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UK Carbon Intensity API - Grid CO2, Forecast, Fuel Mix

Great Britain electricity carbon intensity from the national grid operator: actual and forecast gCO2/kWh every half hour with a low-to-very-high index, generation mix by fuel, regional forecasts for 14 regions or any postcode, and emission factors per fuel.

$0.08 per 1,000 periods

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What it returns

Carbon intensity of Great Britain's electricity from the Carbon Intensity API run by the national grid operator (NESO) with the University of Oxford and WWF.

Common uses

Carbon-aware scheduling of compute, EV charging and heating, sustainability reporting, smart home apps. Pay per row returned.

Request

POST https://api.pushbuild.com/uk-carbon-intensity/run with a JSON body. Send your key in the X-API-Key header.

FieldTypeDescription
modestring: national, regional, factorsNational, regional or emission factors. Default: "national".
fromstringe.g. 2026-10-21T00:00 (default: 24 hours ago)
tostringDefault: 24 hours ahead (forecast).
regionsstringRegional mode: names or IDs, e.g. London,North Scotland,13
postcodestringRegional mode: outward code, e.g. SW1A
maxItemsintegerMaximum items to return (1-500). Default: 100.

Example

curl -X POST https://api.pushbuild.com/uk-carbon-intensity/run \
  -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"maxItems": 20}'

Response

{"count": 20, "truncated": false, "seconds": 1.4, "items": [ { ... } ]}

Each call returns up to 500 items. Records that fail validation or are not found are flagged in the items and not charged.

Pricing

Pay only for results returned: $0.08 per 1,000 periods. No charge for errors or empty searches.

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