Constraint Management Intertrip Arming 2022-2023

The arming report provides information on when units contracted by the ESO have been armed to their relevant intertrip scheme to manage constraints on the network. Indicative cost information is also provided to inform on the cost of any arming that is carried out.

NOTE: As part of our ongoing efforts to align with data management best practices and improve consistency across datasets, the below column ids for this datafile will be updated on 14th October 2026 as follows:
Cost for this utilisation (£) → Cost for this utilisation
Current Arming Fee (£ / SP) → Current Arming Fee

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.neso.energy/api/3/action/datastore_search`
Query (via SQL)
`https://api.neso.energy/api/3/action/datastore_search_sql`

Query example (first 5 results)
`https://api.neso.energy/api/3/action/datastore_search?resource_id=60b4055c-d87e-4ebe-8d21-e023f506e461&limit=5`
Query example (via SQL statement)
`https://api.neso.energy/api/3/action/datastore_search_sql?sql=SELECT * from "60b4055c-d87e-4ebe-8d21-e023f506e461" LIMIT 5`

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

var data = {
  resource_id: '60b4055c-d87e-4ebe-8d21-e023f506e461', // 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=60b4055c-d87e-4ebe-8d21-e023f506e461&limit=5'
  fileobj = urllib2.urlopen(url)
  print fileobj.read()

Download (CSV)

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Table Information

BMU ID

Title	BMU ID
Type	string
Description	Identifier of the unit that the information relates to
Comment	BMU ID as registered with ESO
Example	UNIT-1
Unit

Arming Date Time

Title	Arming Date Time
Type	datetime
Description	The date time that the unit was armed to the intertrip from.
Comment
Example	2023-07-11T00:00:00+00:00
Unit

Disarming Date Time

Title	Disarming Date Time
Type	datetime
Description	The date time that the unit was armed to the intertrip until.
Comment
Example	2023-07-11T14:30:00+00:00
Unit

Current Arming Fee

Title	Current Arming Fee (£/SP)
Type	number
Description	The arming fee rate (in £/SP) of the units that was armed.
Comment
Example	123.45
Unit	£/SP

Cost for this utilisation

Title	Cost for this utilisation (£)
Type	number
Description	The amount due to the unit for the duration of being armed.
Comment	This considers the arming fee and the duration of arming. Calculation for amount is Arming Fee (£/SP) / 30 mins * duration of arming in minutes.
Example	3,580.05
Unit	£

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Constraint Management Intertrip Arming 2022-2023

CKAN Data API

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Table Information

BMU ID

Arming Date Time

Disarming Date Time

Current Arming Fee

Cost for this utilisation