🌍 UK Carbon Intensity Scraper

🚀 Export the UK National Grid's live carbon intensity feed in seconds. Real-time and forecast gCO2/kWh for every 30-minute slot, regional breakdowns across 14 GB Distribution Network Operator regions, postcode lookups, and per-fuel generation mix. No sign-up.

The UK Carbon Intensity Scraper exports the official National Grid ESO Carbon Intensity feed and returns 15 fields per record, including forecast and actual gCO2/kWh, the human-readable intensity index (very low / low / moderate / high / very high), 14 regional breakdowns, postcode-level intensity, and per-fuel generation mix. The Carbon Intensity feed is the canonical reference for measuring grid carbon in Great Britain and powers smart-tariff providers, demand-response apps, and academic decarbonization research.

The catalogue covers every 30-minute slot with national, regional (per GB Distribution Network Operator region), and postcode-level views, plus forecast windows up to 48 hours ahead and historical statistics back through the start of the feed. This Actor makes the data downloadable as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML in under a minute.

📋 What the UK Carbon Intensity Scraper does

Eight data modes in a single Actor:

• ⚡ Current half-hour (national). The latest 30-minute slot, with forecast and actual gCO2/kWh.
• 🕒 Past 24 hours (national). 48 half-hourly observations.
• 📅 Custom date range (national). Up to a 14-day window.
• 🗺️ Regional breakdown. 14 GB Distribution Network Operator regions plus aggregates for England, Scotland, and Wales.
• 📮 Postcode lookup. Outcode-level (e.g. SW1A, M1, EH1) intensity and per-fuel mix.
• 🔌 Generation mix (national). Per-fuel percentages for the current half-hour (gas, coal, biomass, nuclear, hydro, imports, solar, wind).
• 📊 Emission factors. gCO2/kWh per fuel type used in the methodology.
• 📈 Intensity statistics. Min, max, and average across a chosen period.

💡 Why it matters: carbon-aware decisions need real-time grid data. Building your own pipeline means tracking a half-hourly feed and reconciling regional fuel mixes. This Actor skips all of that and emits one clean record per slot.

📊 Data fields

Each record includes: actualGCO2PerKwh, dnoOperator, forecastGCO2PerKwh, from, fuel, fuelLabel, generationMix, intensityIndex, percentage, regionId, regionName, scope, scrapedAt, shortName, to. These field names come straight from the actor's dataset schema, so what you see here is what lands in your dataset.

🚀 How to use

1. 📝 Sign up. Create a free account with $5 credit (takes 2 minutes).
2. 🌐 Open the Actor. Go to the UK Carbon Intensity Scraper page on the Apify Store.
3. 🎯 Set input. Pick a mode (current, past-24h, regional, postcode, etc.) and any filters.
4. 🚀 Run it. Click Start and let the Actor pull the live feed.
5. 📥 Download. Grab your results in the Dataset tab as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML.

⏱️ Total time from signup to downloaded carbon dataset: 3-5 minutes. No coding required.

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⚠️ Disclaimer: this Actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by National Grid ESO or any of its affiliates. All trademarks mentioned are the property of their respective owners. Only publicly available open-energy data is collected.

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