Electricity Maps · Rate Limits

Electricitymaps Rate Limits

The Electricity Maps API applies per-token access controls and usage limits that vary by plan. The free personal tier is restricted in the set of zones and endpoints it can call, and commercial entitlements are scoped to the licensed signals and zones. Per-token request-rate and quota values are not published as fixed numbers and are not reconciled in this artifact.

Electricitymaps Rate Limits is the machine-readable rate-limit profile for Electricity Maps on the APIs.io network, conforming to the API Commons Rate Limits specification.

It captures 6 rate-limit definitions, measuring requests, zones, endpoints, days, and hours.

The profile also includes 2 backoff/retry policies defined and response codes documented for throttled.

Tagged areas include Energy, Carbon Intensity, Electricity, Grid, and Sustainability.

6 Limits Throttle: 429
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Limits

Requests token
requests
see provider documentation
Per-token request rate varies by plan; not published as a fixed value.
Zone Access token
zones
plan-dependent
Free tier is limited to a subset of zones; commercial tokens are scoped to licensed zones.
Endpoint Access token
endpoints
plan-dependent
Accessible endpoints per zone are returned by the /zones endpoint for the caller's token.
History Window token
days
plan-dependent
Trailing history (e.g. 3 months on commercial signals) is bounded by plan; extended history is custom.
Forecast Horizon token
hours
24-72
Forecast horizon (24-72 hours) depends on the licensed plan.
Unauthenticated Endpoints public
endpoints
zones, health
The /zones and /health endpoints can be requested without an API key.

Policies

Tiered Access
Zone, endpoint, history, and forecast access scale with the free, trial, commercial, and enterprise plans.
Backoff Strategy
Clients should implement exponential backoff with jitter and honor Retry-After on HTTP 429.

Sources

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