Welcome to the Balancing Mechanism Reporting System (BMRS)

This BMRS website provides near real time and historic data about the Balancing Mechanism which is used by the National Grid (System Operator) as a means of balancing power flows on to and off the electricity Transmission System in Great Britain.

Enhancements to the BMRS website user interface are now live (effective from 12 March 2008). These enhancements aim to improve the usability of the site. These changes include an updated BMRA Summary Page, bringing together key items of electricity market data on a single vertically scrollable page. If you have any questions or feedback relating to these enhancements please contact us as described on the Contact Us page.

Logica UK Ltd is the Service Provider who has responsibility for the development and maintenance of this facility.

ELEXON Ltd is the Balancing and Settlement Code Company (BSCCo) defined and created by the Balancing and Settlement Code (BSC and also known as the Code). ELEXON Ltd procures, manages and operates services and systems, which enable imbalance settlement of the wholesale electricity market and retail competition in electricity supply.

The BSCCo (ELEXON Ltd) supports the BSC Panel, which oversees the operation of the trading arrangements and modifications to the trading rules. ELEXON Ltd publishes on its website additional information which is relevant to the process of Imbalance Settlement. To access this information please click on the website link below:

All Intellectual Property Rights in the data and information on this BMRA Website ("data") are owned pursuant to and in accordance with the terms of the Balancing and Settlement Code ("BSC"). The data shall not be used or reproduced except with the prior written consent of the owner of such data. For the avoidance of doubt, all Intellectual Property Rights in all data shall be the property of and vest in ELEXON Limited and shall not be used or reproduced except with the prior written consent of ELEXON Limited. ELEXON Limited does not and shall not be deemed to warrant or guarantee or make any representation (in each case, whether expressly or impliedly) as to the title, completeness, accuracy, reliability, freeness from error, method of preparation, merchantability or fitness for the purpose or for any particular purpose (whether or not any such purpose has been notified to ELEXON Limited) of the data nor as to the availability or continued availability of the BMRA Website (or any part thereof) or that access to it will be uninterrupted. Users of the BMRA Website shall in addition accept that the data is indicative data only. Users of this site interested in exploiting or modifying any data herein must contact ELEXON Limited via its Help Desk on 020 7380 4222.

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