Monthly Balancing Services summary (MBSS)

The MBSS gives the costs and volumes of balancing services used by the ESO.
These costs are broken into individual months in the past financial year, as well as by each individual service. The most recent month is based on preliminary figures, which are subject to change once updated information becomes available. These changes will be evident in the datasets of future months. Alongside the data files are the PDF reports of the data, giving some extra insight and analysis.

Note: we have withdrawn the monthly Balancing Services summary 2022/23 report for March 2023, due to some data errors. It will be available on the portal once the issue is resolved. Apologies for any inconvenience.

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Monthly Balancing Services Summary (MBSS) Jan-2024 XLSX 2 weeks ago Download (XLSX) view
Monthly Balancing Services Summary (MBSS) Jan-2024 PDF 2 weeks ago Download (PDF) view
Monthly Balancing Services Summary (MBSS) Dec-2023 PDF 3 weeks ago Download (PDF) view
Monthly Balancing Services Summary (MBSS) Dec-2023 XLSX 3 weeks ago Download (XLSX) view
Monthly Balancing Services Summary (MBSS) Nov-2023 XLSX 2 months ago Download (XLSX) view
Monthly Balancing Services Summary (MBSS) Nov-2023 PDF 2 months ago Download (PDF) view
Monthly Balancing Services Summary (MBSS) Oct-2023 XLSX 3 months ago Download (XLSX) view
Monthly Balancing Services Summary (MBSS) Oct-2023 PDF 3 months ago Download (PDF) view
Monthly Balancing Services Summary (MBSS) Sep-2023 PDF 4 months ago Download (PDF) view
Monthly Balancing Services Summary (MBSS) Sep-2023 XLSX 4 months ago Download (XLSX) view

Additional Information

Field Value
Creator National Grid Electricity System Operator
Date Created November 13, 2019 at 1:37 PM (UTC+00:00)
Source National Grid Electricity System Operator
Rights National Grid ESO Open Data Licence
Update Frequency Monthly

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# Get a list of dataset's resources

curl -L -s https://api.nationalgrideso.com/api/3/action/datapackage_show?id=mbss | grep path

# Get resources

curl -L https://api.nationalgrideso.com/dataset/f89a12fc-94ef-4a09-bce2-c094c7212e1f/resource/0573f632-5f3a-4d9b-94ad-64a27167c9b6/download/mbss-data-january-2024.xlsx

curl -L https://api.nationalgrideso.com/dataset/f89a12fc-94ef-4a09-bce2-c094c7212e1f/resource/0032fd4c-ff09-45d2-bc03-b1c3043c6f93/download/mbss-january-2024.pdf

curl -L https://api.nationalgrideso.com/dataset/f89a12fc-94ef-4a09-bce2-c094c7212e1f/resource/2aeaa216-0e6c-4e75-92d1-8c99c0e07317/download/mbss-december-2023.pdf

curl -L https://api.nationalgrideso.com/dataset/f89a12fc-94ef-4a09-bce2-c094c7212e1f/resource/de44c9a5-6466-4104-9670-7e0201d2a7a0/download/mbss-data-december-2023.xlsx

curl -L https://api.nationalgrideso.com/dataset/f89a12fc-94ef-4a09-bce2-c094c7212e1f/resource/5e22f004-105f-4041-a25e-2a613aada2c2/download/mbss-data-november-2023.xlsx

curl -L https://api.nationalgrideso.com/dataset/f89a12fc-94ef-4a09-bce2-c094c7212e1f/resource/981883e1-12d2-45d9-a7ee-4ae6f3cb8c4d/download/mbss-november-2023.pdf

curl -L https://api.nationalgrideso.com/dataset/f89a12fc-94ef-4a09-bce2-c094c7212e1f/resource/bea2cdb6-40e3-4ead-a0d4-04b1b7e7787f/download/mbss-data-october-2023.xlsx

curl -L https://api.nationalgrideso.com/dataset/f89a12fc-94ef-4a09-bce2-c094c7212e1f/resource/37b5942e-bb2b-409e-ac75-160e335ad59d/download/mbss-oct-2023.pdf

curl -L https://api.nationalgrideso.com/dataset/f89a12fc-94ef-4a09-bce2-c094c7212e1f/resource/84da1b50-fb5f-48e3-9fa4-8542dcf3600a/download/mbss-sept-2023.pdf

curl -L https://api.nationalgrideso.com/dataset/f89a12fc-94ef-4a09-bce2-c094c7212e1f/resource/c6e6d056-2aa8-4e40-94d6-a63768bff44b/download/mbss-data-machine-sept-2023.xlsx

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