# Centrica

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

Centrica plc is the FTSE-listed British energy and services group behind British Gas, the United Kingdom's largest household energy supplier, along with Bord Gais Energy in Ireland, Centrica Business Solutions, Centrica Energy (its wholesale power, gas and LNG trading arm) and the Hive connected-home brand. It sits across the whole value chain — upstream gas and storage at Rough, generation and battery flexibility, wholesale trading and route-to-market, retail supply to roughly ten million UK homes, and a field-service engineering business — after exiting North America with the sale of Direct Energy to NRG in January 2021 to refocus on the UK and Ireland. Its API posture is honestly closed: Britain mandated the smart-metering INFRASTRUCTURE (the licensed Smart DCC monopoly and the SMETS2 rollout) rather than a consumer data right, so Centrica has no Consumer Data Right, no Green Button and no standards-conformant consumer usage endpoint. The DESNZ non-domestic smart meter data access requirement that does bind it is discharged by a written request answered within ten working days, not by an API. Household consumers reach their own data only through the British Gas app and account login; business customers through the Energy360 DataView portal. The single publicly reachable developer surface found is the Centrica FieldOps Azure API Management developer portal — a partner field-operations platform in its development environment — and Centrica publishes no open grid or market data of its own, leaving that to NESO, Elexon and the DNOs.

## Kin Score — 54.9 / 100 (strong)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 54.9).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 87.0 |
| Contract Quality | 49.7 |
| Governance | 16.7 |
| Contract Governance | 16.7 |
| Operational Transparency | 44.7 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 49.4 |
| Commercial Clarity | 55.3 |
| Access Clarity | 55.3 |

Regulatory layer — **Energy & Utilities**: 52.7 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 36.5 (agent-ready)

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

## APIs (1)

- **Centrica FieldOps Identity API** — Token-issuing API on the Centrica FieldOps API Management platform, published on Centrica's Azure API Management developer portal. A single POST /oauth2/token operation exchange...

## MCP servers (1)

- **Centrica MCP Server** — Centrica publishes no MCP server. No hosted or remote server was found in the MCP registry, on npm under @modelcontextprotocol or any Centrica scope, in either Centrica GitHub o...

## Security (3)

- **Centrica Authentication** — apiKey · 2 schemes
- **Centrica Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC
- **Centrica Vulnerability Disclosure** — Hackerone · security.txt

## Plans (1)

- **Centrica Plans**

## Tags

Energy, United Kingdom, Utilities, Electricity, Gas, Smart Metering, Energy Retail, Energy Markets, Ireland, Field Service

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