Bonneville Power Administration

The Bonneville Power Administration (BPA) is a federal agency within the U.S. Department of Energy that markets wholesale electrical power from federal hydroelectric projects in the Pacific Northwest. BPA also operates and maintains about three-quarters of the high-voltage transmission in the Pacific Northwest. The agency provides publicly available GIS data, energy statistics, and operational data through its data hub and web services.

Bonneville Power Administration publishes 6 APIs on the APIs.io network, including Customers API, Hydrology API, Right of Way API, and 3 more. Tagged areas include Energy, Federal-Government, GIS, Hydroelectric, and Pacific Northwest.

Bonneville Power Administration’s developer surface includes engineering blog, authentication, documentation, API reference, support, and 25 more developer resources.

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41.3/100 developing ▬ flat Agent 30/100 agent ready Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0

AccessFreemium

2 APIs 2 Features 3 Use Cases

Energy Federal-Government GIS HydroelectricPacific NorthwestPower Transmission Wind

Kin Score

Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0

Composite quality — 41.3/100 · developing

Contract Quality 10.0 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 6.4 / 17

Access Clarity 3.1 / 17

Operational Transparency 3.5 / 11

Contract Governance 1.9 / 10

Discoverability 5.8 / 9

Regulatory Posture 8.1 / 15

Agent readiness — 30/100 · agent ready

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 6 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 9 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8

Request/Response Examples 7 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 5 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 4 / 4

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

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APIs 8

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

BPA GIS Data Hub API

The BPA GIS Data Hub provides publicly available geospatial data from Bonneville Power Administration. The hub is built on ArcGIS and supports data downloads in multiple formats...

BPA Wind and Solar Generation Data

BPA publishes real-time and historical wind and solar generation data for the Balancing Authority area. Data includes total wind generation, total solar generation, net generati...

Bonneville Power Administration Customers API

The Customers API from Bonneville Power Administration — 3 operation(s) for customers.

Bonneville Power Administration Hydrology API

The Hydrology API from Bonneville Power Administration — 1 operation(s) for hydrology.

Bonneville Power Administration Right of Way API

The Right of Way API from Bonneville Power Administration — 1 operation(s) for right of way.

Bonneville Power Administration Service Area API

The Service Area API from Bonneville Power Administration — 1 operation(s) for service area.

Bonneville Power Administration Transmission API

The Transmission API from Bonneville Power Administration — 2 operation(s) for transmission.

Bonneville Power Administration Data Search API

BPA's ArcGIS Hub site publishes a real OGC API Records catalog search over the agency's open geospatial data — 17 operations across collections, items, queryables, related and c...

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Open Collections 7

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

API Collection

OPEN COLLECTION

Bonneville Power Administration GIS Hub Customers API

OPEN COLLECTION

Bonneville Power Administration GIS Hub Customers Hydrology API

OPEN COLLECTION

Bonneville Power Administration GIS Hub Customers Right of Way API

OPEN COLLECTION

Bonneville Power Administration GIS Hub Customers Service Area API

OPEN COLLECTION

Bonneville Power Administration GIS Hub Customers Transmission API

OPEN COLLECTION

Bonneville Power Administration GIS Hub API

OPEN COLLECTION

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Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Bonneville Power Administration Plans Pricing

0 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Bonneville Power Administration Rate Limits

1 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Bonneville Power Administration Finops

FINOPS

Features 2

Notable capabilities this provider offers.

GeoServices API

Open Data Downloads

Security Posture 3

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Bonneville Power Administration Authentication

0 schemes

SECURITY

Bonneville Power Administration Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC

SECURITY

Bonneville Power Administration Vulnerability Disclosure

Hackerone

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

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Bonneville Power Administration Agentic Access

8 operations

8 operations · 0 acting

AGENTIC

Use Cases 3

What developers build with this provider.

GIS Data Analysis

Renewable Energy Monitoring

Transmission System Monitoring

Resources

Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

CustomerPortal

CustomerPortal

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

APIReference

APIReference

Agent Surfaces 4

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

LLMsTxt

LLMsTxt

AgentSkill

AgentSkill

X-MCPServerCandidate

X-MCPServerCandidate

Design & Contract 6

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Conventions

ErrorCatalog

Lifecycle

Conformance

DataModel

JSONLD

Access & Security 4

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Authentication

Authentication

Security

Security

VulnerabilityDisclosure

VulnerabilityDisclosure

Operate 3

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Contact

Contact

RateLimits

RateLimits

Support

Support

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans

Plans

FinOps

FinOps

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

Company 4

The organization behind the API

Blog

Blog

LinkedIn

Website

Website

About

About

Other 3

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

OpenData

OpenData

DataDownload

DataDownload

DataCatalog

DataCatalog

Source (apis.yml)

aid: bonneville-power-administration
name: Bonneville Power Administration
description: The Bonneville Power Administration (BPA) is a federal agency within the U.S. Department of Energy that markets
  wholesale electrical power from federal hydroelectric projects in the Pacific Northwest. BPA also operates and maintains
  about three-quarters of the high-voltage transmission in the Pacific Northwest. The agency provides publicly available GIS
  data, energy statistics, and operational data through its data hub and web services.
type: Index
deliveryModel:
  model: unknown
  open_source: false
  commercial: false
  callable_host: true
  label: Delivery model not determined — needs a product licence on record
  confidence: low
  source:
  - openapi
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Freemium
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/bonneville-power-administration.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/bonneville-power-administration/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2024-11-25'
modified: '2026-09-06'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
tags:
- Energy
- Federal-Government
- GIS
- Hydroelectric
- Pacific Northwest
- Power
- Transmission
- Wind
tags_raw:
- Energy
- Federal Government
- GIS
- Hydroelectric
- Pacific Northwest
- Power
- Transmission
- Wind
apis:
- aid: bonneville-power-administration:gis-data-api
  name: BPA GIS Data Hub API
  tags:
  - ArcGIS
  - GeoServices
  - GIS
  - Government
  - Geospatial
  - WFS
  - WMS
  humanURL: https://data-bpagis.hub.arcgis.com
  baseURL: https://services3.arcgis.com/Iz3chmSt4P7oOoZy/arcgis/rest
  properties:
  - url: https://data-bpagis.hub.arcgis.com
    type: Documentation
  - url: https://data-bpagis.hub.arcgis.com/datasets/998ba568128d46c0a38e285235b55d0c_0/geoservice
    type: GeoService
  description: The BPA GIS Data Hub provides publicly available geospatial data from Bonneville Power Administration. The
    hub is built on ArcGIS and supports data downloads in multiple formats including CSV, KML, GeoJSON, GeoTIFF, and PNG.
    Developer API access is available through GeoServices (ArcGIS REST API), WMS (Web Map Service), and WFS (Web Feature Service)
    endpoints. Datasets include BPA service area boundaries, transmission infrastructure, and energy facility data.
- aid: bonneville-power-administration:wind-solar-data
  name: BPA Wind and Solar Generation Data
  tags:
  - Energy
  - Government
  - Renewable Energy
  - Solar
  - Statistics
  - Wind
  humanURL: https://transmission.bpa.gov/business/operations/Wind/
  baseURL: https://transmission.bpa.gov/business/operations/wind
  properties:
  - url: https://transmission.bpa.gov/business/operations/Wind/
    type: Documentation
  - url: https://transmission.bpa.gov/business/operations/Wind/twndbspt.aspx
    type: DataAPI
  - url: https://transmission.bpa.gov/business/operations/wind/baltwg.txt
    type: DataFeed
    name: Balancing Authority load and total wind generation — plain text, 5-minute intervals, rolling 7 days
  description: BPA publishes real-time and historical wind and solar generation data for the Balancing Authority area. Data
    includes total wind generation, total solar generation, net generation, and load data available for download. The data
    is used for grid operations planning and renewable energy tracking.
- aid: bonneville-power-administration:bonneville-power-administration-customers-api
  name: Bonneville Power Administration Customers API
  description: The Customers API from Bonneville Power Administration — 3 operation(s) for customers.
  humanURL: https://data-bpagis.hub.arcgis.com
  baseURL: https://services3.arcgis.com/Iz3chmSt4P7oOoZy/arcgis/rest
  tags:
  - Customers
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/bonneville-power-administration-customers-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/bonneville-power-administration-customers-api-overlay.yaml
- aid: bonneville-power-administration:bonneville-power-administration-hydrology-api
  name: Bonneville Power Administration Hydrology API
  description: The Hydrology API from Bonneville Power Administration — 1 operation(s) for hydrology.
  humanURL: https://data-bpagis.hub.arcgis.com
  baseURL: https://services3.arcgis.com/Iz3chmSt4P7oOoZy/arcgis/rest
  tags:
  - Hydrology
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/bonneville-power-administration-hydrology-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/bonneville-power-administration-hydrology-api-overlay.yaml
- aid: bonneville-power-administration:bonneville-power-administration-right-of-way-api
  name: Bonneville Power Administration Right of Way API
  description: The Right of Way API from Bonneville Power Administration — 1 operation(s) for right of way.
  humanURL: https://data-bpagis.hub.arcgis.com
  baseURL: https://services3.arcgis.com/Iz3chmSt4P7oOoZy/arcgis/rest
  tags:
  - Right of Way
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/bonneville-power-administration-right-of-way-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/bonneville-power-administration-right-of-way-api-overlay.yaml
- aid: bonneville-power-administration:bonneville-power-administration-service-area-api
  name: Bonneville Power Administration Service Area API
  description: The Service Area API from Bonneville Power Administration — 1 operation(s) for service area.
  humanURL: https://data-bpagis.hub.arcgis.com
  baseURL: https://services3.arcgis.com/Iz3chmSt4P7oOoZy/arcgis/rest
  tags:
  - Service Area
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/bonneville-power-administration-service-area-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/bonneville-power-administration-service-area-api-overlay.yaml
- aid: bonneville-power-administration:bonneville-power-administration-transmission-api
  name: Bonneville Power Administration Transmission API
  description: The Transmission API from Bonneville Power Administration — 2 operation(s) for transmission.
  humanURL: https://data-bpagis.hub.arcgis.com
  baseURL: https://services3.arcgis.com/Iz3chmSt4P7oOoZy/arcgis/rest
  tags:
  - Transmission
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/bonneville-power-administration-transmission-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/bonneville-power-administration-transmission-api-overlay.yaml
- aid: bonneville-power-administration:bonneville-power-administration-data-search-api
  name: Bonneville Power Administration Data Search API
  description: BPA's ArcGIS Hub site publishes a real OGC API Records catalog search over the agency's open geospatial data
    — 17 operations across collections, items, queryables, related and connected records, aggregations, and a GeoService projection
    of any collection. The service declares nine OGC conformance classes about itself (API Common Parts 1 and 2, Features
    Part 1 core/geojson/oas30, Records Part 1 core/json) and ships its own OpenAPI 3.0 definition. No credential is required.
  humanURL: https://data-bpagis.hub.arcgis.com/api/search/definition/
  baseURL: https://data-bpagis.hub.arcgis.com
  tags:
  - Catalog
  - DCAT
  - GIS
  - Geospatial
  - Government
  - OGC API
  - Open Data
  - Records
  - Search
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/bonneville-power-administration-data-search-api-openapi.yml
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://data-bpagis.hub.arcgis.com/api/search/definition/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://data-bpagis.hub.arcgis.com/api/search/v1
  - type: Conformance
    url: conformance/bonneville-power-administration-hub-search-conformance.json
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/bonneville-power-administration-data-search-api-overlay.yaml
  - type: DataCatalog
    url: https://data-bpagis.hub.arcgis.com/data.json
    name: DCAT-US 1.1 catalog — 21 published BPA datasets
common:
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/bonneville-power-administration-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/bonneville-power-administration-domain-security.yml
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.bpa.gov/rss-feeds/news-feed-no-cp
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/bonnevillepower
- type: Website
  url: https://www.bpa.gov
- type: About
  url: https://www.bpa.gov/about/
- type: OpenData
  url: https://data-bpagis.hub.arcgis.com
- type: DataDownload
  url: https://transmission.bpa.gov/business/operations/Wind/
- type: CustomerPortal
  url: https://www.bpa.gov/energy-and-services/
- type: Contact
  url: https://www.bpa.gov/about/who-we-are/contact-form
- name: Use Cases
  type: UseCases
  data:
  - name: GIS Data Analysis
    url: https://data-bpagis.hub.arcgis.com
    features:
    - Geospatial Data Download
    - Map Visualization
    - Service Area Data
    - Transmission Infrastructure Mapping
    - Energy Facility Locations
  - name: Renewable Energy Monitoring
    url: https://transmission.bpa.gov/business/operations/Wind/
    features:
    - Wind Generation Data
    - Solar Generation Data
    - Real-Time Generation Monitoring
    - Historical Data Access
    - Grid Load Tracking
  - name: Transmission System Monitoring
    url: https://www.bpa.gov/energy-and-services/transmission/
    features:
    - Transmission Availability
    - Hourly Firm Data
    - System Load Monitoring
    - Grid Operations Data
- name: Features
  type: Features
  data:
  - name: GeoServices API
    url: https://data-bpagis.hub.arcgis.com
    features:
    - ArcGIS REST API
    - GeoJSON Export
    - CSV Export
    - KML Export
    - GeoTIFF Export
    - Web Map Service (WMS)
    - Web Feature Service (WFS)
  - name: Open Data Downloads
    url: https://data-bpagis.hub.arcgis.com
    features:
    - CSV Download
    - JSON Download
    - GeoJSON Download
    - Shapefile Download
    - KML Download
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/bonneville-power-administration-authentication.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/bonneville-power-administration-conventions.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/bonneville-power-administration-problem-types.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/bonneville-power-administration-lifecycle.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/bonneville-power-administration-conformance.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/bonneville-power-administration-data-model.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/bonneville-power-administration-llms.txt
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
- type: X-MCPServerCandidate
  url: mcp/bonneville-power-administration-mcp.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/bonneville-power-administration-rate-limits.yml
- type: Plans
  url: plans/bonneville-power-administration-plans-pricing.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/bonneville-power-administration-finops.yml
- type: Security
  url: security/bonneville-power-administration-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
  name: Vulnerability Disclosure Policy (DOE, linked from the bpa.gov footer)
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/bonneville-power-administration-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: DataCatalog
  url: https://data-bpagis.hub.arcgis.com/data.json
  name: DCAT-US 1.1 catalog — 21 published BPA datasets
- type: JSONLD
  url: json-ld/bonneville-power-administration-dcat-us-catalog.json
- type: Documentation
  url: https://data-bpagis.hub.arcgis.com
- type: APIReference
  url: https://data-bpagis.hub.arcgis.com/api/search/definition/
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.bpa.gov/about/who-we-are/privacy
- type: Support
  url: https://www.bpa.gov/about/who-we-are/contact-form
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kinlane@gmail.com
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-09-06'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 24
  pass: local-v3

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