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.
Real signal across most facets with visible, nameable gaps — the contract exists but is thin, or the portal is good while governance and commercial terms are absent.
API Evangelist profiles Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks the way a machine reads it — 11 machine-readable artifacts across 1 API, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.
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How we profile Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.
APIs 5
Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.
Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.
SSEN Distribution Data Portal API
The public CKAN 2.10.10 Action API behind the SSEN Distribution Data Portal, serving 45 open datasets covering substations, LV feeder smart meter half-hourly usage, the Embedded...
SSEN Power Track Real Time Outage API
Anonymous JSON API behind the SSEN Power Track map, returning planned and unplanned outages on the SSEN Distribution network with fault reference, type, latitude/longitude, esti...
SSEN NeRDA (Near Real-time Data Access) API
Near real-time power flow data from SSEN Distribution's EHV, HV and LV networks, drawn from SCADA PowerOn, LV monitoring equipment, the load model forecasting tool, the connecti...
Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks Catalog API
API to enumerate datasets
Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks Dataset API
API to work on records
Open Collections 1
Open, tool-agnostic collections carry the same runnable value as Postman without locking you to one client — the portable, forkable form of the same exercise.
Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).
Explore API
OPEN COLLECTIONRate Limits 1
Rate limits are the difference between a demo that works and a production integration that doesn't fall over. Publishing them is an operational-transparency signal — and a hard requirement for any agent that plans its own throughput.
Documented rate limits and quota policies.
Ssen Rate Limits
RATE LIMITSSecurity Posture 3
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.
Agentic Access 1
An x-agentic-access contract marks which operations are safe for an agent to run on its own and which need a human in the loop. It is the difference between an API an agent can use and one it can use safely.
Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.
Resources
Every other property we hold for Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.
Get Started 7
Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call
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Documentation 1
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Agent Surfaces 5
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Design & Contract 5
Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events
Access & Security 5
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Learn 1
Tutorials, courses, talks, and written guidance
Operate 4
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 2
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 5
The organization behind the API
Other 1
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
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