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Balancing Price Spreads

About

This chart shows the half-hourly maximum and miniumum prices accepted via the Balancing Mechanism by fuel type over time. Note that when zoomed out the values will be averaged over time.

Included Data

The data on this chart is the Accepted Bid and Accepted Offer Price for units that have had activations accepted via the Balancing Mechanism.

Data Service

The Balancing Price Spreads data can be extracted from the API to get aggregated offer volume totals based upon a set of tags that can be extracted from the browser URL of the Bid Volumes Summary chart during normal viewing. The parameters used as follows:

Code Required/Optional Description
chart Required balspreads
startdatetime Required The start date time in format YYYYMMDDHHMMSS.
enddatetime Required The end date time in format YYYYMMDDHHMMSS.
resolution Required The type of resolution. (See 'resolutions' action, e.g. hh)
format Required The type of format. The value could be xml or csv . (See 'formats' action)

Examples :

https://enbm.netareports.com/dataService?username=xxx&password=xxx&format=xml&action=data&chart=balspreads&startdatetime=20190520000000&enddatetime=20190527000000&resolution=hh