# OpenADR Alliance

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/openadr-alliance/  
**Website:** https://www.openadr.org/  
**APIs profiled:** 1

The OpenADR Alliance is a San Ramon, California mutual-benefit membership corporation that develops, certifies, and promotes OpenADR, the open information-exchange model utilities, ISOs/RTOs, aggregators, and device makers use to automate demand response and dispatch distributed energy resources. It is a standards body, not a service operator: it publishes the OpenADR 2.0a/2.0b profile specifications (approved by the IEC as IEC/PAS 62746-10-1) and OpenADR 3.0/3.1, which abandoned the SOAP-era design and is now defined entirely by an OpenAPI 3.0 contract covering programs, events, reports, subscriptions, VENs, and resources, secured with OAuth 2.0 client credentials. It also runs the OpenADR and EcoPort (CTA-2045-B) certification programmes and their public certified-product databases. Its API posture is honest but narrow: the OpenADR 3 OpenAPI is a genuine, parseable machine-readable contract, and the specifications are license-free, but the Alliance itself operates no developer portal, no api./developer./docs. subdomain, and no hosted API — its canonical specification repository (github.com/oadr3-org) has zero public repositories and requires membership, and the public route to the spec is a registration form that emails download links under terms and conditions. It publishes no consumer energy data and no open grid or market data; it defines the protocol that other parties implement. Home market is the United States, with adoption across Europe, Japan, Korea, and Australia.

## Kin Score — 58.5 / 100 (strong)

Scored 2026-08-17 under rubric 0.11.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 58.5).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 77.8 |
| Contract Quality | 72.5 |
| Governance | 23.4 |
| Operational Transparency | 21.1 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 60.3 |
| Commercial Clarity | 76.3 |

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

## Agent readiness — 43.9 (agent-ready)

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

## APIs (1)

- **OpenADR 3 API** — OpenADR 3 is the RESTful third generation of the OpenADR protocol, defined in full by a single OpenAPI 3.0 document published by the OpenADR Alliance. It supports energy-retaile...

## Agentic access (1)

- **Openadr Alliance Agentic Access** — 152 operations · 75 acting

## Security (2)

- **Openadr Alliance Authentication** — http/oauth2 · 2 schemes
- **Openadr Alliance Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **Openadr Alliance Plans**

## Tags

Energy, United States, Utilities, Electricity, Demand Response, Grid, DER, OpenADR, Standards, Smart Grid, EV Charging, Certification

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