Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks
Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks (SSEN) is the SSE plc electricity networks business in the United Kingdom, operating the poles-and-wires layer rather than selling energy. SSEN Distribution is the licensed Distribution Network Operator for two GB licence areas — Scottish Hydro Electric Power Distribution (SHEPD) in the north of Scotland and Southern Electric Power Distribution (SEPD) in central southern England — serving over 3.9 million homes and businesses, while SSEN Transmission owns and operates the high-voltage transmission system for the north of Scotland. Its API posture is the classic network-distributor split — grid and market data are genuinely open, consumer data is not offered at all. SSEN runs a CKAN open data portal whose anonymous Action API serves 45 datasets, an anonymous real-time outage API behind Power Track, a key-gated near-real-time power-flow API (NeRDA) covering EHV/HV/LV networks, and an Opendatasoft Explore API over 60 transmission datasets. There is no consumer data-portability mandate in Great Britain equivalent to the Australian Consumer Data Right or Ontario's Green Button regulation, and SSEN publishes no API through which a third party can obtain an individual customer's usage or billing data. What Britain mandated instead is infrastructure and disclosure — smart meter traffic runs through the licensed Smart DCC monopoly, and Ofgem's Data Best Practice licence condition under RIIO-ED2 obliges network licensees to treat data assets as Presumed Open subject to Open Data Triage. SSEN implements that obligation visibly — it became the first DNO to publish full smart meter half-hourly consumption data, aggregated to no fewer than five properties per LV feeder, and attaches published Open Data Triage records to its datasets.
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