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Unit Bid/Offer Prices

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The Unit Bid/Offer Prices chart shows the range of bid and offer prices that have been noted at a given unit in the market at a monthly resolution. For instance, the following chart shows this activity at Eggborough unit 4:

Included Data

The data on this chart is the Accepted (or Declared) Bid/Offer Price data, which represents the price in £/MWh of any actions taken (or available to be taken) by National Grid to reduce/increase generation via the Balancing Mechanism within gate-closure.

Data Service

The Unit Bid/Offer Prices data can be extracted from the API to extract on a monthly basis the minimum, average and maximum prices for bid and offer actions. The parameters used as follows:

Code Required/Optional Description
chart Required unitsboprice
filter Optional The group to show data for, e.g. filter=fuel&fuel=coal. This defaults to no filter and is as in the browser URL when picking options in the chart normally.
bmunitid Optional The is the unit id and can be found in the Browser URL. For instance bmunitid=T_ABTH7.
accdecl Optional Whether to go accepted (0) or declared (1) and is as in the browser URL when picking options in the chart normally. Defaults to accdecl=0 (Accepted)
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=unitsboprice&filter=fuel&fuel=all&bmunitid=T_ABTH7&accdecl=0