Follow the crossings
Every time an outage in the open feeds passes the 12, 24 or 48 hour line, an entry is added here. During a storm that is a running count of who may be owed what.
Subscribe
- Atom
- https://makeclaims.co.uk/data/feed.xml
- JSON Feed
- https://makeclaims.co.uk/data/feed.json
- Everything, as data
- https://makeclaims.co.uk/data/outages.json (every incident the site knows about, with hours and estimates) and https://makeclaims.co.uk/data/events.json (the last 500 crossings)
Any feed reader works with the Atom feed. The files update within ten minutes of a crossing.
What an entry looks like
West Kent Zone (UK Power Networks) has passed 24 hours without power.
21 customers. Logged Mon 2 Nov 14:26. If the operator classes it as a
normal fault, each household may be owed £145 so far; as severe weather
category 1, £90. Payments are usually automatic. How to claim:
https://makeclaims.co.uk/claim/#ukpnEach JSON entry also carries a post field with the same text trimmed for a social post, so the count can be shared as it happens.
Make Claims on LinkedIn posts a summary of new crossings: at most one post every 30 minutes, and only once they affect at least 1,000 customers, so calm days stay quiet. A person checks each post before it goes up. To share a single crossing, use the post text in the JSON feed.
Reusing the data
Make Claims's own files are free to reuse with a link back. The outage data inside them belongs to the operators and carries their licences, listed on the about page; keep their attributions if you republish.