Toronto Hydro · OpenAPI Overlay 1.0.0
API Evangelist enhancements for the Green Button ESPI specification (Toronto Hydro profile)
6 actions
6 updates
update
extends
openapi/toronto-hydro-green-button-espi-openapi.yml
Derived by API Evangelist
Built from the contracts Toronto Hydro publishes. Toronto Hydro did not publish this file.
What the actions change
x-apievangelist-notex-apievangelist-providerx-apievangelist-profilex-apievangelist-spec-authorshipx-apievangelist-mandatex-apievangelist-version-gapx-apievangelist-access-gate
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$.info
$.servers
$.components.securitySchemes.oauth2
$.paths['/espi/1_1/resource/UsagePoint'].get
$.paths['/espi/1_1/resource/Authorization'].get
$.paths['/espi/1_1/resource/Batch/Bulk/{bulkId}'].get
OpenAPI Overlay
overlay: 1.0.0
info:
title: API Evangelist enhancements for the Green Button ESPI specification (Toronto Hydro profile)
version: 1.0.0
x-generated: '2026-07-27'
x-method: generated
x-source: openapi/toronto-hydro-green-button-espi-openapi.yml
x-note: >-
The extended document is authored by the Green Button Alliance, not by Toronto Hydro.
This overlay carries the API Evangelist annotations for the Toronto Hydro profile
without mutating the harvested specification: provenance, the ESPI version gap (the
document describes ESPI 4.0 while Ontario O. Reg. 633/21 mandates NAESB REQ.21 ESPI
v3.3), the fact that servers[] points at the Green Button Alliance sandbox rather than
any Toronto Hydro host, and the access gate a developer actually faces.
extends: openapi/toronto-hydro-green-button-espi-openapi.yml
actions:
- target: $.info
update:
x-apievangelist-provider: toronto-hydro
x-apievangelist-profile: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/toronto-hydro/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-apievangelist-spec-authorship: >-
Green Button Alliance. Toronto Hydro publishes no first-party OpenAPI, no API
reference and no ESPI base URI. This document is the family contract, not Toronto
Hydro's service.
x-apievangelist-mandate: >-
Ontario Regulation 633/21 (Energy Data) under the Electricity Act, 1998 compels
rate-regulated Ontario electricity and natural gas utilities to implement Green
Button Download My Data and Connect My Data to NAESB REQ.21 ESPI v3.3, with an
implementation deadline of 1 November 2023. Toronto Hydro-Electric System Limited
is squarely inside that class.
x-apievangelist-version-gap: >-
This document declares ESPI 4.0. The Ontario mandate is ESPI v3.3. Do not assume
the two are interchangeable when integrating with an Ontario distributor.
x-apievangelist-access-gate: >-
application-approval. A third party must submit an online application through
Toronto Hydro's third-party portal at https://torontoonboarding.savagedata.com/,
complete a connectivity test, and comply with the Third Party Terms and Conditions
for Green Button Connect My Data at
https://www.torontohydro.com/green-button/third-party-terms — which also require
the third party to carry Commercial General Liability, Professional Liability,
Property Damage and Workman's Compensation insurance and to name Toronto Hydro as
an additional insured. Connection details are issued only after approval; Toronto
Hydro states "Additional information will be provided in the third-party portal".
There is no self-serve signup, no published pricing and no sandbox.
- target: $.servers
update:
x-apievangelist-note: >-
The single declared server is the Green Button Alliance sandbox, NOT a Toronto
Hydro host. No Toronto Hydro ESPI base URI is published anywhere.
api.torontohydro.com, docs.torontohydro.com, developer.torontohydro.com and
data.torontohydro.com do not resolve at all (2026-07-27).
- target: $.components.securitySchemes.oauth2
update:
x-apievangelist-note: >-
The scopes object is empty in the source document; no scope names were invented.
Toronto Hydro publishes no scope reference and serves no OpenID Connect discovery
document — https://www.torontohydro.com/.well-known/openid-configuration returns
404 and every /.well-known/ 200 on the vendor onboarding host is a Blazor SPA
shell that matches an invented-path control probe. Toronto Hydro's own Connect My
Data Customer Guide describes the redirect-and-consent half of the flow: the third
party emails the customer a link or redirects them to Toronto Hydro's
authentication page, the customer signs in to their Toronto Hydro online account
(Option A) or uses an alternate consent method if they have no account (Option B),
then lands on the authorization page.
- target: $.paths['/espi/1_1/resource/UsagePoint'].get
update:
x-apievangelist-note: >-
Pagination in ESPI is Atom-style: start-index (1-indexed) plus max-results, with
published-min/published-max and updated-min/updated-max RFC 3339 time filters and a
depth control. Responses are application/atom+xml feeds, not JSON.
- target: $.paths['/espi/1_1/resource/Authorization'].get
update:
x-apievangelist-note: >-
The Authorization resource is where the Toronto Hydro consent contract actually
lives. Toronto Hydro's Third Party Terms state that a customer may revoke
authorization independently at any time and at their sole discretion, and that
Connect My Data is unavailable on or after the date a customer's account is closed
— including their final billing period. Treat a disappearing or revoked
Authorization as an expected steady state, not a defect.
- target: $.paths['/espi/1_1/resource/Batch/Bulk/{bulkId}'].get
update:
x-apievangelist-note: >-
Bulk transfer is the asynchronous path — a 202 Accepted is a normal, expected
outcome here and the client must be prepared to poll rather than treat it as an
error.
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