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Grid Carbon MCP Server

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Grid Carbon MCP is answering right now. Last checked 4 min ago.

Electricity grid carbon intensity for Great Britain from the National Grid ESO Carbon Intensity API

Uptime history 51 days of history · worst day 99%
51 days agonow
100.0%
Uptime 24h
92 of 92 checks
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Tools
hidden behind auth
1007 ms
Response time
average over 24h
OAuth sign-in
Access
streamable-http

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check Grid Carbon MCP every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.

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Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 4 min ago.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add grid-carbon --transport http https://mcp.nexlab.net/mcp/grid-carbon
Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, then paste this address
https://mcp.nexlab.net/mcp/grid-carbon
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.grid-carbon]
url = "https://mcp.nexlab.net/mcp/grid-carbon"
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "grid-carbon": {
      "url": "https://mcp.nexlab.net/mcp/grid-carbon"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "servers": {
    "grid-carbon": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://mcp.nexlab.net/mcp/grid-carbon"
    }
  }
}

This endpoint answered with an authorization challenge. The server is running, and it signs you in through your browser: there is no API key to paste.

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://mcp.nexlab.net/mcp/grid-carbon streamable-http sign-in 1437 ms 4 min ago

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Grid Carbon MCP — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

Why is there no tool list for Grid Carbon MCP?
The server answered our handshake with an authorization challenge, so it is running — but it will not describe its tools to an anonymous client. To see them you need to connect with your own credentials. We record it as alive, not as broken: 100.0% of checks in the last 24 hours got a reply.
Is Grid Carbon MCP working right now?
We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 92 of 92 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 1007 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
How do I connect Grid Carbon MCP?
Copy the ready config from this page. We generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each in the form that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address. You sign in through your browser once and the client keeps the session: no key to copy, and it refuses anonymous clients.
How do you sign in to Grid Carbon MCP?
No API key is involved. Grid Carbon MCP answers our knock with an OAuth challenge, so you authorise it once in your browser and the client keeps the session. That is also why we see no tool list: it will not describe itself to an anonymous client, and that is the server working as intended, not a fault.
How fast is Grid Carbon MCP?
It answers our handshake in 1007 ms on average, which is faster than 5% of all working MCP servers we measure. That is on the slow side — worth knowing if the tool sits inside an interactive loop. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.