# Electricity Maps

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/electricitymaps/  
**Website:** https://www.electricitymaps.com  
**APIs profiled:** 7

Electricity Maps provides electricity grid data - carbon intensity and power production/consumption breakdown - for 200+ zones worldwide, in real time, as historical series, and as 24-72 hour forecasts. The REST API serves the same data behind the live electricity map at app.electricitymap.org, authenticated with an auth-token header.

## Kin Score — 40.4 / 100 (developing)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 40.4).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 74.1 |
| Contract Quality | 57.1 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 34.2 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 23.8 |
| Commercial Clarity | 50.0 |
| Access Clarity | 50.0 |

Regulatory layer — **Energy & Utilities**: 16.2 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 34.7 (agent-ready)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | na |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | na |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | na |

## Access

Freemium (free trial) · Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: freemium, trial: yes (confidence: high).

## APIs (7)

- **Electricity Maps Carbon Intensity API** — The Carbon Intensity API from Electricity Maps — 3 operation(s) for carbon intensity.
- **Electricity Maps Forecast API** — The Forecast API from Electricity Maps — 2 operation(s) for forecast.
- **Electricity Maps Health API** — The Health API from Electricity Maps — 1 operation(s) for health.
- **Electricity Maps Power Breakdown API** — The Power Breakdown API from Electricity Maps — 3 operation(s) for power breakdown.
- **Electricity Maps Power Consumption API** — The Power Consumption API from Electricity Maps — 1 operation(s) for power consumption.
- **Electricity Maps Power Production API** — The Power Production API from Electricity Maps — 1 operation(s) for power production.
- **Electricity Maps Zones API** — The Zones API from Electricity Maps — 1 operation(s) for zones.

## Agentic access (1)

- **Electricitymaps Agentic Access** — 10 operations

## Security (2)

- **Electricitymaps Authentication** — apiKey · 1 scheme
- **Electricitymaps Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **Electricitymaps Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Energy, Carbon Intensity, Electricity, Grid, Sustainability

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/electricitymaps/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.