataset metadata, facets, record retrieval, attachments, DCAT-AP catalogue export and per-dataset exports to CSV, Parquet and GPX. Confirmed answering anonymously on 2026-07-27 — the catalog reports 102 datasets and the live power cuts dataset returned 229 open incidents in real time. Anonymous callers get 5,000 requests per day (observed x-ratelimit-limit: 5000, resetting daily); an optional apikey query parameter from a free portal account raises the allowance and unlocks the datasets whose records are hidden from anonymous callers. humanURL: https://northernpowergrid.opendatasoft.com/api/explore/v2.1/console baseURL: https://northernpowergrid.opendatasoft.com/api/explore/v2.1 tags: - Open Data - Energy - Electricity - Grid - Network Capacity - Outages - Geospatial properties: - type: OpenAPI url: openapi/northern-powergrid-open-data-explore-api-v2-1-openapi.json - type: Overlay url: overlays/northern-powergrid-open-data-explore-api-v2-1-overlay.yaml - type: APIReference url: https://northernpowergrid.opendatasoft.com/api/explore/v2.1/console - type: APIConsole url: https://northernpowergrid.opendatasoft.com/api-console/explore/v2.1/ - type: Portal url: https://northernpowergrid.opendatasoft.com/ - type: Explore url: https://northernpowergrid.opendatasoft.com/explore/ - type: Documentation url: https://northernpowergrid.opendatasoft.com/pages/tutorial_page/ - type: ExternalDocumentation url: https://help.huwise.com/apis/ods-explore-v2/ - type: License url: https://northernpowergrid.opendatasoft.com/p/opendatalicence/ - type: Catalog url: https://northernpowergrid.opendatasoft.com/api/explore/v2.1/catalog/exports/dcat - aid: northern-powergrid:northern-powergrid-open-data-explore-api-v2-0 name: Northern Powergrid Open Data Explore API v2.0 description: >- The previous major version of the Opendatasoft Explore REST API, still served and still publishing its own OpenAPI 3.0.3 description at /api/explore/v2.0/swagger.json. Byte-identical to the document served at the legacy /api/v2/swagger.json alias. Same sixteen paths and same read-only, GET-only, ODSQL-driven shape as v2.1; recorded separately because both descriptions are independently published and versioned by the platform. humanURL: https://northernpowergrid.opendatasoft.com/api/explore/v2.0/console baseURL: https://northernpowergrid.opendatasoft.com/api/explore/v2.0 tags: - Open Data - Energy - Electricity - Legacy properties: - type: OpenAPI url: openapi/northern-powergrid-open-data-explore-api-v2-0-openapi.json - type: Overlay url: overlays/northern-powergrid-open-data-explore-api-v2-0-overlay.yaml - type: APIReference url: https://northernpowergrid.opendatasoft.com/api/explore/v2.0/console - type: Portal url: https://northernpowergrid.opendatasoft.com/ - type: ExternalDocumentation url: https://help.huwise.com/apis/ods-explore-v2/ - aid: northern-powergrid:northern-powergrid-open-data-search-api-v1 name: Northern Powergrid Open Data Search API v1 description: >- The original Opendatasoft Search API, still live on the portal and still carrying its own interactive console. Confirmed anonymously on 2026-07-27 — GET /api/datasets/1.0/search/?rows=1 returned nhits 102, matching the v2.1 catalog count. No OpenAPI description is published by the platform for this generation of the API, so none was saved and none was written. humanURL: https://northernpowergrid.opendatasoft.com/api/v1/console baseURL: https://northernpowergrid.opendatasoft.com/api/datasets/1.0 tags: - Open Data - Energy - Search - Legacy properties: - type: APIReference url: https://northernpowergrid.opendatasoft.com/api/v1/console - type: Portal url: https://northernpowergrid.opendatasoft.com/ common: - type: AgenticAccess url: agentic-access/northern-powergrid-agentic-access.yml - type: DomainSecurity url: security/northern-powergrid-domain-security.yml - type: Authentication url: authentication/northern-powergrid-authentication.yml - type: OAuthScopes url: scopes/northern-powergrid-scopes.yml - type: Conventions url: conventions/northern-powergrid-conventions.yml - type: Idempotency name: All operations idempotent (read-only, GET-only API) url: conventions/northern-powergrid-conventions.yml - type: ErrorCatalog url: errors/northern-powergrid-problem-types.yml - type: RateLimits url: rate-limits/northern-powergrid-rate-limits.yml - type: Lifecycle url: lifecycle/northern-powergrid-lifecycle.yml - type: Deprecation name: Versioning and deprecation policy (ODS-Explore-API-Deprecation header) url: https://help.huwise.com/apis/ods-explore-v2/#section/Versioning - type: ChangeLog url: changelog/northern-powergrid-changelog.yml - type: Conformance url: conformance/northern-powergrid-conformance.yml - type: DataModel url: data-model/northern-powergrid-data-model.yml - type: Examples url: examples/northern-powergrid-examples.yml - type: Sandbox name: Interactive API console and public example portal url: sandbox/northern-powergrid-sandbox.yml - type: Packages url: packages/northern-powergrid-packages.yml - type: SDKs name: "@opendatasoft/api-client — platform client for the Explore API v2.1" url: packages/northern-powergrid-packages.yml - type: Components url: components/northern-powergrid-components.yml - type: MCPServer name: Candidate MCP tool set derived from the OpenAPI (no server published) url: mcp/northern-powergrid-mcp.yml - type: ToolCrosswalk url: mcp/northern-powergrid-tool-crosswalk.yml - type: AgentSkill url: skills/_index.yml - type: LLMsTxt url: llms/northern-powergrid-llms.txt - type: WellKnown url: well-known/northern-powergrid-well-known.yml - type: SecurityTxt url: well-known/northern-powergrid-security.txt - type: VulnerabilityDisclosure url: security/northern-powergrid-vulnerability-disclosure.yml - type: Security name: security.txt (RFC 9116) on the open data portal host url: https://northernpowergrid.opendatasoft.com/.well-known/security.txt - type: APIReference url: https://help.huwise.com/apis/ods-explore-v2/ - type: GettingStarted url: https://help.huwise.com/apis/ods-explore-v2/#section/Getting-Started - type: Support url: https://northernpowergrid.opendatasoft.com/pages/contactform/ - type: SignUp url: https://northernpowergrid.opendatasoft.com/signup/ - type: Login url: https://northernpowergrid.opendatasoft.com/account/login/ - type: Roadmap name: Open data portal Data Roadmap url: https://northernpowergrid.opendatasoft.com/explore/dataset/data-roadmap/information/ - type: TermsOfService url: https://www.northernpowergrid.com/terms-and-conditions - type: PrivacyPolicy url: https://www.northernpowergrid.com/privacy-policy - type: Website url: https://www.northernpowergrid.com/ - type: Portal url: https://northernpowergrid.opendatasoft.com/ - type: Documentation url: https://northernpowergrid.opendatasoft.com/pages/tutorial_page/ - type: APIConsole url: https://northernpowergrid.opendatasoft.com/api-console/explore/v2.1/ - type: License url: https://northernpowergrid.opendatasoft.com/p/opendatalicence/ - type: Explore url: https://northernpowergrid.opendatasoft.com/explore/ - type: Map url: https://northernpowergrid.opendatasoft.com/map/ - type: Dashboards url: https://northernpowergrid.opendatasoft.com/pages/portal_dashboards/ - type: GitHubOrganization url: https://github.com/northernpowergrid - type: LinkedIn url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/northern-powergrid/ - type: ParentCompany url: https://www.brkenergy.com/our-businesses/northern-powergrid maintainers: - FN: Kin Lane email: kin@apievangelist.com