International Energy Agency (IEA)

The International Energy Agency (IEA) provides a REST API for accessing global energy statistics, renewables data, CO2 emissions factors, monthly electricity generation data, oil market reports, and energy policy information. The IEA API enables programmatic access to authoritative energy data covering 150+ countries and offering up-to-hourly real-time emissions factors alongside comprehensive historical datasets.

International Energy Agency (IEA) publishes 2 APIs on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Energy, Electricity, CO2, Emissions, and Renewables.

International Energy Agency (IEA)’s developer surface includes documentation, engineering blog, pricing, and 9 more developer resources.

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Composite quality — 22.0/100 · emerging
Contract Quality 0.0 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 2.2 / 20
Commercial Clarity 10.0 / 20
Operational Transparency 5.5 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 6.9 / 10
Agent readiness — 3/100 · human only
Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10
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 7 / 7
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Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3
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APIs 2

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

IEA Real-Time Emissions Factors API

Provides up-to-hourly CO2 intensity and emissions data from the power sector for countries worldwide. Data is sourced from transmission system operators, market operators, and s...

IEA Data Products API

Programmatic access to IEA's suite of purchased data products including World Energy Balances, World Energy Statistics, Monthly Electricity Statistics, Energy Prices, and Emissi...

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Iea Plans Pricing

5 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Iea Rate Limits

2 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Iea Finops

FINOPS

Security Posture 1

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

Iea Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · DMARC

SECURITY

Resources

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation
Documentation

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrg
GitHubOrg

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity
DomainSecurity

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

StatusPage
StatusPage
 RateLimits
RateLimits

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Pricing
Pricing
 Plans
Plans
 FinOps
FinOps

Company 3

The organization behind the API

Website
Website
 LinkedIn
LinkedIn
 Blog
Blog

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

X
X

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: iea
name: International Energy Agency (IEA)
description: The International Energy Agency (IEA) provides a REST API for accessing global energy statistics, renewables
  data, CO2 emissions factors, monthly electricity generation data, oil market reports, and energy policy information. The
  IEA API enables programmatic access to authoritative energy data covering 150+ countries and offering up-to-hourly real-time
  emissions factors alongside comprehensive historical datasets.
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  label: Free
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url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/iea/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-06-13'
modified: '2026-06-13'
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- Energy
- Electricity
- CO2
- Emissions
- Renewables
- Oil
- Statistics
- Climate
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- name: IEA Real-Time Emissions Factors API
  description: Provides up-to-hourly CO2 intensity and emissions data from the power sector for countries worldwide. Data
    is sourced from transmission system operators, market operators, and statistical agencies, combined with annual emission
    factors from national statistical offices.
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  humanURL: https://www.iea.org/data-and-statistics/data-product/real-time-emissions-factors-api-access
  baseURL: https://api.iea.org
  tags:
  - Emissions
  - CO2
  - Real-Time
  - Electricity
  - Power Sector
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- name: IEA Data Products API
  description: Programmatic access to IEA's suite of purchased data products including World Energy Balances, World Energy
    Statistics, Monthly Electricity Statistics, Energy Prices, and Emissions Factors. Uses bearer token authentication tied
    to active product subscriptions.
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  - Monthly Electricity
  - Energy Prices
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- type: LinkedIn
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- type: Blog
  url: https://www.iea.org/newsroom
- type: Pricing
  url: https://www.iea.org/data-and-statistics/data-sets
- type: StatusPage
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maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com