CPower

CPower Energy is a commercial and industrial (C&I) virtual power plant (VPP) operator that helps organizations monetize the flexibility of their energy assets through demand response and distributed energy resource (DER) programs. Its CPower CONNECT platform lets customers view, manage, and unlock revenue from energy assets while supporting grid reliability and sustainability goals. CPower serves data centers, crypto mining, healthcare, education, retail, commercial real estate, industrial operations, and the public sector, and has operated distributed energy programs across the U.S. since 2015. CPower was acquired by NRG Energy and operates a combined C&I VPP platform. This profile was surfaced as a portfolio-adjacent deep-tech lead and enriched by the API Evangelist pipeline; CPower publishes a customer portal and a security and compliance posture but no public developer API at this time.

CPower is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Deep Tech, Energy, Demand Response, and Virtual Power Plant.

CPower’s developer surface includes engineering blog, support, and 9 more developer resources.

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14.8/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Front door AI 2/6 trace saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-10-23 · rubric v0.25.0 · Show this score on your site →

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Company Deep Tech Energy Demand Response Virtual Power Plant Distributed Energy ResourcesGrid FlexibilitySustainability

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scored 2026-10-23 · rubric v0.25.0

Composite quality — 14.8/100 · emerging

Contract Quality 0.0 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 0.8 / 17

Access Clarity 7.4 / 17

Operational Transparency 0.0 / 11

Contract Governance 0.0 / 10

Discoverability 4.1 / 9

Regulatory Posture 2.3 / 15

Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Pagination 5 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

Regulatory Posture applies to this provider. Its tags matched the Energy & Utilities regime, so Regulatory Posture carries 15 points of the composite. If this regime is wrong for your business, say so on your provider repo — the applicability map is public and we will correct it.

Create-or-Update Ergonomics could not be measured. We hold no machine-readable contract for this provider to read, so there is nothing to measure a write surface against. Excluded rather than scored zero: never-measured and measured-empty are different facts. Publishing an OpenAPI is what makes this facet — and several others — scorable at all.

The six quality facets above are damped to 85 points between them, because the conditional facet above carries the other 15. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 85% of its nominal weight, not 100%. The full arithmetic is at apis.io/rating/.

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Markets this provider is in provisional

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Market	Position	Depth	Registered MCP server	Declares compatibility
LF Energy Projects and Members (grid, DER, EV charging open source)	undeclared	-	-	-

Registered MCP server and declares compatibility are report only — not weighted. Undeclared means we found nothing we can read, so there is no number: we never infer integrations.

Security Posture 2

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

Cpower Inc Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · DMARC

SECURITY

Cpower Inc Trust Center

ISO 27001:2013, SOC 2

SECURITY

Resources

Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Login

Access & Security 3

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

TrustCenter

TrustCenter

Compliance

Compliance

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support

Support

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

Company 3

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

About

About

Blog

Blog

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

ParentCompany

ParentCompany

Source (apis.yml)

aid: cpower-inc
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: false
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/cpower-inc.png
name: CPower
description: CPower Energy is a commercial and industrial (C&I) virtual power plant (VPP) operator that helps organizations
  monetize the flexibility of their energy assets through demand response and distributed energy resource (DER) programs.
  Its CPower CONNECT platform lets customers view, manage, and unlock revenue from energy assets while supporting grid reliability
  and sustainability goals. CPower serves data centers, crypto mining, healthcare, education, retail, commercial real estate,
  industrial operations, and the public sector, and has operated distributed energy programs across the U.S. since 2015. CPower
  was acquired by NRG Energy and operates a combined C&I VPP platform. This profile was surfaced as a portfolio-adjacent deep-tech
  lead and enriched by the API Evangelist pipeline; CPower publishes a customer portal and a security and compliance posture
  but no public developer API at this time.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/cpower-inc/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- bessemer-venture-partners
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-18'
tags:
- Company
- Deep Tech
- Energy
- Demand Response
- Virtual Power Plant
- Distributed Energy Resources
- Grid Flexibility
- Sustainability
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: ParentCompany
  url: https://apis.io/providers/nrg-energy/
  name: NRG Energy
  x-relationship: acquired
  x-evidence: CPower was acquired by NRG Energy and operates a combined C&I VPP platform.
- type: Website
  url: https://cpowerenergy.com/
- type: About
  url: https://cpowerenergy.com/who-we-are/
- type: Blog
  url: https://cpowerenergy.com/the-current/
- type: Support
  url: https://cpowerenergy.com/contact/
- type: Login
  url: https://portal.cpowercorp.com/
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://cpowerenergy.com/terms-conditions/
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://cpowerenergy.com/privacy-policy/
- type: TrustCenter
  url: https://cpowerenergy.com/cpower-high-level-security/
- type: Compliance
  url: https://cpowerenergy.com/cpower-high-level-security/
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/cpower-inc-domain-security.yml
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence
x-legal-name: CPower, Inc.

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