UK Geothermal Digital Working Group UK Geothermal Data Catalogue

Catalogue › Demand & Heat Users

NESO Historic Demand Data

NESO

Licence
Unclear
Cost
Check with holder
Account needed
Unclear
Harvestable
Automated

What it contains

Half-hourly GB electricity demand back to 2009: national demand (ND), transmission system demand (TSD), England-Wales demand, interconnector flows, pumped storage pumping, embedded wind and solar estimates.

When you need it

Useful at these project stages, from the working group's stage matrix:

Initial FeasibilityAssessSelectOperate

Matched on
Annual energy consumption (half hour meter data); Load profile
Assigned by
Matched to data items the matrix names

Coverage and detail

Geographic
Great Britain
Nations
England, Scotland, Wales
Resolution
Half-hourly, national
Formats
CSV
Update cadence
Annual file per year, updated within-year

Access and machine route

Licence as stated
NESO Open Data Licence
Assertion source
as published by NESO
Protocol
CKAN + datastore_search_sql
Endpoint
https://api.neso.energy/api/3/action/package_show?id=historic-demand-data
Harvest note
yes-automated

Caveats

National only - no regional heat/electricity split.

Classification

Category
Demand & Heat Users
Sub-category
2.5 Demand profiles & seasonality
Assigned by
Stated by the source
Depth domain
Surface
Technology
Open-loop / ATES
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
neso-historic-demand-data
Open at NESO

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 (CSV) More from NESO This record as JSON Report a problem
NESO. NESO Historic Demand Data. Accessed via UK Geothermal Data Catalogue, https://catalogue.geothermaluk.org/id/neso-historic-demand-data/. Record neso-historic-demand-data.