Totals, capacity & fuel breakdown

Code snippets

curl "https://api.oanor.com/powerplants-api/v1/meta" \
  -H "x-oanor-key: oanor_test_..."

await fetch("https://api.oanor.com/powerplants-api/v1/meta", {
  headers: { "x-oanor-key": "oanor_test_..." }
});

$ch = curl_init("https://api.oanor.com/powerplants-api/v1/meta");
curl_setopt($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/powerplants-api/v1/meta",
    headers={"x-oanor-key": "oanor_test_..."}
)

Example response

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

{
    "data": {
        "note": "id = WRI/GPPD identifier. Capacity in megawatts (MW).",
        "fuels": [
            {
                "fuel": "Solar",
                "count": 10665
            },
            {
                "fuel": "Hydro",
                "count": 7156
            },
            {
                "fuel": "Wind",
                "count": 5344
            },
            {
                "fuel": "Gas",
                "count": 3998
            },
            {
                "fuel": "Coal",
                "count": 2330
            },
            {
                "fuel": "Oil",
                "count": 2320
            },
            {
                "fuel": "Biomass",
                "count": 1430
            },
            {
                "fuel": "Waste",
                "count": 1068
            },
            {
                "fuel": "Nuclear",
                "count": 195
            },
            {
                "fuel": "Geothermal",
                "count": 189
            },
            {
                "fuel": "Storage",
                "count": 135
            },
            {
                "fuel": "Other",
                "count": 43
            },
            {
                "fuel": "Cogeneration",
                "count": 41
            },
            {
                "fuel": "Petcoke",
                "count": 12
            },
            {
                "fuel": "Wave and Tidal",
                "count": 10
            }
        ],
        "total": 34936,
        "fields": [
            "id",
            "name",
            "country",
            "country_name",
            "capacity_mw",
            "fuel",
            "latitude",
            "longitude",
            "commissioning_year",
            "owner"
        ],
        "source": "WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC-BY 4.0)",
        "countries": 167,
        "total_capacity_mw": 5706975
    },
    "meta": {
        "timestamp": "2026-05-31T03:47:07.417Z",
        "request_id": "edaf7a5a-5e99-4219-9857-8b3955d2fda9"
    },
    "status": "ok",
    "message": "Meta retrieved",
    "success": true
}