# Canada Energy Regulator

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/canada-energy-regulator/  
**Website:** https://www.cer-rec.gc.ca/en/  
**APIs profiled:** 3

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.

## Kin Score — 27.1 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-08-17 under rubric 0.11.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 27.1).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 92.6 |
| Contract Quality | 9.7 |
| Governance | 22.9 |
| Operational Transparency | 5.3 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 32.6 |
| Commercial Clarity | 21.1 |

Regulatory layer — **Energy & Utilities**: 33.8 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 16.2 (agent-aware)

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

## APIs (3)

- **CER ArcGIS Online Feature Services** — 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...
- **CER Assessments Map Service (Federal Geospatial Platform)** — 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...
- **CER Open Data via the Open Government Portal CKAN API** — 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 ...

## Security (2)

- **Canada Energy Regulator Authentication** — none · 0 schemes
- **Canada Energy Regulator Domain Security** — TLSv1.2 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC

## Tags

Energy, Canada, Regulation, Government, Pipelines, Electricity, Natural Gas, Crude Oil, Energy Markets, Open Data, Geospatial

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