UK Grid Carbon Intensity API

Following on from my blog post creating an ambient indicator to indicate wind turbine renewable electricity generation we have extended the Emoncms UK electric grid statistic aggregation to calculate and record the UK electric grid carbon intensity i.e. the amount of carbon emitted per kWh (CO2/kWh). As before we have created a dashboard open API for easy access to this data.

http://emoncms.org/ukelectricitygrid/ukgrid

http://emoncms.org/ukelectricitygrid/ukwind

Dashboards:

http://emoncms.org/ukelectricitygrid/ukgrid

http://emoncms.org/ukelectricitygrid/ukwind

Open-API:

UK grid carbon intensity: http://emoncms.org/feed/value.json?id=97715

UK wind: http://emoncms.org/feed/value.json?id=67088

Other feeds are also available including grid fuel mix and current energy demand, just place 'id' in the API with the feed ID's below: 

Feed	Name	Current Value (22/11/15 22hrs)
97689	CCGT_val	11592
97690	CCGT_prc	0.31
97691	OCGT_val	0
97692	OCGT_prc	0
97693	OIL_val	0
97694	OIL_prc	0
97695	COAL_val	10785
97696	COAL_prc	0.29
97697	NUCLEAR_val	7798
97698	NUCLEAR_prc	0.21
97699	WIND_val	1308
97700	WIND_prc	0.03
97701	PS_val	397
97702	PS_prc	0.01
97703	NPSHYD_val	533
97704	NPSHYD_prc	0.01
97705	OTHER_val	1976
97706	OTHER_prc	0.05
97707	INTFR_val	1495
97708	INTFR_prc	0.04
97709	INTIRL_val	0
97710	INTIRL_prc	0
97711	INTNED_val	975
97712	INTNED_prc	0.02
97713	INTEW_val	0
97714	INTEW_prc	0
97715	gridintensity	435.6
97736	totalsupply	36859

If you use the API in your project please drop us a line and give Emoncms some credit :-)

The data is captured from the UK Balancing BM Reports XML. Our figure for grid intensity matched the figure generated by http://www.gridcarbon.uk/.