Carbon Intensity Plans
Machine-readable plans and pricing definition for the Carbon Intensity API. The API is provided free of charge with no authentication required, under a CC BY 4.0 license. NESO applies a rate limit and may block applications that make a large number of calls, but no specific published limit numbers exist. Values below are best-available estimates from public documentation.
Carbon Intensity Plans is the machine-readable pricing-plan profile for Carbon Intensity API on the APIs.io network, conforming to the API Commons Plans specification.
It defines 1 plan, covering free tiers, with named plans including Free.
Tagged areas include Environment, Energy, Carbon Intensity, and Great Britain.
Plans
The Carbon Intensity API is entirely free to use with no authentication, API keys, or registration required. Provided by NESO as a public service under CC BY 4.0. Rate limiting is applied at NESO's discretion; no paid tiers exist.
- No Authentication Required
- National Carbon Intensity Endpoints
- Regional Carbon Intensity Endpoints
- Generation Mix Endpoints
- Statistics Endpoints
- 96+ Hour Forecasts
- Historical Data (up to 14-day range queries)
- Postcode-Level Queries
- CC BY 4.0 Licensed Data
Work with this as data
Every plan here is available over the APIs.io API and to AI agents over MCP.