2 Day Ahead Demand Forecast
Publication frequency: daily.
Publication time: between 16:15 and 17:00 (clock time).
This is our 2 days ahead national demand forecast. National Demand is the Great Britain generation requirement and is the sum of metered generation based on National Grid'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 example (first 5 results) |
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https://api.neso.energy/api/3/action/datastore_search?resource_id=cda26f27-4bb6-4632-9fb5-2d029ca605e1&limit=5
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Query example (via SQL statement) |
https://api.neso.energy/api/3/action/datastore_search_sql?sql=SELECT * from "cda26f27-4bb6-4632-9fb5-2d029ca605e1" LIMIT 5
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A simple ajax (JSONP) request to the data API using jQuery.
var data = { resource_id: 'cda26f27-4bb6-4632-9fb5-2d029ca605e1', // the resource id limit: 5 // get 5 results }; $.ajax({ url: 'https://api.neso.energy/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.neso.energy/api/3/action/datastore_search?resource_id=cda26f27-4bb6-4632-9fb5-2d029ca605e1&limit=5' fileobj = urllib2.urlopen(url) print fileobj.read()
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Table Information
DAYSAHEAD
Title | Two Day Ahead Demand Forecast |
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Type | integer |
Description | Unique number describing what day the demand forecast is for i .e. "2" for 2 Day Ahead forecast. |
Comment | |
Example | |
Unit | 1 |
TARGETDATE
Title | Forecast Date |
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Type | date |
Description | The date the demand forecast is for i.e. D+2 for 2 Day Ahead. |
Comment | |
Example | 20200325 |
Unit |
FORECASTDEMAND
Title | Demand Forecast |
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Type | integer |
Description | National 2 day ahead demand forecast values. |
Comment | |
Example | 24146 |
Unit | MW |
CARDINALPOINT
Title | Cardinal Point (CP) |
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Type | string |
Description | Electricity demand fluctuates during a day depending on how much energy people, businesses and industries are using at that moment in time. As this electricity demand goes up and down we get characteristic peaks and troughs, with some of these peaks and troughs appearing every single day at similar times. These we call cardinal points and are the points during the day that we forecast demand for. |
Comment | |
Example | DP |
Unit |
CP_TYPE
Title | Cardinal Point (CP) Type |
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Type | string |
Description | Fixed, Trough, Peak , Cardinal point (CP) can either be Fixed i.e occur at a fix time during the day, Trough i.e. minimum demands during the day or Peak i.e maximum demands during the day. |
Comment | |
Example | P |
Unit |
CP_ST_TIME
Title | Cardinal Point (CP) Standard Time |
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Type | integer |
Description | Time UTC , the time when a particular cardinal point (CP) starts during the day. |
Comment | |
Example | 1700 |
Unit |
CP_END_TIME
Title | Cardinal Point (CP) End Time |
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Type | integer |
Description | Time UTC , The time when a particular cardinal point (CP) ends during the day. |
Comment | |
Example | |
Unit | 1930 |
F_Point
Title | Forecasting Point |
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Type | string |
Description | Forecasts of forecasting points , publishing forecasts of forecasting points: overnight demand minimum, daytime demand maximum, daytime demand minimum and evening demand maximum. |
Comment | Forecasting point 1: Overnight minimum (OM): minimum national demand between half hour ending 00:30 and 07:30. Forecasting point 2: Daytime peak (DM): maximum national demand between half hour ending 08:00 and 13:00. Forecasting point 3: Daytime minimum (Dm): minimum national demand between half hour ending 13:30 and 16:30. Forecasting point 4: Evening peak (EM): maximum national demand between half hour ending 17:00 and 24:00. |
Example | C |
Unit |