UK Grid Carbon Intelligence
When is the UK electricity grid greenest, and why?
Data refreshed every 30 minutes from the Carbon Intensity API · Last checked: 03:04 UTC, 1 June 2026
What you'll find here
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Regional Choropleth
Live carbon-intensity map across all 14 UK DNO licence regions, updated every half-hour from National Grid ESO open data.
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Methodology
How the pipeline works: Dagster ingestion, dbt dimensional model, and what “carbon intensity” actually measures.
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Blog
Write-ups on engineering decisions, UK grid behaviour, and what the data reveals about renewable penetration.
Coming in Phase 6
Pipeline status
Live data freshness indicators will appear here in Phase 2.