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Elexon Insights Solution (BMRS) API
Elexon
- Licence
- Unclear
- Cost
- Check with holder
- Account needed
- Unclear
- Harvestable
- Automated
What it contains
GB balancing and settlement data: half-hourly metered volumes by BM unit and GSP group, system prices, demand outturn, generation by fuel type, and the Balancing Mechanism. GSP-group demand is the finest open near-real-time regional electricity demand in GB.
When you need it
Useful at these project stages, from the working group's stage matrix:
- Matched on
- Annual energy consumption (half hour meter data)
- Assigned by
- Matched to data items the matrix names
Coverage and detail
- Geographic
- Great Britain, by GSP group
- Nations
- England, Scotland, Wales
- Resolution
- Half-hourly, GSP group / BM unit
- Formats
- JSON, CSV, XML
- Update cadence
- Real-time to half-hourly
Access and machine route
- Licence as stated
- Elexon open terms (free, attribution)
- Assertion source
- as published by Elexon
- Protocol
- REST/JSON, OpenAPI-described, no key required for most endpoints
- Endpoint
- https://data.elexon.co.uk/bmrs/api/v1/
- Harvest note
- yes-automated note recorded in the machine_endpoint field: REST OpenAPI at
Caveats
NEW. Electricity only. Data volume is very high - harvest selectively.
Classification
- Category
- Infrastructure & Networks
- Assigned by
- Not yet determined
- Depth domain
- Surface
- Data form
- Time series, Tabular
- Evidence confidence
- Not yet assessed. Only a person can set this.
How current this entry is
- Last updated here
- 2026-09-22
- Last checked against the holder
- 2026-09-07
- Checked by a person
- Not yet. Nobody has read this entry.
- Catalogue id
- elexon-insights-solution-bmrs-api
Open at Elexon
Licence is not clearly stated. Confirm with the holder.
Resolved
A server answered on 2026-09-08 and returned the expected page.
Checked by automated request, not in a browser. A site can answer a script and still fail for a reader, so treat this as a weak signal.
Machine endpoint (JSON, CSV, XML)
Additional link (JSON, CSV, XML)
This record as JSON
Report a problem
Elexon. Elexon Insights Solution (BMRS) API. Accessed via UK Geothermal Data Catalogue, https://catalogue.geothermaluk.org/id/elexon-insights-solution-bmrs-api/. Record elexon-insights-solution-bmrs-api.