# NERC

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/nerc/  
**Website:** https://www.nerc.com/  
**APIs profiled:** 0

The North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) is the not-for-profit international regulatory authority certified by FERC in July 2006 as the Electric Reliability Organization under Section 215 of the Federal Power Act, added by the Energy Policy Act of 2005. From offices in Washington, DC and Atlanta, and working through six Regional Entities (MRO, NPCC, RF, SERC, Texas RE, WECC), NERC develops and enforces the mandatory Reliability Standards, including the CIP cyber security standards, that govern the bulk power system across the contiguous United States, all of Canada, and a portion of Baja California, Mexico. It registers and certifies the entities that operate that system, monitors and enforces compliance, runs the Electricity Information Sharing and Analysis Center (E-ISAC), and collects mandatory industry performance data through Rules of Procedure Section 1600 data requests into GADS, TADS, DADS and MIDAS. NERC sits at the top of the North American bulk-power value chain, above the ISOs/RTOs, transmission owners and generator owners it registers, and entirely above the retail utility-to-customer relationship. Its API posture is the plainest in this series. NERC publishes NO developer API, NO OpenAPI, NO SDK, NO developer portal and NO open data portal. A site search of nerc.com for the term API on 2026-07-27 returned zero matching documents. NERC is a MANDATOR of energy data, not a publisher of it. The obligation it imposes is to SUBMIT data upward to NERC, and the data submitted is explicitly confidential under Rules of Procedure Section 1500. What NERC does publish anonymously is documents: reliability assessments, the State of Reliability report, aggregated GADS/TADS statistics, Power BI dashboards and the public NERC Compliance Registry Matrix spreadsheet of every registered entity. Everything machine-facing, including the ERO Portal, Align, the Secure Evidence Locker, CORES, the GADS/TADS data stores and the E-ISAC portal, is behind an approved account. No Green Button, no ESPI, no consumer data right, and no consumer usage or billing API exists anywhere in NERC's surface, because retail customer data is outside its reach entirely. NERC is a regulator whose peer FERC publishes a documented public API and whose neighbour EIA publishes one of the best government APIs anywhere, while NERC itself publishes none.

## Kin Score — 25.0 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-08-19 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.3 from 24.7).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 68.5 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 4.5 |
| Contract Governance | 4.5 |
| Operational Transparency | 5.3 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 35.7 |
| Commercial Clarity | 21.1 |
| Access Clarity | 21.1 |

Regulatory layer — **Energy & Utilities**: 56.8 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 11.1 (agent-aware)

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

## Security (2)

- **Nerc Authentication** — none/oauth2/openIdConnect · 0 schemes
- **Nerc Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

## Tags

Energy, United States, Canada, Electricity, Grid, Regulator, Government, Reliability, Bulk Power System, Critical Infrastructure, Cyber Security, Energy Markets, Compliance

---

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