energy.carbon-intensity-uk

Great Britain electricity grid carbon intensity (current half-hour) from National Grid ESO. Returns the forecast and actual carbon intensity in grams of CO2 per kWh, the qualitative index (very low / low / moderate / high / very high), and the live generation mix by fuel (gas, wind, nuclear, solar, imports, etc.). Free, CC BY / Open Government Licence. Live grid-decarbonisation signal an LLM cannot recall — for energy, sustainability, and demand-shifting agents. Complements our US energy.* set.

price

$0.0010 USDC per call

method

GET/api/energy/carbon-intensity-uk

payment

x402 v2 · USDC on Base (EIP-3009) or Solana (SPL transfer)

auth

None. Sign the payment, retry with PAYMENT-SIGNATURE.

tier

Tier 0 — no paid upstream

Code samples

cURLbash

# 1. Probe with no auth → 402 envelope with PaymentRequirements
curl -sS 'https://2s.io/api/energy/carbon-intensity-uk'

# 2. Sign + retry with PAYMENT-SIGNATURE:
curl -sS 'https://2s.io/api/energy/carbon-intensity-uk' \
  -H 'PAYMENT-SIGNATURE: <base64-json-payload>'

# Or use the canonical runner (handles probe → sign → retry):
#   EVM_PRIVATE_KEY=0x... node --env-file=.env.local \
#     --experimental-strip-types scripts/x402-pay.ts \
#     'https://2s.io/api/energy/carbon-intensity-uk'

TypeScript / Node — @2sio/sdktypescript

import { TwoS } from '@2sio/sdk'

const client = new TwoS({
  privateKey: process.env.EVM_PRIVATE_KEY as `0x${string}`,
})

const result = await client.energy.carbonIntensityUk({})

console.log('endpoint:', result.endpoint)
console.log('cost:', result.costUsd, 'USDC')
console.log('tx:', result.settlement?.txHash)
console.log('data:', result.data)

Python — 2siopython

import os
from twosio import TwoS

client = TwoS(private_key=os.environ["EVM_PRIVATE_KEY"])

result = client.energy.carbon_intensity_uk()

print("endpoint:", result.endpoint)
print("cost:", result.cost_usd, "USDC")
print("tx:", (result.settlement or {}).get("tx_hash"))
print("data:", result.data)

MCP — Claude Desktop / AgentKit / any MCP hostjson

// 1. Add @2sio/mcp to your MCP host config (Claude Desktop example below).
//    EVM_PRIVATE_KEY funds x402 payments per call.

// claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "2sio": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@2sio/mcp"],
      "env": { "EVM_PRIVATE_KEY": "0x..." }
    }
  }
}

// 2. Once the server is running, agents call this tool via standard MCP:

{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 1,
  "method": "tools/call",
  "params": {
    "name": "energy.carbon-intensity-uk",
    "arguments": {}
  }
}

Response

Field	Type	Description
`ok`	boolean	one of: true
`items`	array
`total`	integer	Total matching rows upstream; null when unknown.
`source`	object

Example response datajson

{
  "ok": true,
  "items": [
    {
      "period": {
        "from": "example",
        "to": "example"
      },
      "intensity": {
        "forecastGCO2PerKWh": 1,
        "actualGCO2PerKWh": 1,
        "index": "example"
      },
      "generationMix": [
        {
          "fuel": "example",
          "percent": 1
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "provider": "example",
        "url": "example",
        "license": "example"
      },
      "note": "example"
    }
  ],
  "total": 1,
  "source": {
    "provider": "example",
    "url": "example",
    "license": "example"
  }
}

Discovery

/api/directory — full catalog of every endpoint
/openapi.json — OpenAPI 3.1 spec (per-op x-payment-info, x402Payment security)
/.well-known/x402 — machine-readable service descriptor for x402-aware crawlers
/.well-known/mcp/server-card.json — MCP SEP-1649 server card
/llms.txt — plain-text manifest for LLM ingestion

2s.io is x402-native. Every call is paid per-request from a USDC-funded EVM wallet on Base — no signup, no API keys, no monthly fees. Source code: github.com/2s-io/sdk.