Hydro-Québec

Hydro-Québec is the government-owned Crown corporation that generates, transmits and distributes almost all of the electricity consumed in Québec, Canada — a vertically integrated, near-monopoly utility running one of the largest hydroelectric fleets in the world and serving roughly 4.6 million customer accounts across the province. It sits at every point of the value chain at once, as generator, transmission owner, distributor and retailer, plus a cross-border exporter into the New England and New York markets. Its API posture is a clean split. Market and grid data is genuinely open — a public Opendatasoft-powered portal at donnees.hydroquebec.com serves 26 datasets (electricity demand and generation, imports and exports, outages, GHG emission factors, hydrometric and weather data, winter peak demand events, vegetation control) through a documented, anonymously callable REST API with a machine-readable OpenAPI 3.0.3 description and a DCAT catalog export, licensed CC BY-NC 4.0. Consumer data is closed — there is no documented customer-facing API, no Green Button Download My Data or Connect My Data service, and no third-party consent flow; a customer's own usage is reachable only by logging into the Espace client web portal. Québec has no consumer energy data right. Ontario's Green Button regulation (O. Reg. 633/21 under the Electricity Act, 1998) is province-specific and does not bind Hydro-Québec, and Canada has no national equivalent to Australia's Consumer Data Right energy regime. Open market data, closed consumer data, no mandate.

Hydro-Québec publishes 3 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network, including Catalog API, Dataset API, and 1 more. Tagged areas include Energy, Canada, Utilities, Electricity, and Grid.

The Hydro-Québec catalog on APIs.io includes 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

Hydro-Québec’s developer surface includes authentication, developer portal, documentation, API reference, getting-started guide, support, engineering blog, and 33 more developer resources.

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54.9/100 strong ▬ flat Agent 46/100 agent ready Heartbeat 100/100 alive saas Full breakdown ↓
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2 published contracts 1 MCP Servers 5 Agent Skills

Energy Canada Utilities Electricity Grid Energy Markets Renewables Open Data Demand Response Carbon

What this lets a business do 1

Business capabilities this provider's published APIs can perform, derived from its own contracts. Browse all capabilities →

Data & Reference Information Services

AE-230

CatalogDataset

GET /catalog/datasets GET /catalog/exports GET /catalog/exports/dcat{dcat_ap_format} GET /catalog/datasets/{dataset_id}/records

Kin Score

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scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0

Composite quality — 54.9/100 · strong

Contract Quality 12.2 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 11.2 / 17

Access Clarity 3.6 / 17

Operational Transparency 7.3 / 11

Contract Governance 1.9 / 10

Discoverability 6.4 / 9

Regulatory Posture 6.9 / 15

Agent readiness — 46/100 · agent ready

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 6 / 6

MCP Server 12 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 9 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8

Request/Response Examples 7 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 5 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 4 / 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

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

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Create-or-Update Ergonomics does not apply to this provider. The published contracts declare no write operations, and a read-only API cannot create-or-update. The facet is excluded from this provider's denominator entirely — not scored zero. A reference or data API is not deficient for being unable to upsert.

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Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):

A2A Agent Card +8 pts — a2a/-a2a.yml manifest, graded on conformance.grade against A2A 1.0.0
Registration Without a Human +6 pts — a `registration_endpoint` in the served RFC 8414 / OIDC discovery document
Delegated User Identity +6 pts — a served discovery document listing authorization_code in grant_types_supported (served), else an oauth2 authorizationCode flow or openIdConnect declared in an OpenAPI (documented)
Typed Event Surface +6 pts — AsyncAPI document, OR webhooks/callbacks objects in the as-published OpenAPI, OR common[].type includes Webhooks
Protected Resource Metadata +5 pts — a served /.well-known/oauth-protected-resource carrying `resource` (documented), and naming its authorization_servers (verified)
Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document +5 pts — a parsing /.well-known/ucp.json or acp.json declaring a version and at least one service, OR (0.27) a live x402 payment challenge from _data/x402-adoption.json — `self` when its endpoints are on the provider's own domain, `platform` when they are on a vendor's

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Kin Score — facets with the most composite points still available (weight × headroom):

Access Clarity scores 21.1 — up to +15.8 composite points
Contract Quality scores 57.2 — up to +10.7 composite points
Contract Governance scores 18.2 — up to +9.8 composite points

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Markets this provider is in provisional

The Kin Score Market layer reads a provider inside its market: its position, and how deep its integrations go. Depth is only comparable within a position. Provisional and unweighted: not part of the Kin Score or agent readiness.

Market	Position	Depth	Registered MCP server	Declares compatibility
Home Assistant Custom Integrations (HACS)	standard	53.0	-	-
LF Energy Landscape (open-source grid, utilities, EV and DER)	standard	53.0	-	-
LF Energy Projects and Members (grid, DER, EV charging open source)	standard	53.0	-	-

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.

Standards implemented 3

Standards this provider implements or carries. De facto ones are profiled and measured by the API Commons; formal ones come from the standards directory and are linked by the provider's own tags. The evidence column says how each claim was established — not that it was made.

Model Context Protocol (MCP)

measured — observed by APIs.io (verified)

OpenAPI

measured — observed by APIs.io (published)

OAuth 2.0

measured — observed by APIs.io (declared)

APIs 3

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Hydro-Québec Open Data Search API v1

The legacy Opendatasoft Search API v1 still served on the Hydro-Québec open data portal. Verified live and anonymous on 2026-07-27 — GET /api/datasets/1.0/search/ returned HTTP ...

Hydro-Québec Catalog API

API to enumerate datasets

Hydro-Québec Dataset API

API to work on records

Open Collections 2

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

Explore API

OPEN COLLECTION

Explore API

OPEN COLLECTION

MCP Servers 1

Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.

Hydro-Québec MCP Server

Remote MCP server at gateway.pipeworx.io over HTTP; 46 tools listed.

MCP SERVER

Agent Skills 5

Packaged agent skills for driving this provider's APIs from an AI assistant.

Bulk export a Hydro-Québec dataset

AGENT SKILL

Compute Québec electricity carbon intensity

AGENT SKILL

Discover Hydro-Québec open datasets

AGENT SKILL

Query Québec electricity demand and generation

AGENT SKILL

Track Hydro-Québec outages and winter peak events

AGENT SKILL

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Hydro Quebec Rate Limits

1 limits

RATE LIMITS

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

Hydro-Québec API Rules

57 rules · 53 errors 2 warnings 2 info

SPECTRAL

OpenAPI Overlays 2

Overlays applied on top of this provider's contracts. Each card says who wrote it: a document the provider publishes, or one API Evangelist derived or generated.

Hydro Quebec Open Data Explore Api V2 0 Overlay

5 actions · update · hydro-quebec-open-data-explore-api-v2-0-openapi.json

DERIVED

Hydro Quebec Open Data Explore Api V2 1 Overlay

8 actions · update · hydro-quebec-open-data-explore-api-v2-1-openapi.json

DERIVED

Security Posture 3

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

Hydro Quebec Authentication

none/apiKey/oauth2 · 3 schemes

SECURITY

Hydro Quebec Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Hydro Quebec Vulnerability Disclosure

Hackerone · security.txt · contact published

SECURITY

Scopes 1

OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.

Hydro Quebec Scopes

1 scope · authorizationCode

1 scopes

SCOPES

Agentic Access 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Hydro Quebec Agentic Access

32 operations

32 operations · 0 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Get Started 4

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Portal

DeveloperPortal

GettingStarted

Sandbox

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

APIReference

APIReference

Agent Surfaces 5

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

WellKnown

MCPServer

LLMsTxt

AgentSkill

Design & Contract 7

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Conformance

ErrorCatalog

Lifecycle

Conventions

Idempotency

Components

DataModel

Scroll for all 7

Build 2

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Packages

Packages

ToolCrosswalk

ToolCrosswalk

Access & Security 6

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

Authentication

SecurityTxt

OAuthScopes

VulnerabilityDisclosure

VulnerabilityDisclosure

Security

Security

Operate 5

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support

StatusPage

Deprecation

ChangeLog

RateLimits

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

Company 3

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

LinkedIn

Other 4

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

CapabilityMap

Overlay

Overlay

Licensing

Source (apis.yml)

aid: hydro-quebec
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/hydro-quebec/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
name: Hydro-Québec
kind: company
description: Hydro-Québec is the government-owned Crown corporation that generates, transmits and distributes almost all of
  the electricity consumed in Québec, Canada — a vertically integrated, near-monopoly utility running one of the largest hydroelectric
  fleets in the world and serving roughly 4.6 million customer accounts across the province. It sits at every point of the
  value chain at once, as generator, transmission owner, distributor and retailer, plus a cross-border exporter into the New
  England and New York markets. Its API posture is a clean split. Market and grid data is genuinely open — a public Opendatasoft-powered
  portal at donnees.hydroquebec.com serves 26 datasets (electricity demand and generation, imports and exports, outages, GHG
  emission factors, hydrometric and weather data, winter peak demand events, vegetation control) through a documented, anonymously
  callable REST API with a machine-readable OpenAPI 3.0.3 description and a DCAT catalog export, licensed CC BY-NC 4.0. Consumer
  data is closed — there is no documented customer-facing API, no Green Button Download My Data or Connect My Data service,
  and no third-party consent flow; a customer's own usage is reachable only by logging into the Espace client web portal.
  Québec has no consumer energy data right. Ontario's Green Button regulation (O. Reg. 633/21 under the Electricity Act, 1998)
  is province-specific and does not bind Hydro-Québec, and Canada has no national equivalent to Australia's Consumer Data
  Right energy regime. Open market data, closed consumer data, no mandate.
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:
  - authentication
  - scopes
  - rate-limits
  - security
  - sandbox
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
image: https://hydroquebec.opendatasoft.com/assets/theme_image/hq-logo.png
tags:
- Energy
- Canada
- Utilities
- Electricity
- Grid
- Energy Markets
- Renewables
- Open Data
- Demand Response
- Carbon
created: '2026-07-27'
modified: '2026-07-27'
enrichedAt: '2026-07-27'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: hydro-quebec:hydro-quebec-open-data-search-api-v1
  name: Hydro-Québec Open Data Search API v1
  description: The legacy Opendatasoft Search API v1 still served on the Hydro-Québec open data portal. Verified live and
    anonymous on 2026-07-27 — GET /api/datasets/1.0/search/ returned HTTP 200 with all 26 datasets. Documented through the
    portal's interactive v1 API console. Hydro-Québec publishes no OpenAPI or Swagger description for this version (/api/v1/swagger.json
    returns HTTP 404), so no machine-readable contract was harvested for it.
  humanURL: https://donnees.hydroquebec.com/api/v1/console
  baseURL: https://donnees.hydroquebec.com/api/datasets/1.0
  tags:
  - Open Data
  - Electricity
  - Legacy
  properties:
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://donnees.hydroquebec.com/api/v1/console
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.hydroquebec.com/documents-data/open-data/
  - type: Licensing
    url: https://www.hydroquebec.com/documents-data/open-data/licence.html
- aid: hydro-quebec:hydro-quebec-catalog-api
  name: Hydro-Québec Catalog API
  description: API to enumerate datasets
  humanURL: https://donnees.hydroquebec.com/api/v2/console
  baseURL: https://donnees.hydroquebec.com/api/explore/v2.1
  tags:
  - Catalog
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/hydro-quebec-catalog-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.hydroquebec.com/documents-data/open-data/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://donnees.hydroquebec.com/api/v2/console
  - type: Portal
    url: https://donnees.hydroquebec.com/pages/accueil/
  - type: Licensing
    url: https://www.hydroquebec.com/documents-data/open-data/licence.html
  - type: Deprecation
    url: https://help.opendatasoft.com/apis/ods-explore-v2/explore_v2.1.html#section/Introduction/v2.1-Changelog
- aid: hydro-quebec:hydro-quebec-dataset-api
  name: Hydro-Québec Dataset API
  description: API to work on records
  humanURL: https://donnees.hydroquebec.com/api/v2/console
  baseURL: https://donnees.hydroquebec.com/api/explore/v2.1
  tags:
  - Datasets
  tags_raw:
  - Dataset
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/hydro-quebec-dataset-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.hydroquebec.com/documents-data/open-data/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://donnees.hydroquebec.com/api/v2/console
  - type: Portal
    url: https://donnees.hydroquebec.com/pages/accueil/
  - type: Licensing
    url: https://www.hydroquebec.com/documents-data/open-data/licence.html
  - type: Deprecation
    url: https://help.opendatasoft.com/apis/ods-explore-v2/explore_v2.1.html#section/Introduction/v2.1-Changelog
common:
- type: CapabilityMap
  url: capabilities/hydro-quebec-capability-edges.yml
  name: Hydro-Québec Business Capability Map
- type: Overlay
  url: overlays/hydro-quebec-open-data-explore-api-v2-1-overlay.yaml
- type: Overlay
  url: overlays/hydro-quebec-open-data-explore-api-v2-0-overlay.yaml
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/hydro-quebec-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/hydro-quebec-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/hydro-quebec-authentication.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.hydroquebec.com/
- type: Portal
  url: https://donnees.hydroquebec.com/pages/accueil/
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://donnees.hydroquebec.com/pages/accueil/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://www.hydroquebec.com/documents-data/open-data/
- type: APIReference
  url: https://donnees.hydroquebec.com/api/v2/console
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://help.opendatasoft.com/apis/ods-explore-v2/explore_v2.1.html#section/Getting-Started
- type: Support
  url: https://www.hydroquebec.com/sefco2016/en/open-data-contact-us.html
- type: Blog
  url: https://news.hydroquebec.com/en/
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.hydroquebec.com/terms-confidentiality.html
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.hydroquebec.com/documents-data/act-respecting-access/protection-personal-information/
- type: Licensing
  url: https://www.hydroquebec.com/documents-data/open-data/licence.html
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/hydro-quebec
- type: Packages
  url: packages/hydro-quebec-packages.yml
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/hydro-quebec-well-known.yml
- type: SecurityTxt
  url: well-known/hydro-quebec-security.txt
- type: MCPServer
  url: mcp/hydro-quebec-mcp.yml
- type: ToolCrosswalk
  url: mcp/hydro-quebec-tool-crosswalk.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/hydro-quebec-llms.txt
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/hydro-quebec-conformance.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/hydro-quebec-problem-types.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/hydro-quebec-lifecycle.yml
- type: StatusPage
  url: https://status.huwise.com/
- type: Deprecation
  url: https://help.opendatasoft.com/apis/ods-explore-v2/explore_v2.1.html#section/Introduction/v2.1-Changelog
- type: ChangeLog
  url: changelog/hydro-quebec-changelog.yml
- type: OAuthScopes
  url: scopes/hydro-quebec-scopes.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/hydro-quebec-conventions.yml
- type: Idempotency
  url: conventions/hydro-quebec-conventions.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/hydro-quebec-rate-limits.yml
- type: Sandbox
  url: sandbox/hydro-quebec-sandbox.yml
- type: Components
  url: components/hydro-quebec-components.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/hydro-quebec-data-model.yml
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/hydro-quebec-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: Security
  url: https://donnees.hydroquebec.com/.well-known/security.txt
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

Hydro-Québec API — frequently asked questions

Does Hydro-Québec have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 3 APIs from Hydro-Québec, including Hydro-Québec Open Data Search API v1, Hydro-Québec Catalog API and Hydro-Québec Dataset API.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the Hydro-Québec API?

Yes. APIs.io indexes 2 OpenAPI specifications for Hydro-Québec, each linked for download from this page.

How do I authenticate with the Hydro-Québec API?

Hydro-Québec uses bearer-token authentication (none/apiKey/oauth2 · 3 schemes). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Hydro Quebec Authentication.

Does Hydro-Québec have an MCP server?

Yes. APIs.io lists 1 MCP server for Hydro-Québec: Remote MCP server at gateway.pipeworx.io over HTTP; 46 tools listed.

Is the Hydro-Québec API ready for AI agents?

Hydro-Québec has a Kin Score of 54.9 out of 100 (strong) and an Agent Readiness score of 45.7 (agent-ready), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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