Quick Reserve Auction Requirement Forecast

Quick Reserve, separated into Negative Quick Reserve (NQR) and Positive Quick Reserve (PQR), is aimed primarily for reacting to pre-fault disturbances to restore the energy imbalance quickly and return the frequency close to 50.0 Hz.

The service is procured via a daily auction at 14:00 for delivery between 23:00 and 23:00 D+1.

For more details of the service and how to participate see this page: Quick Reserve (https://www.nationalgrideso.com/industry-information/balancing-services/reserve-services/quick-reserve)

This data set contains the daily forecast of requirements for procurement via the Daily Quick Reserve auction, starting with the first auction being held on the 3rd December 2024.

The data set is updated monthly.

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=f012de08-b258-408b-bc41-f885e183f97f&limit=5`
Query example (via SQL statement)
`https://api.neso.energy/api/3/action/datastore_search_sql?sql=SELECT * from "f012de08-b258-408b-bc41-f885e183f97f" LIMIT 5`

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

var data = {
  resource_id: 'f012de08-b258-408b-bc41-f885e183f97f', // 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=f012de08-b258-408b-bc41-f885e183f97f&limit=5'
  fileobj = urllib2.urlopen(url)
  print fileobj.read()

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Table Information

Auction Date

Title	Auction Date
Type	date
Description	The date of the auction event that these requirements apply to
Comment
Example	2024-11-01
Unit

Service Delivery Date

Title	Service Delivery Date
Type	date
Description	The service day for delivery of the service
Comment	Please Note that service window 1 starts at 23:00 D-1 with regards to service date
Example	2024-11-01
Unit

Service Window

Title	Service Window
Type	string
Description	Service window identifier
Comment	Please note this is not the same as Settlement Period. The first service window, window 1 starts on 23:00 Service date-1. For GMT to BST clock change service window 7x and 8x are the repeated hour. For BST to GMT clock change day there is no service window 5 or 6
Example	7x
Unit

Service window Start Time

Title	Service Window Start Time
Type	datetime
Description	Start time and date of service window
Comment	Time given in local time
Example	2024-10-31T23:00:00
Unit

Service Window End Time

Title	Service Window End Time
Type	datetime
Description	End time and date of service window
Comment	Time given in local time
Example	2024-11-01T23:29:59
Unit

Positive Quick Reserve Requirement MW

Title	Positive Quick Reserve Requirement MW
Type	integer
Description	Requirement for Positive Quick Reserve
Comment
Example	500
Unit	MW

Negative Quick Reserve Requirement MW

Title	Negative Quick Reserve Requirement MW
Type	integer
Description	Requirement for Negative Quick Reserve
Comment
Example	300
Unit	MW

Forecast produced on

Title	Forecast Produced on
Type	date
Description	Date that the forecast was produce
Comment
Example	2024-10-01
Unit

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Quick Reserve Auction Requirement Forecast

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Table Information

Auction Date

Service Delivery Date

Service Window

Service window Start Time

Service Window End Time

Positive Quick Reserve Requirement MW

Negative Quick Reserve Requirement MW

Forecast produced on