# ATCO

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/atco/  
**Website:** https://www.atco.com/  
**APIs profiled:** 1

ATCO Ltd. (TSX: ACO.X) is a Calgary, Alberta diversified global corporation and the controlling shareholder of Canadian Utilities Limited, through which it runs the regulated energy businesses that make it one of western Canada's largest utility groups. It sits across several tiers of the value chain at once: ATCO Electric owns and operates electricity transmission and distribution across Alberta, ATCO Gas and ATCO Pipelines distribute and transmit natural gas in the province, ATCO EnPower builds storage, renewables and hydrogen assets, ATCO Australia operates gas distribution infrastructure in Western Australia, and ATCO Energy is a competitive retailer selling electricity, natural gas and home services to Alberta customers. Its API posture is the mirror image of the Ontario utilities: no consumer energy data mandate reaches it at all. Alberta has no Green Button regulation, ATCO is not on the Green Button Alliance member list, and it does not appear in the public Australian CDR energy data holder register — so there is no consumer data API, and a customer's usage and billing data lives only behind the My Account login on a Salesforce commerce portal. What ATCO does publish, unmandated and without any signup at all, is real open grid data: ATCO Electric's DER hosting capacity map is served from a public, anonymously queryable Esri ArcGIS REST feature service carrying 880,623 feeder segment features, linked directly from ATCO Electric's own micro-generation and grid-connection pages. Open grid data, closed consumer data, no developer portal, and no OpenAPI anywhere on the estate.

## Kin Score — 36.3 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 36.3).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 75.9 |
| Contract Quality | 54.8 |
| Governance | 16.7 |
| Contract Governance | 16.7 |
| Operational Transparency | 0.0 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 18.5 |
| Commercial Clarity | 27.6 |
| Access Clarity | 27.6 |

Regulatory layer — **Energy & Utilities**: 44.6 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 33.1 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | verified |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | derived |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Free · Anonymous, no signup (open grid data only) — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: free, trial: no (confidence: high).

## APIs (1)

- **ATCO Electric Hosting Capacity Feature Service** — ATCO Electric's distributed energy resource (DER) hosting capacity data, published as a public Esri ArcGIS REST feature service and surfaced through the "DER HOSTING CAPACITY MA...

## MCP servers (1)

- **Candidate MCP tool set (derived — ATCO publishes no MCP server)**

## Agentic access (1)

- **Atco Agentic Access** — 5 operations

## Security (2)

- **Atco Authentication** — 0 schemes
- **Atco Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC

## Tags

Energy, Canada, Utilities, Electricity, Gas, Grid, Distribution, Transmission, DER, Solar, Renewables, Open Data, Geospatial, Alberta

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/atco/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.