aid: scottishpower url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/scottishpower/refs/heads/main/apis.yml name: ScottishPower kind: company image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg tags: - Energy - United Kingdom - Utilities - Electricity - Gas - Energy Retailer - Smart Metering - Grid - Open Data - Distribution Network Operator - Renewables - Energy Markets created: '2026-07-27' modified: '2026-07-27' specificationVersion: '0.19' description: >- ScottishPower (Scottish Power Limited, Glasgow) is one of the "Big Six" British energy companies and has been wholly owned by Spain's Iberdrola since 2007. It is unusual in the post-liberalisation UK market for still spanning three regulated roles at once: ScottishPower Energy Retail supplies electricity and gas to millions of British homes and businesses; SP Energy Networks is the licensed distribution network operator for central and southern Scotland (SP Distribution), Merseyside, Cheshire and North Wales (SP Manweb), plus the transmission owner for southern Scotland (SP Transmission); and ScottishPower Renewables develops and operates onshore and offshore wind. That structure produces the sharpest possible version of this sector's split, and the split is the finding. On the consumer side there is nothing — Britain has no Consumer Data Right, no Green Button mandate and no consumer energy data-portability obligation of any kind, and ScottishPower publishes no developer portal, no self-serve API programme and no documented way for a third party to obtain an individual customer's usage or billing data. developer.scottishpower.co.uk, developers.scottishpower.co.uk, data.scottishpower.co.uk and docs.scottishpower.co.uk do not resolve at all, api.scottishpower.co.uk exists in DNS but returns HTTP 403, and www.scottishpower.co.uk returns HTTP 403 to every anonymous client on every path including /robots.txt. The only public account of ScottishPower's API programme is a WSO2 customer story describing an API Manager deployment used to expose services to commercial partners — an internal, partner-gated estate, not a developer programme. On the network side the picture inverts completely. Ofgem's Data Best Practice Guidance, made a licence condition under the RIIO-ED2 price control (Special Licence Condition 9.5), obliges electricity network licensees to treat their data as "presumed open", and SP Energy Networks has actually built that: the SP Energy Networks Open Data Portal at spenergynetworks.opendatasoft.com serves 150 datasets — embedded capacity register, network flow, historic substation demand, LV monitoring, smart-meter penetration, generation heat maps, flexibility and connections data — through a live, fully anonymous Opendatasoft Explore API v2.1 with a real OpenAPI 3.0.3 contract, CORS wide open, a 5,000 request/day anonymous quota, a DCAT-AP catalogue export, and an SP Energy Networks Open Data Licence based on Creative Commons Attribution 4.0. Britain mandated the infrastructure and the network data, not the data right — ScottishPower is the proof. Its smart-meter obligation runs through the Smart DCC and the Smart Energy Code, which is an infrastructure monopoly for licensed parties rather than a consumer data right, and no public register entry or endpoint for that obligation could be verified from outside. apis: - aid: scottishpower:spen-open-data-explore-api name: SP Energy Networks Open Data Explore API description: >- The live, anonymous REST API behind the SP Energy Networks Open Data Portal — ScottishPower's regulated distribution and transmission arm publishing its network data under Ofgem's Data Best Practice "presumed open" licence condition. Implements the Opendatasoft Explore API v2.1 contract (OpenAPI 3.0.3, 16 paths) over a catalogue of 150 datasets covering the embedded capacity register, network flow, historic substation demand curves, LV monitoring, smart-meter penetration by transformer, secondary substations, generation heat maps, connections insight and per-dataset data-quality scores. Verified on 2026-07-27 with no API key and no account: GET /catalog/datasets returned HTTP 200 with total_count 150, access-control-allow-origin "*", and x-ratelimit-limit 5000 with x-ratelimit-remaining 4990 resetting daily. Records, facets, attachments and exports (CSV, Parquet, GPX, DCAT-AP RDF/XML) are all served from the same base URL. An optional apikey query parameter, obtainable from a free self-serve portal account, raises quotas; none is required for public datasets. Data is published under the SP Energy Networks Open Data Licence, which the portal states is based on the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public Licence. humanURL: https://spenergynetworks.opendatasoft.com/api/explore/v2.1/console baseURL: https://spenergynetworks.opendatasoft.com/api/explore/v2.1 tags: - Open Data - Energy - Electricity - Grid - Distribution Network Operator - Embedded Capacity Register - Smart Metering - Flexibility - United Kingdom properties: - type: OpenAPI url: openapi/scottishpower-spen-open-data-explore-api-openapi.json - type: Overlay url: overlays/scottishpower-spen-open-data-explore-api-overlay.yaml - type: APIReference url: https://spenergynetworks.opendatasoft.com/api/explore/v2.1/console - type: Documentation url: https://help.opendatasoft.com/apis/ods-explore-v2/ - type: Documentation url: https://spenergynetworks.opendatasoft.com/pages/support-help-main/ - type: GettingStarted url: https://spenergynetworks.opendatasoft.com/explore/ - type: Licensing url: https://spenergynetworks.opendatasoft.com/p/sp-energy-networks-open-data-licence/ - type: TermsOfService url: https://spenergynetworks.opendatasoft.com/terms/ - type: Glossary url: https://spenergynetworks.opendatasoft.com/glossary/ - aid: scottishpower:spen-open-data-search-api-v1 name: SP Energy Networks Open Data Search API (v1.0) description: >- The legacy Opendatasoft Search API v1.0 still served alongside Explore v2.1 on the SP Energy Networks Open Data Portal. Verified anonymously on 2026-07-27: GET /api/datasets/1.0/search/?rows=1 returned HTTP 200 with nhits 150, matching the v2.1 catalogue exactly. Recorded because it is live and callable without credentials, but it is superseded — new integrations should use the Explore v2.1 contract above. No first-party OpenAPI is published for this version by SP Energy Networks; the contract is Opendatasoft's. humanURL: https://help.opendatasoft.com/apis/ods-search-v1/ baseURL: https://spenergynetworks.opendatasoft.com/api/datasets/1.0 tags: - Open Data - Search - Energy - Legacy - United Kingdom properties: - type: Documentation url: https://help.opendatasoft.com/apis/ods-search-v1/ - type: APIReference url: https://spenergynetworks.opendatasoft.com/api/datasets/1.0/search/ - type: Licensing url: https://spenergynetworks.opendatasoft.com/p/sp-energy-networks-open-data-licence/ common: - type: VulnerabilityDisclosure url: security/scottishpower-vulnerability-disclosure.yml - type: Security name: RFC 9116 security.txt served on the API host (Opendatasoft platform contact) url: https://spenergynetworks.opendatasoft.com/.well-known/security.txt - type: DomainSecurity url: security/scottishpower-domain-security.yml - type: Authentication url: authentication/scottishpower-authentication.yml - type: WellKnown url: well-known/scottishpower-well-known.yml - type: SecurityTxt url: well-known/scottishpower-security.txt - type: Conventions url: conventions/scottishpower-conventions.yml - type: Idempotency name: Read-only contract — GET only, so every operation is safe and idempotent url: conventions/scottishpower-conventions.yml - type: ErrorCatalog url: errors/scottishpower-problem-types.yml - type: RateLimits url: rate-limits/scottishpower-rate-limits.yml - type: Lifecycle url: lifecycle/scottishpower-lifecycle.yml - type: Deprecation name: Versioning and deprecation policy (ODS-Explore-API-Deprecation header) url: https://help.opendatasoft.com/apis/ods-explore-v2/ - type: ChangeLog url: changelog/scottishpower-changelog.yml - type: Conformance url: conformance/scottishpower-conformance.yml - type: DataModel url: data-model/scottishpower-data-model.yml - type: Examples url: examples/_index.yml - type: Packages url: packages/scottishpower-packages.yml - type: Components url: components/scottishpower-components.yml - type: MCPServer name: Candidate MCP tool surface derived from the OpenAPI (no provider-operated server) url: mcp/scottishpower-mcp.yml - type: ToolCrosswalk url: mcp/scottishpower-tool-crosswalk.yml - type: AgentSkill url: skills/_index.yml - type: LLMsTxt url: llms/scottishpower-llms.txt - type: DeveloperPortal url: https://spenergynetworks.opendatasoft.com/ - type: APIReference url: https://spenergynetworks.opendatasoft.com/api/explore/v2.1/console - type: GettingStarted url: https://spenergynetworks.opendatasoft.com/explore/ - type: SignUp url: https://spenergynetworks.opendatasoft.com/signup/ - type: Login url: https://spenergynetworks.opendatasoft.com/login/ - type: Website url: https://www.scottishpower.co.uk/ - type: Website url: https://www.spenergynetworks.co.uk/ - type: PortalHome url: https://spenergynetworks.opendatasoft.com/ - type: Documentation url: https://www.spenergynetworks.co.uk/pages/energy_data_hub.aspx - type: Licensing url: https://spenergynetworks.opendatasoft.com/p/sp-energy-networks-open-data-licence/ - type: Licensing url: https://spenergynetworks.opendatasoft.com/p/sp-energy-networks-shared-data-licence/ - type: TermsOfService url: https://spenergynetworks.opendatasoft.com/terms/terms-and-conditions/ - type: PrivacyPolicy url: https://spenergynetworks.opendatasoft.com/terms/privacy-policy/ - type: Support url: https://spenergynetworks.opendatasoft.com/pages/support-help-main/ - type: Forum url: https://community.scottishpower.co.uk/ - type: FAQ url: https://spenergynetworks.opendatasoft.com/p/faq/ maintainers: - FN: Kin Lane email: kin@apievangelist.com