Unit Bid/Offer Volumes
About
The Unit Bid/Offer Volumes chart replicates the Unit Bid/Offer Prices chart but plotting monthly balancing volumes at a single unit or filter group rather than prices.
Included Data
The data on this chart is the Accepted (or Declared) Bid/Offer Volume data, which represents the
volume of 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 Volumes data can be extracted from the API
to extract on a monthly basis the volumes for bid and offer
actions. The parameters used as follows:
| Code |
Required/Optional |
Description |
| chart |
Required |
unitsbovol |
| 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)
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Examples :
https://enbm.netareports.com/dataService?username=xxx&password=xxx&format=xml&action=data&chart=unitsbovol&filter=fuel&fuel=all&bmunitid=T_ABTH7&accdecl=0
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