Eia Data Response Example

Example EIA API v2 data response for electricity retail sales

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Eia Data Response Example is an example object payload from Department of Energy, with 5 top-level fields. It illustrates the shape of data this provider's APIs accept or return.

Top-level fields

descriptionapiendpointrequest_paramsresponse

Example Payload

{
  "description": "Example EIA API v2 data response for electricity retail sales",
  "api": "EIA Open Data API v2",
  "endpoint": "/v2/electricity/retail-sales/data",
  "request_params": {
    "frequency": "monthly",
    "data[0]": "sales",
    "start": "2023-01",
    "end": "2023-12",
    "sort[0][column]": "period",
    "sort[0][direction]": "desc",
    "length": 5
  },
  "response": {
    "response": {
      "total": 600,
      "dateFormat": {
        "monthly": "YYYY-MM"
      },
      "frequency": "monthly",
      "data": [
        {
          "period": "2023-12",
          "stateid": "US",
          "sectorid": "ALL",
          "stateDescription": "U.S. Total",
          "sectorName": "All Sectors",
          "sales": 335012.3,
          "sales-units": "million kilowatthours"
        },
        {
          "period": "2023-11",
          "stateid": "US",
          "sectorid": "ALL",
          "stateDescription": "U.S. Total",
          "sectorName": "All Sectors",
          "sales": 312445.6,
          "sales-units": "million kilowatthours"
        }
      ]
    },
    "request": {
      "command": "/v2/electricity/retail-sales/data/",
      "params": {
        "frequency": "monthly",
        "data": [
          "sales"
        ],
        "start": "2023-01",
        "end": "2023-12"
      }
    }
  }
}

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