Power plant or grid outage announced

energy.unavailability_announced · Ready GB electricity market urgent messages, GB

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What it is

Public: from open or licensed sources, shared by everyone who subscribes.

  • Example: Unplanned outage at Shoreham Power Station (gas, GB): 320 of 460 MW unavailable, 21 Oct 08:00 to 21 Oct 20:00 UTC
  • Typed payload, validated by its JSON Schema
  • Collected today from GB electricity market urgent messages (GB)

Each event names its exact source, a link to the record, the licence and the attribution in its provenance.

Example event, standard format
{
  "specversion": "1.0",
  "id": "evt_01M5EV0NM0W9DHVK0RF104PXMR",
  "type": "energy.unavailability_announced",
  "source": "/sources/examples/energy",
  "time": "2026-10-21T09:00:00Z",
  "observed_at": "2026-10-21T09:00:42Z",
  "dataschema": "https://schemas.worldsignals.dev/energy.unavailability_announced/1.json",
  "datacontenttype": "application/json",
  "visibility": "public",
  "country": "GB",
  "subject": {
    "kind": "company",
    "name": "VPI Power Limited",
    "ids": {
      "eic": "48X000000000283J",
      "gb_bmrs_participant": "SPGEN01"
    },
    "ws_id": "ent_01M5EV0NM0TEBDKKSQM67GRPDP"
  },
  "entities": [
    {
      "kind": "establishment",
      "role": "unit",
      "name": "Shoreham Power Station",
      "ids": {
        "eic": "48W000000SHOS-1N"
      }
    },
    {
      "kind": "market",
      "role": "bidding_zone",
      "name": "Great Britain (GB)",
      "ids": {
        "eic": "10YGB----------A"
      }
    }
  ],
  "title": "Unplanned outage at Shoreham Power Station (gas, GB): 320 of 460 MW unavailable, 21 Oct 08:00 to 21 Oct 20:00 UTC",
  "data": {
    "message_id": "48X000000000283J-NGET-RMT-00053760",
    "version": 1,
    "message_type": "production",
    "status": "active",
    "planned": false,
    "reason": "Gas Turbine",
    "fuel": "gas",
    "bidding_zone": {
      "eic": "10YGB----------A",
      "code": "GB"
    },
    "countries": [
      "GB"
    ],
    "unavailable_mw": 320,
    "installed_mw": 460,
    "available_mw": 140,
    "event_start": "2026-10-21T08:00:00Z",
    "event_end": "2026-10-21T20:00:00Z",
    "duration_hours": 12,
    "units": [
      {
        "name": "Shoreham Power Station",
        "eic": "48W000000SHOS-1N",
        "fuel": "gas",
        "installed_mw": 460,
        "unavailable_mw": 320,
        "available_mw": 140
      }
    ],
    "published_at": "2026-10-21T09:00:00Z"
  },
  "provenance": {
    "source_id": "example",
    "source_name": "Example data",
    "url": "https://example.com/worldsignals/energy.unavailability_announced",
    "licence": "Example only, not a real record",
    "method": "example"
  },
  "confidence": 0.95,
  "personal_data": false,
  "revision": 1,
  "tags": [
    "example",
    "remit",
    "generation",
    "unplanned",
    "gas"
  ]
}

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