UK National Grid Carbon Intensity API

National Grid’s Carbon Intensity API provides an indicative trend of regional carbon intensity of the electricity system in Great Britain (GB) up to 2 days ahead of real-time. It provides programmatic and timely access to both forecast and estimated carbon intensity data. The Carbon Intensity forecast includes CO2 emissions related to electricity generation only. The includes emissions from all large metered power stations, interconnector imports, transmission and distribution losses, and accounts for national electricity demand, embedded wind and solar generation.

It contains the following resources;

  • Carbon Intensity - National
  • Statistics - National
  • Generation Mix - National
  • Carbon Intensity - Regional

Data and Resources

Additional Info

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Source https://api.carbonintensity.org.uk/
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Author Alasdair Bruce
Author Email Alasdair Bruce
Maintainer
Maintainer Email
Shared (this field will be removed in the future) Open
IB1 Sensitivity Class IB1-O - Open Data
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ib1:sensitivityClass IB1-O