Electricity Maps CarbonIntensity API
Carbon intensity (gCO2eq/kWh) signals.
Electricity Maps CarbonIntensity API is one of 6 APIs that Electricity Maps publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.
Tagged areas include CarbonIntensity. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification and API documentation.
This API exposes 2 operations across 2 paths, and defines 1 schema. It is described by OpenAPI 3.1.0, at version 3.0.
Requests are made against a single base URL, https://api.electricitymap.org.
Metadata
The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.
Authentication & Security 2
Electricity Maps CarbonIntensity API declares
2 security schemes
for authenticating requests.
An API key is passed in the header as auth-token (authToken).
It accepts HTTP basic authentication (basicAuth).
By default, every request must be authenticated.
authToken— API token issued from the Electricity Maps portal.
Paths & Operations 2
Across 2 paths, the API surfaces 2 operations — 2 GET. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.
Carbon intensity (gCO2eq/kWh) signals.
Schemas 1
The contract defines 1 schema that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed is SignalResponse (9 properties). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.
Specification
The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.
Source
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