Reactive Utilisation Data - Apr-2020 - Oct-2024

Reactive power utilisation figures per Balancing Mechanism Unit per month. Lag and lead are separated out to show the volume of reactive absorption and generation per unit per month. This file is updated during the middle of each month, and holds data up until 2 months ago, e.g. in December 2019 there is data up until October 2019.

Default/Market - D means this reactive power provision was obtained via ORPS, while M would mean it was obtained through Enhanced Reactive Power Service (ERPS).

Location - A letter to denote where the unit is located (S = South, N = North, SC = Scotland, M = Midlands)

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=a61c6c26-62ec-41e1-ae25-ed95f4562274&limit=5`
Query example (via SQL statement)
`https://api.neso.energy/api/3/action/datastore_search_sql?sql=SELECT * from "a61c6c26-62ec-41e1-ae25-ed95f4562274" LIMIT 5`

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

var data = {
  resource_id: 'a61c6c26-62ec-41e1-ae25-ed95f4562274', // 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=a61c6c26-62ec-41e1-ae25-ed95f4562274&limit=5'
  fileobj = urllib2.urlopen(url)
  print fileobj.read()

Download (CSV)

Data Explorer

Table Information

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Company

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Default/Market

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Apr 20 -LEAD

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Apr 20 - LAG

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Apr 20 - TOTAL

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May 20 -LEAD

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May 20 - LAG

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May 20 - TOTAL

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Jun 20 -LEAD

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Jun 20 - LAG

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Jun 20 - TOTAL

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Jul 20 -LEAD

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Jul 20 - LAG

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Jul 20 - TOTAL

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Aug 20 -LEAD

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Aug 20 - LAG

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Aug 20 - TOTAL

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Sep 20 -LEAD

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Sep 20 - LAG

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Sep 20 - TOTAL

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Oct 20 -LEAD

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Oct 20 - LAG

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Oct 20 - TOTAL

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Nov 20 -LEAD

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Nov 20 - LAG

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Nov 20 - TOTAL

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Dec 20 -LEAD

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Dec 20 - LAG

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Dec 20 - TOTAL

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Jan 21 -LEAD

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Jan 21 - LAG

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Mar 21 -LEAD

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Mar 21 - LAG

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Apr 21 -LEAD

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May 21 -LEAD

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May 21 - LAG

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Jun 21 -LEAD

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Jun 21 - LAG

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Jun 21 - TOTAL

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Nov 21 -LEAD

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Dec 21 - Total

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Jan 22 - LEAD

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Aug 22 - Total

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Reactive Utilisation Data - Apr-2020 - Oct-2024

CKAN Data API

Data Explorer

Data Explorer

Table Information

id

Company

Unit

Default/Market

Location

Apr 20 -LEAD

Apr 20 - LAG

Apr 20 - TOTAL

May 20 -LEAD

May 20 - LAG

May 20 - TOTAL

Jun 20 -LEAD

Jun 20 - LAG

Jun 20 - TOTAL

Jul 20 -LEAD

Jul 20 - LAG

Jul 20 - TOTAL

Aug 20 -LEAD

Aug 20 - LAG

Aug 20 - TOTAL

Sep 20 -LEAD

Sep 20 - LAG

Sep 20 - TOTAL

Oct 20 -LEAD

Oct 20 - LAG

Oct 20 - TOTAL

Nov 20 -LEAD

Nov 20 - LAG

Nov 20 - TOTAL

Dec 20 -LEAD

Dec 20 - LAG

Dec 20 - TOTAL

Jan 21 -LEAD

Jan 21 - LAG

Jan 21 - TOTAL

Feb 21 -LEAD

Feb 21 - LAG

Feb 21 - TOTAL

Mar 21 -LEAD

Mar 21 - LAG

Mar 21 - TOTAL

Apr 21 -LEAD

Apr 21 - LAG

Apr 21 - TOTAL

May 21 -LEAD

May 21 - LAG

May 21 - TOTAL

Jun 21 -LEAD

Jun 21 - LAG

Jun 21 - TOTAL

Jul 21 -LEAD

Jul 21 - LAG

Jul 21 - TOTAL

Aug 21 -LEAD

Aug 21 - LAG

Aug 21 - TOTAL

Sep 21 -LEAD

Sep 21 - LAG

Sep 21 - TOTAL

Oct 21 -LEAD

Oct 21 - LAG

Oct 21 - TOTAL

Nov 21 -LEAD

Nov 21 - LAG

Nov 21 - TOTAL

Dec 21 - LEAD

Dec 21 - LAG

Dec 21 - Total

Jan 22 - LEAD

Jan 22 - LAG

Jan 22 - Total

Feb 22 - LEAD

Feb 22 - LAG

Feb 22 - Total