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GET /v1/generation

Current generation mix

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Code snippets

curl "https://api.oanor.com/carbonintensity-api/v1/generation" \
  -H "x-oanor-key: oanor_test_..."
await fetch("https://api.oanor.com/carbonintensity-api/v1/generation", {
  headers: { "x-oanor-key": "oanor_test_..." }
});
$ch = curl_init("https://api.oanor.com/carbonintensity-api/v1/generation");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, ["x-oanor-key: oanor_test_..."]);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
$out = curl_exec($ch);
import requests
requests.get(
    "https://api.oanor.com/carbonintensity-api/v1/generation",
    headers={"x-oanor-key": "oanor_test_..."}
)

Example response

A real response from this endpoint, captured by the latest health check.

{
    "data": {
        "to": "2026-06-01T00:00Z",
        "from": "2026-05-31T23:30Z",
        "generation_mix": [
            {
                "fuel": "biomass",
                "percent": 11.2
            },
            {
                "fuel": "coal",
                "percent": 0
            },
            {
                "fuel": "imports",
                "percent": 16.2
            },
            {
                "fuel": "gas",
                "percent": 40.5
            },
            {
                "fuel": "nuclear",
                "percent": 10.2
            },
            {
                "fuel": "other",
                "percent": 0
            },
            {
                "fuel": "hydro",
                "percent": 0
            },
            {
                "fuel": "solar",
                "percent": 0
            },
            {
                "fuel": "wind",
                "percent": 22
            }
        ],
        "renewable_percent": 33.2,
        "zero_carbon_percent": 43.4
    },
    "meta": {
        "timestamp": "2026-06-01T00:03:37.368Z",
        "request_id": "c0463af2-8885-4bcd-8e5c-bd2ec99e9560"
    },
    "status": "ok",
    "message": "Generation retrieved",
    "success": true
}