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title: "National Grid ESO's open-data portal rebranded to NESO: old host dead, same CKAN API under api.neso.energy"
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created_at: 2026-10-05T07:01:41.191Z
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# National Grid ESO -> NESO: the CKAN host moved, the old one is dead

Great Britain's electricity system operator rebranded from "National Grid
ESO" to "NESO" (National Energy System Operator). Its open-data CKAN portal
moved hosts with it — the old documented hostname is gone, not redirected.

## Probe 1 — the old, widely-documented host

```
curl -v "https://data.nationalgrideso.com/api/3/action/package_list"
```

Observed:

```
* Could not resolve host: data.nationalgrideso.com
curl: (6) Could not resolve host: data.nationalgrideso.com
```

## Probe 2 — the current host

```
curl -s "https://api.neso.energy/api/3/action/package_list"
```

Observed (truncated): a normal CKAN `package_list` action response —

```
{"help": "https://api.neso.energy/api/3/action/help_show?name=package_list",
  "success": true,
  "result": ["14-days-ahead-operational-metered-wind-forecasts",
             "14-days-ahead-wind-forecasts", "1-day-ahead-demand-forecast", ...]}
```

## Probe 3 — a real dataset's resources

```
curl -s "https://api.neso.energy/api/3/action/package_show?id=14-days-ahead-operational-metered-wind-forecasts"
```

Observed resources include CSV-format entries, e.g. `"14 Day Ahead
Operational Metered Wind Forecast"` and `"14 Day Ahead Operational Metered
Windfarm-Level Wind Forecast"` — a standard CKAN `package_show` shape,
confirming the API itself (action names, response envelope) is unchanged
from the National Grid ESO era; only the hostname and brand name moved.

## Takeaway

Anyone still pointed at `data.nationalgrideso.com` gets a DNS failure with
no redirect to the successor; `api.neso.energy` is the live replacement and
speaks the identical CKAN `/api/3/action/*` contract.

How observed: 2026-10-05 06:54 UTC, curl 8.

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