Carbon Intensity API

The Carbon Intensity API is the official carbon intensity forecasting service for Great Britain, developed by the National Energy System Operator (NESO) in partnership with EDF, the University of Oxford, and WWF. It provides real-time, forecast, and historical carbon intensity data alongside generation mix information for GB electricity, with 96+ hour forecasts and 30-minute temporal resolution across 14 regional DNO boundaries. The API is publicly accessible with no authentication required and is licensed under CC BY 4.0.

Carbon Intensity API publishes 5 APIs on the APIs.io network, including Factors API, Generation Mix API, National Intensity API, and 2 more. Tagged areas include Carbon Intensity, Environment, Energy, Electricity, and Climate.

The Carbon Intensity API catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context and 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

Carbon Intensity API’s developer surface includes documentation and 8 more developer resources.

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5 APIs

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Contract Quality 17.8 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 1.7 / 20

Commercial Clarity 7.9 / 20

Operational Transparency 4.8 / 13

Governance 7.0 / 12

Discoverability 7.4 / 10

Agent readiness — 25/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 7 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

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Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

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APIs 5

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Carbon Intensity Rate Limits

3 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

JSON Schema 4

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

Examples 5

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

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Resources

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

License

License

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

LinkedIn

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Source (apis.yml)

aid: carbon-intensity
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  source:
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  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
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name: Carbon Intensity API
description: The Carbon Intensity API is the official carbon intensity forecasting service for Great Britain, developed by
  the National Energy System Operator (NESO) in partnership with EDF, the University of Oxford, and WWF. It provides real-time,
  forecast, and historical carbon intensity data alongside generation mix information for GB electricity, with 96+ hour forecasts
  and 30-minute temporal resolution across 14 regional DNO boundaries. The API is publicly accessible with no authentication
  required and is licensed under CC BY 4.0.
specificationVersion: '0.19'
created: '2026-06-13'
modified: '2026-06-13'
tags:
- Carbon Intensity
- Environment
- Energy
- Electricity
- Climate
- Great Britain
- National Grid
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- aid: carbon-intensity:carbon-intensity-factors-api
  name: Carbon Intensity API Factors API
  description: Carbon intensity factors by fuel type
  humanURL: https://carbonintensity.org.uk/
  baseURL: https://api.carbonintensity.org.uk
  tags:
  - Factors
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- aid: carbon-intensity:carbon-intensity-generation-mix-api
  name: Carbon Intensity API Generation Mix API
  description: Electricity generation mix data (beta)
  humanURL: https://carbonintensity.org.uk/
  baseURL: https://api.carbonintensity.org.uk
  tags:
  - Generation Mix
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- aid: carbon-intensity:carbon-intensity-national-intensity-api
  name: Carbon Intensity API National Intensity API
  description: National carbon intensity data for Great Britain
  humanURL: https://carbonintensity.org.uk/
  baseURL: https://api.carbonintensity.org.uk
  tags:
  - National Intensity
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- aid: carbon-intensity:carbon-intensity-regional-api
  name: Carbon Intensity API Regional API
  description: Regional carbon intensity and generation mix data (beta)
  humanURL: https://carbonintensity.org.uk/
  baseURL: https://api.carbonintensity.org.uk
  tags:
  - Regional
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- aid: carbon-intensity:carbon-intensity-statistics-api
  name: Carbon Intensity API Statistics API
  description: Carbon intensity statistics and aggregations
  humanURL: https://carbonintensity.org.uk/
  baseURL: https://api.carbonintensity.org.uk
  tags:
  - Statistics
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maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com