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NESO Data Portal

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NESO CKAN/DataStore datasets for GB grid and market analytics.

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What you can ask

  • “What does NESO Data Portal have for the area or asset I'm working on?”
  • “Pull the most recent NESO Data Portal records and put them in a table.”
  • “What does NESO Data Portal cover, and how fresh is the data?”

About this source

NESO Data Portal — National Energy System Operator datasets for Great Britain including demand forecasts, generation capacity, interconnector flows, and grid stability reports.

Connector ID neso

Provenance

PublisherNESO Data Portal
Sourcehttps://www.neso.energy/data-portal
API basehttps://api.neso.energy/api/3/action
Docshttps://api.neso.energy/api/3/action/help_show

Freshness & coverage

FreshnessScheduled — Publication cadence varies by package and resource; package metadata exposes provider modification timestamps.
GeographicGreat Britain
Temporal… → present — Coverage varies by package and resource.
AuthenticationNo credentials required

Caveats

  • ⚠ Package metadata and datastore rows use CKAN resource identifiers; call packageShow to discover a package’s current resources.
  • ⚠ Only datastore-active resources can be queried with datastoreSearch.

› Methods (9)

Technical detail for developers: parameters, pagination, units, and freshness per method.

  • listPackages

    read

    Discover NESO CKAN packages by keyword and return bounded package/resource metadata.

    Entitiesdata-package, data-resource
    Paginationoffset (offsetField: offset, limitField: limit)
    FreshnessScheduled

  • packageShow

    unknown

    Get one exact NESO package and its current resources by CKAN package id or slug.

    Required paramsid
    Entitiesdata-package, data-resource
    Paginationnone
    FreshnessScheduled

  • datastoreSearch

    read

    Read a bounded page from one datastore-active NESO resource using exact field/value filters.

    Required paramsresourceId
    Entitiesdataset-record
    Paginationoffset (offsetField: offset, limitField: limit)
    FreshnessScheduled

  • organizationList

    read

    List NESO Data Groups through the officially supported CKAN organization_list action.

    FreshnessScheduled (source-level)

  • packageList

    read

    List all NESO dataset identifiers through the officially supported CKAN package_list action.

    FreshnessScheduled (source-level)

  • tagList

    read

    List NESO Data Portal tags through the officially supported CKAN tag_list action.

    FreshnessScheduled (source-level)

  • resourceSearch

    read

    Search NESO resources with a CKAN field:value expression such as name:wind or format:csv.

    Required paramsquery
    Paginationoffset (offsetField: offset, limitField: limit)
    FreshnessScheduled (source-level)

  • resourceShow

    unknown

    Get exact NESO resource metadata through the officially supported CKAN resource_show action.

    Required paramsid
    FreshnessScheduled (source-level)

  • datastoreSearchSql

    read

    Run one read-only SELECT through NESO’s officially supported datastore_search_sql action.

    Required paramssql
    FreshnessScheduled (source-level)