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Electricity Maps Power Production API

The Power Production API from Electricity Maps — 1 operation(s) for power production.

Electricity Maps Power Production API is one of 7 APIs that Electricity Maps publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.

Tagged areas include Power Production. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification, API documentation, and an API reference.

This API exposes 1 operation across 1 path, and defines 3 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.0.1, at version 3.0.

Requests are made against a single base URL, https://api.electricitymap.org/v3.

1 operations 1 paths 3 schemas 1 GET

Metadata

The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.

Specification
OpenAPI 3.0.1
API Version
3.0
Base URL
https://api.electricitymap.org/v3
Authentication
API Key
Terms of Service
Resource Areas
1

Authentication & Security 1

Electricity Maps Power Production API declares 1 security scheme for authenticating requests. An API key is passed in the header as auth-token (authToken). By default, every request must be authenticated.

  • authToken — API key issued from the Electricity Maps portal, sent in the auth-token header.

Paths & Operations 1

Across 1 path, the API surfaces 1 operation — 1 GET. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.

Power Production 1
GET
/power-production-breakdown/latest
Latest power production breakdown
getPowerProductionBreakdownLatest 3 params → 200401

Schemas 3

The contract defines 3 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are SourceBreakdown (12 properties), PowerProductionBreakdown (4 properties), Error (2 properties). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.

SourceBreakdown
object
Power in MW per production type. Values may be null when unknown.
12 properties
Error
object
2 properties
PowerProductionBreakdown
object
4 properties

Specification

The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.

Source

electricitymaps-power-production-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑

Other APIs Electricity Maps publishes across the network.

Electricity Maps Carbon Intensity API
Electricity Maps Forecast API
Electricity Maps Health API
Electricity Maps Power Breakdown API
Electricity Maps Power Consumption API
Electricity Maps Zones API