Power plant or grid outage announced
energy.unavailability_announced · Ready GB electricity market urgent messages, GB
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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