NIA SSEN 0070 Near Real-time Data Access 2 (NeRDA 2)

Key Activities

The NeRDA 2 project will expand the geographical scope of the previous NeRDA project (https://smarter.energynetworks.org/projects/nia_ssen_0050) to engage with more stakeholders and understand the value in sharing real-time network data. As well as providing real-time data, NeRDA 2 will provide static data sets through the Application Protocol Interface (API), such as capacity and network configuration. In addition, improvements will be made to the dashboard to make it easier for users to interact with the real-time data and improve their understanding of the level of granularity that they can receive from the NeRDA portal. This will allow the project to assess and understand the value that can be unlocked by stakeholders from accessing the data provided.

Expected Benefits

The project’s high-level objectives are to provide near real-time network and load model data for both SSEN licence areas by sharing all HV and LV network data that is available. Alongside this real-time data, the project will improve the APIs to provide users with static data around network configuration and capacity data. Improvements will also be made to the NeRDA dashboards to allow users to easily interact with the network data and understand the different levels of data that are available to them.

Progress

NeRDA 2 is successfully providing real-time network data across both SSEN license areas. Over the past 12 months NeRDA 2 has increased the amount of network data available to stakeholders to eight million data points:

Real-time data from over 5,000 secondary substations.

A new interactive dashboard platform has been deployed, making it easier for users to search for the specific data that they are interested in. This was informed by a face-to-face stakeholder event held in London, and can be accessed via: https://nerda.ssen.co.uk

The API authentication has been changed to a barrier token to increase security.

Data has been made available through NeRDA 2 for the Orkney Active Network Management schemes.