aid: northern-powergrid url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/northern-powergrid/refs/heads/main/apis.yml name: Northern Powergrid kind: company description: >- Northern Powergrid is the electricity distribution network operator (DNO) for the North East of England, Yorkshire and northern Lincolnshire, owning and running the poles, wires, substations and low-voltage network that deliver power to 4 million homes and businesses across roughly 10,000 square miles. It is a Berkshire Hathaway Energy company and it does not sell electricity — it moves it, so it holds no retail customer accounts and no billing relationship. Its API posture reflects that split exactly: the market and network side is genuinely open, with a live Opendatasoft-hosted open data portal publishing 102 datasets under the Northern Powergrid Open Data Licence v1.0 and a fully documented Explore REST API that answers anonymously at 5,000 requests a day, including live power cut incidents, operational metering, embedded capacity registers, network capacity headroom and aggregated smart meter consumption; the consumer side is empty, because Britain has no energy consumer data right equivalent to the Australian Consumer Data Right and a DNO would not be the obligated party if it did. The open data programme exists because Ofgem's Data Best Practice Guidance is a licence condition under the RIIO-ED2 price control, and unlike many mandates in this sector it is visibly implemented rather than merely claimed. Roughly 44 of the 102 datasets are metadata-visible but records-gated to anonymous callers and require a free self-serve portal registration to read. deliveryModel: model: saas open_source: false commercial: true callable_host: false label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint confidence: medium source: - pricing generated: '2026-08-28' method: derived accessModel: pricing: free onboarding: self-serve trial: false try_now: true public: true label: Free · Anonymous read, free registration for full data confidence: high source: - probe - portal generated: '2026-07-27' method: derived image: https://s3-eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/aws-ec2-eu-central-1-opendatasoft-staticfileset/northernpowergrid/logo?tstamp=1668505636764573 tags: - Energy - United Kingdom - Utilities - Electricity - Grid - Open Data - Distribution Network Operator - Smart Metering - Network Capacity - Flexibility - DER - Renewables created: '2026-07-27' modified: '2026-07-27' specificationVersion: '0.23' apis: - aid: northern-powergrid:northern-powergrid-open-data-search-api-v1 name: Northern Powergrid Open Data Search API v1 description: >- The original Opendatasoft Search API, still live on the portal and still carrying its own interactive console. Confirmed anonymously on 2026-07-27 — GET /api/datasets/1.0/search/?rows=1 returned nhits 102, matching the v2.1 catalog count. No OpenAPI description is published by the platform for this generation of the API, so none was saved and none was written. humanURL: https://northernpowergrid.opendatasoft.com/api/v1/console baseURL: https://northernpowergrid.opendatasoft.com/api/datasets/1.0 tags: - Open Data - Energy - Search - Legacy properties: - type: APIReference url: https://northernpowergrid.opendatasoft.com/api/v1/console - type: Portal url: https://northernpowergrid.opendatasoft.com/ - aid: northern-powergrid:northern-powergrid-catalog-api name: Northern Powergrid Catalog API description: API to enumerate datasets humanURL: https://northernpowergrid.opendatasoft.com/api/explore/v2.1/console baseURL: https://northernpowergrid.opendatasoft.com/api/explore/v2.1 tags: - Catalog properties: - type: OpenAPI url: openapi/northern-powergrid-catalog-api-openapi.yml - type: APIReference url: https://northernpowergrid.opendatasoft.com/api/explore/v2.1/console - type: APIConsole url: https://northernpowergrid.opendatasoft.com/api-console/explore/v2.1/ - type: Portal url: https://northernpowergrid.opendatasoft.com/ - type: Explore url: https://northernpowergrid.opendatasoft.com/explore/ - type: Documentation url: https://northernpowergrid.opendatasoft.com/pages/tutorial_page/ - type: ExternalDocumentation url: https://help.huwise.com/apis/ods-explore-v2/ - type: License url: https://northernpowergrid.opendatasoft.com/p/opendatalicence/ - type: Catalog url: https://northernpowergrid.opendatasoft.com/api/explore/v2.1/catalog/exports/dcat - type: APIReference url: https://northernpowergrid.opendatasoft.com/api/explore/v2.0/console - aid: northern-powergrid:northern-powergrid-dataset-api name: Northern Powergrid Dataset API description: API to work on records humanURL: https://northernpowergrid.opendatasoft.com/api/explore/v2.1/console baseURL: https://northernpowergrid.opendatasoft.com/api/explore/v2.1 tags: - Datasets tags_raw: - Dataset properties: - type: OpenAPI url: openapi/northern-powergrid-dataset-api-openapi.yml - type: APIReference url: https://northernpowergrid.opendatasoft.com/api/explore/v2.1/console - type: APIConsole url: https://northernpowergrid.opendatasoft.com/api-console/explore/v2.1/ - type: Portal url: https://northernpowergrid.opendatasoft.com/ - type: Explore url: https://northernpowergrid.opendatasoft.com/explore/ - type: Documentation url: https://northernpowergrid.opendatasoft.com/pages/tutorial_page/ - type: ExternalDocumentation url: https://help.huwise.com/apis/ods-explore-v2/ - type: License url: https://northernpowergrid.opendatasoft.com/p/opendatalicence/ - type: Catalog url: https://northernpowergrid.opendatasoft.com/api/explore/v2.1/catalog/exports/dcat - type: APIReference url: https://northernpowergrid.opendatasoft.com/api/explore/v2.0/console common: - type: CapabilityMap url: capabilities/northern-powergrid-capability-edges.yml name: Northern Powergrid Business Capability Map - type: Overlay url: overlays/northern-powergrid-open-data-explore-api-v2-1-overlay.yaml - type: Overlay url: overlays/northern-powergrid-open-data-explore-api-v2-0-overlay.yaml - type: AgenticAccess url: agentic-access/northern-powergrid-agentic-access.yml - type: DomainSecurity url: security/northern-powergrid-domain-security.yml - type: Authentication url: authentication/northern-powergrid-authentication.yml - type: OAuthScopes url: scopes/northern-powergrid-scopes.yml - type: Conventions url: conventions/northern-powergrid-conventions.yml - type: Idempotency name: All operations idempotent (read-only, GET-only API) url: conventions/northern-powergrid-conventions.yml - type: ErrorCatalog url: errors/northern-powergrid-problem-types.yml - type: RateLimits url: rate-limits/northern-powergrid-rate-limits.yml - type: Lifecycle url: lifecycle/northern-powergrid-lifecycle.yml - type: Deprecation name: Versioning and deprecation policy (ODS-Explore-API-Deprecation header) url: https://help.huwise.com/apis/ods-explore-v2/#section/Versioning - type: ChangeLog url: changelog/northern-powergrid-changelog.yml - type: Conformance url: conformance/northern-powergrid-conformance.yml - type: DataModel url: data-model/northern-powergrid-data-model.yml - type: Examples url: examples/northern-powergrid-examples.yml - type: Sandbox name: Interactive API console and public example portal url: sandbox/northern-powergrid-sandbox.yml - type: Packages url: packages/northern-powergrid-packages.yml - type: SDKs name: "@opendatasoft/api-client — platform client for the Explore API v2.1" url: packages/northern-powergrid-packages.yml - type: Components url: components/northern-powergrid-components.yml - type: X-MCPServerCandidate name: Candidate MCP tool set derived from the OpenAPI (no server published) url: mcp/northern-powergrid-mcp.yml note: 'Renamed from MCPServer 2026-09-03 (roadmap#247): the manifest self-describes as status: candidate — a tool list derived from the published API contracts, not an existing server. The scorer already read the manifest and reported mcp_server correctly; the MCPServer type was crediting the artifact-type surfaces with a server that does not exist.' - type: ToolCrosswalk url: mcp/northern-powergrid-tool-crosswalk.yml - type: AgentSkill url: skills/_index.yml - type: LLMsTxt url: llms/northern-powergrid-llms.txt - type: WellKnown url: well-known/northern-powergrid-well-known.yml - type: SecurityTxt url: well-known/northern-powergrid-security.txt - type: VulnerabilityDisclosure url: security/northern-powergrid-vulnerability-disclosure.yml - type: Security name: security.txt (RFC 9116) on the open data portal host url: https://northernpowergrid.opendatasoft.com/.well-known/security.txt - type: APIReference url: https://help.huwise.com/apis/ods-explore-v2/ - type: GettingStarted url: https://help.huwise.com/apis/ods-explore-v2/#section/Getting-Started - type: Support url: https://northernpowergrid.opendatasoft.com/pages/contactform/ - type: SignUp url: https://northernpowergrid.opendatasoft.com/signup/ - type: Login url: https://northernpowergrid.opendatasoft.com/account/login/ - type: Roadmap name: Open data portal Data Roadmap url: https://northernpowergrid.opendatasoft.com/explore/dataset/data-roadmap/information/ - type: TermsOfService url: https://www.northernpowergrid.com/terms-and-conditions - type: PrivacyPolicy url: https://www.northernpowergrid.com/privacy-policy - type: Website url: https://www.northernpowergrid.com/ - type: Portal url: https://northernpowergrid.opendatasoft.com/ - type: Documentation url: https://northernpowergrid.opendatasoft.com/pages/tutorial_page/ - type: APIConsole url: https://northernpowergrid.opendatasoft.com/api-console/explore/v2.1/ - type: License url: https://northernpowergrid.opendatasoft.com/p/opendatalicence/ - type: Explore url: https://northernpowergrid.opendatasoft.com/explore/ - type: Map url: https://northernpowergrid.opendatasoft.com/map/ - type: Dashboards url: https://northernpowergrid.opendatasoft.com/pages/portal_dashboards/ - type: GitHubOrganization url: https://github.com/northernpowergrid - type: LinkedIn url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/northern-powergrid/ - type: ParentCompany url: https://www.brkenergy.com/our-businesses/northern-powergrid maintainers: - FN: Kin Lane email: kin@apievangelist.com