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 API contracts indexed 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 12 more developer resources.
Kin Score
Markets this provider is in provisional
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| Market | Position | Depth | Registered MCP server | Declares compatibility |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Energy and Utilities | long-tail | 2.5 (thin) | - | - |
Registered MCP server and declares compatibility are report only — not weighted. Undeclared means we found nothing we can read, so there is no number: we never infer integrations.
Standards implemented 1
Standards this provider implements or carries. De facto ones are profiled and measured by the API Commons; formal ones come from the standards directory and are linked by the provider's own tags. The evidence column says how each claim was established — not that it was made.
APIs 5
Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.
Carbon Intensity API Factors API
Carbon intensity factors by fuel type
Carbon Intensity API Generation Mix API
Electricity generation mix data (beta)
Carbon Intensity API National Intensity API
National carbon intensity data for Great Britain
Carbon Intensity API Regional API
Regional carbon intensity and generation mix data (beta)
Carbon Intensity API Statistics API
Carbon intensity statistics and aggregations
Open Collections 5
Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).
Carbon Intensity Factors API
OPEN COLLECTIONCarbon Intensity Factors Generation Mix API
OPEN COLLECTIONCarbon Intensity Factors National Intensity API
OPEN COLLECTIONCarbon Intensity Factors Regional API
OPEN COLLECTIONCarbon Intensity Factors Statistics API
OPEN COLLECTIONCarbon Intensity API pricing
Not yet checked against Carbon Intensity API's own pricing page. Compiled by API Evangelist on 2026-06-13; confirm before you rely on a figure. A free plan or tier is listed.
| Plan | Price |
|---|---|
| Free free | Free |
Plan details, limits and sources →
Rate limits
- Public Free Tier Rate Limit: 100 requests per minute
- Intensity Date Range Constraint: 14 days per query
- Statistics Date Range Constraint: 30 days per query
Compiled by API Evangelist, not yet checked against Carbon Intensity API's documentation. Rate-limit details →
Pricing Plans 1
Published pricing tiers and plan structures.
Rate Limits 1
Documented rate limits and quota policies.
Carbon Intensity Rate Limits
RATE LIMITSService Levels 1
Uptime the provider promises or reports, as SLA4OAI. Read from its own pages; APIs.io runs no monitors.
FinOps 1
Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.
Carbon Intensity Finops
FINOPSSemantic Vocabularies 1
JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.
Carbon Intensity Context
JSON-LDSpectral Rules 1
Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.
JSON Schema 4
Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.
Generation Mix
JSON SCHEMACarbon Intensity Factors
JSON SCHEMAIntensity Period
JSON SCHEMARegional Intensity
JSON SCHEMAExamples 5
Example request and response payloads for these APIs.
Get Current Intensity
EXAMPLEGet Generation Mix
EXAMPLEGet Intensity Factors
EXAMPLEGet Intensity Stats
EXAMPLEGet Regional Intensity
EXAMPLESecurity Posture 1
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.
Agentic Access 1
Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.
Resources
Documentation 1
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Agent Surfaces 1
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Build 1
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 1
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Operate 2
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 4
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 2
The organization behind the API
Other 1
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
Source (apis.yml)
Carbon Intensity API — frequently asked questions
Does Carbon Intensity API have an API?
Yes. APIs.io lists 5 APIs from Carbon Intensity API, including Carbon Intensity API Factors API, Carbon Intensity API Generation Mix API and Carbon Intensity API National Intensity API, and 2 more.
Is there an OpenAPI specification for the Carbon Intensity API?
Yes. APIs.io indexes 5 OpenAPI specifications for Carbon Intensity API, each linked for download from this page.
How much does the Carbon Intensity API cost?
APIs.io lists 1 pricing plan for Carbon Intensity API, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing on this page.
Is the Carbon Intensity API ready for AI agents?
Carbon Intensity API has a Kin Score of 30.7 out of 100 (thin) and an Agent Readiness score of 23.8 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.
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