# Energy Information Administration

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/energy-information-administration/  
**Website:** https://www.eia.gov  
**APIs profiled:** 10

The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) is committed to its free and open data by making it available through an Application Programming Interface (API) and its open data tools. The EIA Open Data API v2 is multi-faceted and contains time-series datasets organized by the main energy categories, including electricity, natural gas, petroleum, coal, nuclear, renewables, total energy, international energy statistics, the State Energy Data System (SEDS), and CO2 emissions aggregates.

## Kin Score — 31.9 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 31.9).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 64.8 |
| Contract Quality | 53.8 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 10.5 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 23.8 |
| Commercial Clarity | 28.9 |
| Access Clarity | 28.9 |

Regulatory layer — **Government & Public Sector**: 22.2 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 34.7 (agent-ready)

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

## Access

Freemium · Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: freemium, trial: no (confidence: high).

## APIs (10)

- **Energy Information Administration CO2 Emissions API** — CO2 emissions aggregates by state and sector.
- **Energy Information Administration Coal API** — Coal production, shipments, consumption, and trade data.
- **Energy Information Administration Discovery API** — Browse the API tree to discover available routes, facets, and metadata.
- **Energy Information Administration Electricity API** — Electricity generation, retail sales, and balancing authority data.
- **Energy Information Administration International API** — International energy statistics and projections.
- **Energy Information Administration Natural Gas API** — Natural gas production, prices, storage, and trade data.
- **Energy Information Administration Nuclear API** — Nuclear plant generator outage data.
- **Energy Information Administration Petroleum API** — Crude oil reserves, refining, consumption, and stocks data.
- **Energy Information Administration SEDS API** — State Energy Data System.
- **Energy Information Administration Total Energy API** — Comprehensive energy summaries across all sources.

## Agentic access (1)

- **Energy Information Administration Agentic Access** — 13 operations

## Security (2)

- **Energy Information Administration Authentication** — apiKey · 1 scheme
- **Energy Information Administration Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · DNSSEC · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **Energy Information Administration Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Energy, Federal-Government, Open Data

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