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Manage your Carbon Footprint - Change in carbon intensity

This trigger fires whenever the carbon intensity changes for the ComEd service territory, use this trigger to help lower your carbon footprint by reducing your energy during high carbon times

About this trigger

Triggers, queries, and actions are the building blocks of Applets. Triggers tell an Applet to start, queries ask a question, and actions are its end result.

Developer info

Description
This trigger fires whenever the carbon intensity changes for the ComEd service territory, use this trigger to help lower your carbon footprint by reducing your energy during high carbon times
API endpoint slug
ComEd.carbon_intensity_change

Trigger fields

Which season Dropdown list

Label
Which season do you want this to trigger?
Slug
which_season
Required
true
Can have default value
true

Which carbon threshold Text input > Regular expression

Label
Which carbon level do you want this to trigger?
Helper text
This value is a number from 0 - 100, where a value of 0 is low carbon, and a value of 100 is high carbon
Slug
which_carbon_threshold
Required
true
Can have default value
true

Trigger type Dropdown list

Label
When to trigger?
Helper text
Whether this should trigger when the price exceeds or goes under the provided price threshold
Slug
trigger_type
Required
true
Can have default value
true

How often to trigger Dropdown list

Label
How often do you want this to trigger?
Helper text
Whether this should trigger every time a new carbon value is above or below the set carbon level or just the first time it goes above or below the value
Slug
how_often_to_trigger
Required
true
Can have default value
true

Ingredients

TimestampDate and time the carbon change occurred.

Slug
timestamp
Filter code
ComEd.carbonIntensityChange.Timestamp
Type
Date with time (ISO8601)
Example
2020-07-08T04:17:06.000+05:00

Carbon percentageThis percentage gives a indication of how clean or dirty the carbon is from 0 to100.

Slug
carbon_percentage
Filter code
ComEd.carbonIntensityChange.CarbonPercentage
Type
String
Example
45%

Carbon qualityThis specifies whether the carbon quality is clean or dirty.

Slug
carbon_index
Filter code
ComEd.carbonIntensityChange.CarbonQuality
Type
String
Example
Clean