# EIA

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/eia/  
**Website:** https://www.eia.gov  
**APIs profiled:** 2

The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) is the independent statistical and analytical agency within the U.S. Department of Energy, created by the Department of Energy Organization Act of 1977, that collects, analyzes, and disseminates energy information for the United States. EIA sits at the measurement layer of the American energy value chain rather than the operating layer - it does not generate, transmit, distribute, or retail energy, and it does not regulate anyone. Instead it compels the industry to report through mandatory survey forms (EIA-860, EIA-861, EIA-923, EIA-176, EIA-914, EIA-930 and dozens more) and then publishes the result as the reference statistics for electricity, natural gas, petroleum, coal, nuclear, renewables, emissions, and international energy. EIA's API posture is the strongest of any organization in this sector and a genuine benchmark for government data anywhere. The Open Data APIv2 at api.eia.gov/v2 is a fully RESTful, self-documenting, hierarchically routed API covering more than two million time series, described by a real downloadable OpenAPI 3.0.0 contract carrying 225 paths and 278 operations, opened by a free API key that is emailed automatically from a public registration form with no review, no accreditation, and no licence to sign. A companion bulk download facility at api.eia.gov/bulk serves the same data as manifest-indexed zip archives and requires no key at all. The split that defines this sector is absolute here. EIA's market, system, and grid data is wide open - hourly balancing-authority demand and interchange, wholesale and spot prices, generator-level capacity and operations - while EIA publishes no consumer energy data API of any kind. There is no Green Button, no ESPI, no Download My Data, no Connect My Data, no consent flow, and no customer usage or billing endpoint, because individual customer data is never collected by EIA in the first place; its surveys arrive already aggregated from utilities and are further protected by statutory confidentiality. EIA is therefore the clearest instance of the recurring finding in this series - a federal data agency that publishes a far better documented, far more accessible API than the regulated utilities whose numbers it reports.

## Kin Score — 51.6 / 100 (developing)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 51.6).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 75.9 |
| Contract Quality | 44.1 |
| Governance | 16.7 |
| Contract Governance | 16.7 |
| Operational Transparency | 57.9 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 66.1 |
| Commercial Clarity | 34.2 |
| Access Clarity | 34.2 |

Regulatory layer — **Energy & Utilities**: 41.9 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 39.1 (agent-ready)

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

## APIs (2)

- **EIA Open Data API (APIv2)** — EIA's public, fully RESTful open data API covering more than two million energy time series. Datasets are arranged in a discoverable tree - request a parent route such as /v2/el...
- **EIA Bulk Download Facility** — EIA's bulk data distribution surface, served from the same api.eia.gov host as APIv2 but requiring no API key whatsoever. A single manifest at /bulk/manifest.txt returns a JSON ...

## MCP servers (1)

- **No first-party MCP server; two community stdio servers over APIv2, plus a derived candidate tool set**

## Agentic access (1)

- **Eia Agentic Access** — 278 operations

## Security (3)

- **Eia Authentication** — apiKey · 1 scheme
- **Eia Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · DNSSEC · DMARC
- **Eia Vulnerability Disclosure** — security.txt · contact published

## Tags

Energy, United States, Energy Markets, Electricity, Natural Gas, Petroleum, Coal, Nuclear, Renewables, Grid, Emissions, Government, Open Data, Energy Statistics

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