# Ontario Energy Board

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/ontario-energy-board/  
**Website:** https://www.oeb.ca/  
**APIs profiled:** 2

The Ontario Energy Board (OEB) is the independent regulator of Ontario's electricity and natural gas sectors, licensing and rate-regulating roughly 60 electricity distributors, the province's transmitters, storage and generation licensees, unit sub-meter providers, energy retailers and gas marketers, and Enbridge Gas. It sits above the wires-and-pipes layer of Canada's largest provincial energy market — it does not own assets, does not run the wholesale market (that is IESO) and holds no customer meter data — so everything it publishes is regulatory, rate and utility-performance data rather than consumption data. Its API posture is the sharpest consumer-versus-market split this series has recorded in Canada. On market data it is genuinely open — an Open Data programme launched September 2022 under Ontario's Digital and Data Directive publishes 40 datasets - 198 individual files, verified by crawl on 2026-07-27; the programme's own earlier count was 18 - as anonymous, key-free XML, XLSX and GIS files under the Open Government Licence – Ontario, covering every open application before the Board (updated daily), current electricity and natural gas rates, distributor service-territory boundaries, the distributor performance scorecard, consumer complaints, and thirteen Reporting and Record-keeping Requirements (RRR) filings series going back to 2015. On consumer data it publishes nothing at all, because it holds nothing — it is instead the supervisor of the consumer-data mandate. Ontario is the only Canadian jurisdiction with a compulsory energy-data-sharing rule — O. Reg. 633/21 (Energy Data) under the Electricity Act, 1998 required rate-regulated electricity and natural gas utilities to implement Green Button Download My Data and Connect My Data to NAESB REQ.21 ESPI v3.3 by 1 November 2023 — and the OEB is the body that ran the consultation (EB-2021-0183), amended the Retail Settlement Code, collected quarterly progress reports and publishes the implementation status register naming 54 confirmed distributors and 6 extensions. There is no developer portal, no OpenAPI, no API key and no signup — just files, plus an undocumented but live JSON output on the regulatory document search.

## Kin Score — 47.1 / 100 (developing)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 47.1).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 75.9 |
| Contract Quality | 55.7 |
| Governance | 45.5 |
| Contract Governance | 45.5 |
| Operational Transparency | 15.8 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 47.0 |
| Commercial Clarity | 28.6 |
| Access Clarity | 28.6 |

Regulatory layer — **Energy & Utilities**: 39.2 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 37.5 (agent-ready)

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

## APIs (2)

- **OEB Open Data** — The Ontario Energy Board's Open Data programme, launched September 2022 under Ontario's Digital and Data Directive (2021) and expanded in October 2023 ("Open Data 2.0") and Augu...
- **OEB Regulatory Document Search (RDS)** — The OEB's public regulatory document search, serving every filing, decision, order, licence, code amendment and piece of correspondence in the Board's case record. It runs on Mi...

## MCP servers (1)

- **Ontario Energy Board MCP Server**

## Security (2)

- **Ontario Energy Board Authentication** — 0 schemes
- **Ontario Energy Board Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

## Tags

Energy, Canada, Ontario, Utilities, Electricity, Gas, Green Button, Smart Metering, Energy Markets, Regulator, Open Data, Grid

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