The Canada Energy Regulator (CER / Régie de l'énergie du Canada) is Canada's federal energy regulator, created by the Canadian Energy Regulator Act in 2019 to replace the National Energy Board. Its remit is the interprovincial and international layer of the energy system: pipelines and power lines that cross a provincial or national border, imports and exports of oil, natural gas, NGLs, LNG and electricity, oil and gas activity on frontier and offshore lands, and offshore renewable energy projects. It does not regulate the distribution utilities that meter and bill Canadian households — electricity and gas distribution is provincial, which is why the only consumer energy data mandate in the country, Ontario's Green Button regulation O. Reg. 633/21, is administered by the Ontario Energy Board and not by the CER. The CER's API posture is the cleanest possible statement of that split: it is genuinely open on market and system data and entirely absent on consumer data. It publishes 83 datasets and 944 resources on the Government of Canada Open Government Portal, every one of them under the Open Government Licence – Canada, 894 of them CSV files served anonymously from its own www.cer-rec.gc.ca/open/ tree, all of it queryable without a key through the portal's CKAN Action API. It operates its own ArcGIS Online organization whose 23 hosted feature services — pipeline systems, incidents, provincial pipeline status, resource areas, refineries — answered anonymous ArcGIS REST queries on 2026-07-27, and it publishes an Environmental and Socio-economic Assessments layer through the Federal Geospatial Platform as both an Esri ArcGIS REST MapServer and an OGC WMS 1.3.0 service. It also open-sources the front ends for its own visualizations on GitHub. What it does not have is a developer portal, an OpenAPI definition, an API key, a rate-limit policy, or a single machine-readable path to an individual customer's usage or billing data. No mandate obliges it to have one. Home market Canada.
Canada Energy Regulator publishes 3 APIs on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Energy, Canada, Regulation, Government, and Pipelines.
Canada Energy Regulator’s developer surface includes documentation, API reference, support, engineering blog, authentication, and 19 more developer resources.
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The Canada Energy Regulator operates its own ArcGIS Online organization (portal neb-gis.maps.arcgis.com, organization id vNzamREXvX2WcX6d) and hosts 23 public feature services o...
The CER's Environmental and Socio-economic Assessments (ESA) layer, published through the Government of Canada's Federal Geospatial Platform at maps-cartes.services.geo.ca under...
The Canada Energy Regulator publishes no API of its own for tabular data, but all of its open data is machine-readable through the Government of Canada Open Government Portal's ...
aid: canada-energy-regulator
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/canada-energy-regulator/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
name: Canada Energy Regulator
kind: company
description: 'The Canada Energy Regulator (CER / Régie de l''énergie du Canada) is Canada''s federal energy regulator, created
by the Canadian Energy Regulator Act in 2019 to replace the National Energy Board. Its remit is the interprovincial and
international layer of the energy system: pipelines and power lines that cross a provincial or national border, imports
and exports of oil, natural gas, NGLs, LNG and electricity, oil and gas activity on frontier and offshore lands, and offshore
renewable energy projects. It does not regulate the distribution utilities that meter and bill Canadian households — electricity
and gas distribution is provincial, which is why the only consumer energy data mandate in the country, Ontario''s Green
Button regulation O. Reg. 633/21, is administered by the Ontario Energy Board and not by the CER. The CER''s API posture
is the cleanest possible statement of that split: it is genuinely open on market and system data and entirely absent on
consumer data. It publishes 83 datasets and 944 resources on the Government of Canada Open Government Portal, every one
of them under the Open Government Licence – Canada, 894 of them CSV files served anonymously from its own www.cer-rec.gc.ca/open/
tree, all of it queryable without a key through the portal''s CKAN Action API. It operates its own ArcGIS Online organization
whose 23 hosted feature services — pipeline systems, incidents, provincial pipeline status, resource areas, refineries —
answered anonymous ArcGIS REST queries on 2026-07-27, and it publishes an Environmental and Socio-economic Assessments layer
through the Federal Geospatial Platform as both an Esri ArcGIS REST MapServer and an OGC WMS 1.3.0 service. It also open-sources
the front ends for its own visualizations on GitHub. What it does not have is a developer portal, an OpenAPI definition,
an API key, a rate-limit policy, or a single machine-readable path to an individual customer''s usage or billing data. No
mandate obliges it to have one. Home market Canada.'
image: https://www.cer-rec.gc.ca/global/images/logo_cer_en.png
tags:
- Energy
- Canada
- Regulation
- Government
- Pipelines
- Electricity
- Natural Gas
- Crude Oil
- Energy Markets
- Open Data
- Geospatial
created: '2026-07-27'
modified: '2026-07-27'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: canada-energy-regulator:cer-arcgis-feature-services
name: CER ArcGIS Online Feature Services
description: The Canada Energy Regulator operates its own ArcGIS Online organization (portal neb-gis.maps.arcgis.com, organization
id vNzamREXvX2WcX6d) and hosts 23 public feature services on it. This is the one genuinely CER-operated machine-readable
API surface found in this review. The services directory, every FeatureServer descriptor and the /query operation all
answered anonymous HTTPS requests on 2026-07-27 with no key, no signup and no terms click-through. Layers include CER_Pipeline_Systems_WGS84_view,
Incident_Data_English_20191007_View (1,899 features confirmed by a returnCountOnly query), Prov_Pipe_Status (43 features),
Prov_Pipe_Type, Oil_and_Gas_Resource_Area, Refinery, Western_Canada_Sedimentary_Basin, Pipelines_Profile_Links_EN_view
and both English and French incident layers. The contract is Esri's ArcGIS REST API, not OpenAPI; no OpenAPI, Swagger
or /api-docs document is published for it. This service backs the public CER Interactive Pipeline Map.
humanURL: https://www.cer-rec.gc.ca/en/safety-environment/industry-performance/interactive-pipeline/index.html
baseURL: https://services5.arcgis.com/vNzamREXvX2WcX6d/arcgis/rest/services
tags:
- Geospatial
- Pipelines
- Incidents
- Open Data
- ArcGIS
properties:
- type: APIReference
url: https://services5.arcgis.com/vNzamREXvX2WcX6d/arcgis/rest/services?f=json
- type: Documentation
url: https://www.cer-rec.gc.ca/en/safety-environment/industry-performance/interactive-pipeline/index.html
- type: Documentation
url: https://neb-gis.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=2d11fd4e6a7a4f4ba7fe6bdf51ae52de
- type: Website
url: https://neb-gis.maps.arcgis.com/
- type: APIReference
name: ArcGIS REST services directory (captured verbatim 2026-07-27)
url: contracts/canada-energy-regulator-arcgis-services.json
- type: JSONSchema
name: Attribute schemas for all 25 CER ArcGIS feature layers (derived)
url: json-schema/canada-energy-regulator-arcgis-layers.schema.json
- type: DataModel
url: data-model/canada-energy-regulator-data-model.yml
- aid: canada-energy-regulator:cer-assessments-map-service
name: CER Assessments Map Service (Federal Geospatial Platform)
description: 'The CER''s Environmental and Socio-economic Assessments (ESA) layer, published through the Government of Canada''s
Federal Geospatial Platform at maps-cartes.services.geo.ca under the NRCan folder and served in English and French. Two
protocols are exposed for the same data and both answered anonymously on 2026-07-27: an Esri ArcGIS REST MapServer (?f=json
returned a service description naming the CER as the data owner) and an OGC WMS 1.3.0 endpoint whose GetCapabilities document
parsed as valid XML. This is CER data on federal shared infrastructure rather than a CER-operated host, and it is the
only place in this review where an open, vendor-neutral international standard (OGC WMS) is used.'
humanURL: https://open.canada.ca/data/en/dataset/039fbd92-43c2-4805-b210-d65703712e37
baseURL: https://maps-cartes.services.geo.ca/server_serveur/rest/services/NRCan/CER_Assessments_EN/MapServer
tags:
- Geospatial
- Assessments
- WMS
- OGC
- Open Data
properties:
- type: APIReference
url: https://maps-cartes.services.geo.ca/server_serveur/rest/services/NRCan/CER_Assessments_EN/MapServer?f=json
- type: Documentation
url: https://maps-cartes.services.geo.ca/server_serveur/services/NRCan/CER_Assessments_EN/MapServer/WMSServer?request=GetCapabilities&service=WMS&version=1.3.0
- type: Documentation
url: https://open.canada.ca/data/en/dataset/039fbd92-43c2-4805-b210-d65703712e37
- type: APIReference
name: ArcGIS MapServer descriptor (captured verbatim 2026-07-27)
url: contracts/canada-energy-regulator-cer-assessments-mapserver.json
- type: APIReference
name: OGC WMS 1.3.0 GetCapabilities (captured verbatim 2026-07-27)
url: contracts/canada-energy-regulator-cer-assessments-wms-capabilities.xml
- aid: canada-energy-regulator:cer-open-data-ckan
name: CER Open Data via the Open Government Portal CKAN API
description: 'The Canada Energy Regulator publishes no API of its own for tabular data, but all of its open data is machine-readable
through the Government of Canada Open Government Portal''s CKAN Action API, which is operated by the Treasury Board of
Canada Secretariat and not by the CER. Filtering that API to the CER''s organization id A3EE9522-882F-47B0-BA7D-83420DC8577C
returned 83 datasets carrying 944 resources on 2026-07-27 — 894 CSV, 36 HTML, 8 PDF, 2 XLSX, 2 Esri REST and 2 WMS — every
one licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada. Coverage is the CER''s regulatory and market record: crude oil,
natural gas, NGL, LNG and electricity imports and exports, pipeline throughput, capacity and tolls, pipeline financial
information, incidents, conditions, compliance and enforcement, the regulated company list, frontier production statistics
and the Canada''s Energy Future projection series. Only one of the 944 resources is loaded into the CKAN datastore, so
datastore_search row-level querying is effectively unavailable; the real access pattern is metadata over the API and then
bulk CSV download from https://www.cer-rec.gc.ca/open/, which was confirmed serving a 10,110-byte LNG exports file anonymously.'
humanURL: https://open.canada.ca/data/en/organization/cer-rec
baseURL: https://open.canada.ca/data/api/3/action
tags:
- Open Data
- CKAN
- Energy Markets
- Imports and Exports
- Statistics
properties:
- type: APIReference
url: https://open.canada.ca/data/api/3/action/help_show?name=package_search
- type: Documentation
url: https://open.canada.ca/data/en/organization/cer-rec
- type: Documentation
url: https://www.cer-rec.gc.ca/en/about/open-government/
- type: Documentation
url: https://www.cer-rec.gc.ca/en/data-analysis/
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
url: security/canada-energy-regulator-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
url: https://www.cer-rec.gc.ca/en/
- type: Documentation
url: https://www.cer-rec.gc.ca/en/data-analysis/
- type: Documentation
url: https://www.cer-rec.gc.ca/en/about/open-government/
- type: Documentation
url: https://www.cer-rec.gc.ca/en/data-visualization/
- type: APIReference
url: https://open.canada.ca/data/api/3/action/help_show?name=package_search
- type: GitHubOrganization
url: https://github.com/CER-REC
- type: GitHubRepository
url: https://github.com/CER-REC/pipeline-profiles
- type: GitHubRepository
url: https://github.com/CER-REC/conditions
- type: GitHubRepository
url: https://github.com/CER-REC/incidents-pipeliniers_pipeline-incidents
- type: TermsOfService
url: https://www.cer-rec.gc.ca/en/terms-conditions.html
- type: PrivacyPolicy
url: https://www.cer-rec.gc.ca/en/terms-conditions.html#s1
- type: Support
url: https://www.cer-rec.gc.ca/en/about/contact/index.html
- type: Blog
url: https://www.cer-rec.gc.ca/en/about/news-room/index.html
- type: License
name: Open Government Licence - Canada
url: https://open.canada.ca/en/open-government-licence-canada
- type: Authentication
url: authentication/canada-energy-regulator-authentication.yml
- type: Conventions
url: conventions/canada-energy-regulator-conventions.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
url: errors/canada-energy-regulator-problem-types.yml
- type: Lifecycle
url: lifecycle/canada-energy-regulator-lifecycle.yml
- type: Conformance
url: conformance/canada-energy-regulator-conformance.yml
- type: DataModel
url: data-model/canada-energy-regulator-data-model.yml
- type: Vocabulary
name: Canada Energy Regulator energy glossary (356 terms)
url: vocabulary/canada-energy-regulator-glossary.yml
- type: JSONSchema
url: json-schema/canada-energy-regulator-arcgis-layers.schema.json
- type: LLMsTxt
url: llms/canada-energy-regulator-llms.txt
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