# FERC

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

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) is the independent United States federal agency that regulates the interstate transmission of electricity, natural gas, and oil, licenses hydropower projects, and oversees the wholesale power markets run by the seven ISOs and RTOs. FERC sits on the wholesale side of the US energy value chain — it does not regulate retail utility service, retail rates, or the customer relationship, which remain with the fifty state public utility commissions. That jurisdictional line defines FERC's API posture exactly. FERC operates a real, self-serve open data API at api.data.ferc.gov, documented at data.ferc.gov with a published OpenAPI 3.0 description, a free 40-character API key issued from a sign-up form, a 1,000-request-per-hour rate limit, and X-Api-Key header or api_key query authentication on the api.data.gov API Umbrella stack — genuinely open market and regulatory data covering the Market-Based Rate Database, FERC Form No. 552 natural gas transactions, FERC Form 556 qualifying facility certifications, Company Registration, Annual Charges, Information Collections Management, and the NEPA infrastructure schedule. FERC also runs a credentialed OAuth2 XBRL submission API at ecollection.ferc.gov for the mandated eForms filings (Form Nos. 1, 2, 3-Q, 6, 60, 552, 714). What FERC does NOT do is any part of consumer energy data — there is no Green Button, no ESPI, no consumer data right, and no individual customer usage or billing API anywhere in FERC's surface, because retail customer data is outside its statutory reach. FERC is therefore an open-market-data, zero-consumer-data regulator, and it publishes a better documented API than most of the utilities it indirectly touches.

## Kin Score — 51.5 / 100 (developing)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 51.5).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 87.0 |
| Contract Quality | 32.4 |
| Governance | 16.7 |
| Contract Governance | 16.7 |
| Operational Transparency | 47.4 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 68.5 |
| Commercial Clarity | 34.2 |
| Access Clarity | 34.2 |

Regulatory layer — **Energy & Utilities**: 59.5 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 46.4 (agent-ready)

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

## APIs (2)

- **FERC Open Data API** — FERC's public open data API, serving the same data assets and datasets published in the data.ferc.gov Data Catalog. A Data-Assets endpoint returns the catalog and the dataset ID...
- **FERC eForms XBRL Submission API** — The machine-to-machine API behind FERC's mandated eForms. Credentialed filers exchange their FERC eRegistration and Company Registration username and password for a bearer token...

## Agentic access (1)

- **Ferc Agentic Access** — 18 operations · 2 acting · 1 human-in-the-loop

## Security (3)

- **Ferc Authentication** — apiKey/oauth2/http · 4 schemes
- **Ferc Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC
- **Ferc Vulnerability Disclosure** — Hackerone · contact published

## Tags

Energy, United States, Energy Markets, Electricity, Natural Gas, Grid, Regulator, Government, Open Data, Wholesale Power Markets, Hydropower, Oil Pipelines

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