Non-BM Reserve Availability MW and Utilisation Price

This Data File contains Non-BM Quick Reserve Availability MW and Utilisation Price data declared by Service Providers, once declarations have been accepted and validated by OBP system by gate closure. This information is continuously published throughout the day on this platform. Non-BM Slow Reserve Service Availability MW and Utilisation Price will be added to this Data File when the service goes live.

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=6bfe7df0-60aa-462d-94cd-44ac0a4abb2c&limit=5`
Query example (via SQL statement)
`https://api.neso.energy/api/3/action/datastore_search_sql?sql=SELECT * from "6bfe7df0-60aa-462d-94cd-44ac0a4abb2c" LIMIT 5`

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

var data = {
  resource_id: '6bfe7df0-60aa-462d-94cd-44ac0a4abb2c', // 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=6bfe7df0-60aa-462d-94cd-44ac0a4abb2c&limit=5'
  fileobj = urllib2.urlopen(url)
  print fileobj.read()

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Table Information

Data

Title	Data
Type	string
Description	Type of data
Comment	Fixed value "AV"
Example	AV
Unit	N/A

Unit ID

Title	Unit ID
Type	string
Description	Registered Unit ID associated with the corresponding instruction.
Comment
Example	ABERU-1
Unit	N/A

Time From

Title	Time From
Type	datetime
Description	Window Start Datetime
Comment
Example	2025-11-25T05:00:00Z
Unit	UTC

Time To

Title	Time To
Type	datetime
Description	Window End Datetime
Comment
Example	2025-11-25T05:30:00Z
Unit	UTC

Pair ID

Title	Pair ID
Type	number
Description	Band specifying the MW and Price
Comment	For positive service, pair would be +1; for negative, it would be -1
Example	+1, -1
Unit	N/A

Availability Power

Title	Availability Power
Type	number
Description	MW available for the service at Gate Closure for the Time From/To Period
Comment
Example	50
Unit	MW

Utilisation Price

Title	Utilisation Price
Type	number
Description	Utilisation Price available for the service at Gate Closure for the Time From/To Period
Comment
Example	30
Unit	£/MWh

Service ID

Title	Service ID
Type	string
Description	Name of NBM service associated with the corresponding instruction.
Comment
Example	PQR, NQR
Unit	N/A

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Non-BM Reserve Availability MW and Utilisation Price

CKAN Data API

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Table Information

Data

Unit ID

Time From

Time To

Pair ID

Availability Power

Utilisation Price

Service ID