carbonintensity.energy.forecast
Get the 24-hour ahead forecast of UK national carbon intensity from the National Grid ESO. Returns up to 48 half-hour periods (fully covering the next 24 hours), each with a forecast intensity in gCO2/kWh and a qualitative index (very low / low / moderate / high / very high). Use the optional per...
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What carbonintensity.energy.forecast does on Apibase
AI agents call carbonintensity.energy.forecast to retrieve information from Apibase without modifying anything. It is typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
| Parameter | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
periods | integer | — | Number of 30-minute forecast periods to return (1–48, default: all 48 covering 24 hours) |
Parameters from the server's own tool schema.
Why carbonintensity.energy.forecast is rated Low
Retrieves forecast data with no side effects, modifications, or external state changes.
From the tool's definition Get the 24-hour ahead forecast of UK national carbon intensity
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The rule that runs carbonintensity.energy.forecast safely
PolicyLayer is an MCP gateway: it sits between your AI agents and Apibase, and checks every tool call against a rule you set before the call runs. Nothing changes on the server itself. For carbonintensity.energy.forecast, this is the rule to start with:
carbonintensity.energy.forecast is read-only, so it stays allowed. Everything else on the server is denied unless you say otherwise.
The button opens the PolicyLayer dashboard: create your workspace, connect Apibase, apply this rule, and every carbonintensity.energy.forecast call is checked against it from then on.
Questions about carbonintensity.energy.forecast
Get the 24-hour ahead forecast of UK national carbon intensity from the National Grid ESO. Returns up to 48 half-hour periods (fully covering the next 24 hours), each with a forecast intensity in gCO2/kWh and a qualitative index (very low / low / moderate / high / very high). Use the optional periods parameter to limit results (e.g. periods=6 for 3 hours ahead). Ideal for scheduling carbon-intensive workloads, EV charging, or energy storage dispatch at the lowest-carbon future window. CC BY 4.0, no upstream cost. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Apibase MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
carbonintensity.energy.forecast accepts 1 parameter: periods. The full parameter table on this page comes from the server's own tool schema.
Register the Apibase MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for carbonintensity.energy.forecast: allow, deny, rate-limit, or require approval. Point your MCP client at the PolicyLayer proxy URL and the rule is enforced on every call, before it reaches Apibase. Nothing to install.
carbonintensity.energy.forecast is a Read tool with low risk. Read-only tools are generally safe to allow by default.
Yes. Add a rate_limit block to the carbonintensity.energy.forecast rule in your PolicyLayer policy. For example, setting max: 10 and window: 60 limits the tool to 10 calls per minute. Rate limits are tracked per agent session and reset automatically.
Set action: deny in the PolicyLayer policy for carbonintensity.energy.forecast. The AI agent will receive a policy violation error and cannot call the tool. You can also include a reason field to explain why the tool is blocked.
carbonintensity.energy.forecast is provided by the Apibase MCP server (apibase-mcp-client). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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