Southern California Edison (SCE) is the regulated electric utility subsidiary of Edison International, delivering power to roughly 15 million people across a 50,000 square-mile service territory in central, coastal, and southern California. In the United States energy value chain SCE sits at the distribution and retail layer as an investor-owned utility (IOU) regulated by the California Public Utilities Commission, operating the meters, the distribution grid, and the customer of record relationship that every downstream energy-data platform, DER aggregator, demand response provider, and solar installer ultimately depends on. Its API posture splits cleanly in two. Consumer data is mandated but closed to the open web - SCE runs Green Button Connect My Data through its Customer Data Access platform under CPUC tariff Rule 26 (Advice 3087-E, Decision 14-05-016), and states publicly that third parties need OAuth 2.0 and bulk API capability consistent with the NAESB ESPI standard, but publishes no developer portal, no base URI, no OpenAPI, and no sandbox - a third party must register with a Taxpayer Identification Number, accept terms, and pass a machine-to-machine connectivity test before any endpoint is disclosed. Grid data is genuinely open - SCE's Distribution Resources Plan External Portal (DRPEP) serves Integration Capacity Analysis, distribution circuit, PSPS, fire map, and load growth layers over an anonymous, unauthenticated ArcGIS REST service catalog that any developer can query today without a key.
Southern California Edison publishes 1 API on the APIs.io network: SCE DRPEP ArcGIS REST Services. Tagged areas include Energy, United States, Utilities, Electricity, and Smart Metering.
Southern California Edison’s developer surface includes developer portal, signup flow, documentation, support, authentication, and 18 more developer resources.
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SCE's Customer Data Access (CDA) platform, through which a customer can authorize a registered third party to receive their electric usage and billing data. SCE states on its pu...
The machine-readable grid data layer behind SCE's Distribution Resources Plan External Portal (DRPEP). An anonymous, unauthenticated Esri ArcGIS REST service catalog (server ver...
aid: southern-california-edison
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/southern-california-edison/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
name: Southern California Edison
kind: company
description: Southern California Edison (SCE) is the regulated electric utility subsidiary of Edison International, delivering
power to roughly 15 million people across a 50,000 square-mile service territory in central, coastal, and southern California.
In the United States energy value chain SCE sits at the distribution and retail layer as an investor-owned utility (IOU)
regulated by the California Public Utilities Commission, operating the meters, the distribution grid, and the customer of
record relationship that every downstream energy-data platform, DER aggregator, demand response provider, and solar installer
ultimately depends on. Its API posture splits cleanly in two. Consumer data is mandated but closed to the open web - SCE
runs Green Button Connect My Data through its Customer Data Access platform under CPUC tariff Rule 26 (Advice 3087-E, Decision
14-05-016), and states publicly that third parties need OAuth 2.0 and bulk API capability consistent with the NAESB ESPI
standard, but publishes no developer portal, no base URI, no OpenAPI, and no sandbox - a third party must register with
a Taxpayer Identification Number, accept terms, and pass a machine-to-machine connectivity test before any endpoint is disclosed.
Grid data is genuinely open - SCE's Distribution Resources Plan External Portal (DRPEP) serves Integration Capacity Analysis,
distribution circuit, PSPS, fire map, and load growth layers over an anonymous, unauthenticated ArcGIS REST service catalog
that any developer can query today without a key.
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/southern-california-edison.png
tags:
- Energy
- United States
- Utilities
- Electricity
- Smart Metering
- Green Button
- Grid
- Demand Response
- Solar
- DER
- EV Charging
- California
created: '2026-07-27'
modified: '2026-07-27'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: southern-california-edison:sce-green-button-connect-my-data
name: SCE Green Button Connect My Data
description: SCE's Customer Data Access (CDA) platform, through which a customer can authorize a registered third party
to receive their electric usage and billing data. SCE states on its public third-party page that the program "leverages
technology consistent with the standard adopted by the North American Energy Standards Board (NAESB) to support the Green
Button Initiative" and that third parties must have "technical system capabilities to complete customer authorization
using OAuth 2.0 and process files that are transferred using bulk API." No base URI, endpoint list, OpenAPI definition,
scope list, or sandbox is published anywhere on sce.com - the interface is disclosed only after a third party registers,
provides a Taxpayer Identification Number, accepts the Third Party Registration Terms & Conditions, and passes an SCE-run
connectivity test. The obligation to offer it is a California regulatory one, carried in SCE tariff Rule 26 "Release of
Customer Data or Energy Usage Related Data to Third Parties" (Advice 3087-E, filed 2014-07-30, effective 2014-08-29, implementing
CPUC Decision 14-05-016), which explicitly ties technical eligibility criteria to the NAESB ESPI standard.
humanURL: https://www.sce.com/partners/3rd-party-energy-providers/access-energy-usage-data
tags:
- Green Button
- Customer Data
- Smart Metering
- OAuth
- ESPI
properties:
- type: Documentation
url: https://www.sce.com/partners/3rd-party-energy-providers/access-energy-usage-data
- type: Portal
url: https://www.sce.com/partners/partnerships/thirdpartylandingpage
- type: Signup
url: https://www.sce.com/user-registration?userType=4
- type: TermsOfService
url: https://www.sce.com/terms-conditions/customer-data-access-terms-conditions
- type: Reference
url: https://www.sce.com/sites/default/files/inline-files/Rule26.pdf
- type: Reference
url: https://www.sce.com/sites/default/files/inline-files/Data_Element_Descriptions_SCE_1.pdf
- type: Support
url: mailto:GreenButton@sce.com
- type: Authentication
url: authentication/southern-california-edison-authentication.yml
- aid: southern-california-edison:sce-drpep-arcgis-rest-services
name: SCE DRPEP ArcGIS REST Services
description: The machine-readable grid data layer behind SCE's Distribution Resources Plan External Portal (DRPEP). An anonymous,
unauthenticated Esri ArcGIS REST service catalog (server version 11.1) exposing fifteen hosted FeatureServers covering
Integration Capacity Analysis circuit segments and constraint layers, distribution circuits, Distribution Deferral Opportunity
Report and Grid Needs Assessment layers, Locational Net Benefit Analysis, PSPS boundaries, fire map, subtransmission and
available-load heat maps, and load growth penetration. SCE publishes no developer documentation for these endpoints, but
they are live, key-free, and self-describing over the standard Esri ArcGIS REST interface, and a companion ArcGIS Hub
open data site is served at drpep-sce2.opendata.arcgis.com. This is the one place SCE data is genuinely open to any developer
without registration.
humanURL: https://drpep.sce.com/drpep/
baseURL: https://drpep.sce.com/arcgis_server/rest/services
tags:
- Grid
- Integration Capacity Analysis
- Open Data
- GIS
- Distributed Energy Resources
properties:
- type: APIReference
url: https://drpep.sce.com/arcgis_server/rest/services/Hosted?f=json
- type: Reference
url: arcgis/sce-drpep-arcgis-services-catalog.json
- type: Reference
url: arcgis/sce-drpep-ica-layer-featureserver.json
- type: Reference
url: arcgis/sce-drpep-arcgis-rest-info.json
- type: Documentation
url: https://drpep.sce.com/drpep/
- type: Documentation
url: https://drpep-sce2.opendata.arcgis.com/
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/southern-california-edison-drpep-arcgis-openapi.yml
- type: Overlay
url: overlays/southern-california-edison-drpep-arcgis-overlay.yaml
- type: JsonSchema
url: json-schema/southern-california-edison-drpep-layers-schema.json
- type: DataModel
url: data-model/southern-california-edison-data-model.yml
- type: Conventions
url: conventions/southern-california-edison-conventions.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
url: errors/southern-california-edison-error-codes.yml
- type: Catalogs
url: https://drpep-sce2.opendata.arcgis.com/api/feed/dcat-us/1.1.json
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
url: security/southern-california-edison-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
url: https://www.sce.com/
- type: Portal
url: https://www.sce.com/partners/partnerships/thirdpartylandingpage
- type: Signup
url: https://www.sce.com/user-registration?userType=4
- type: Documentation
url: https://www.sce.com/partners/3rd-party-energy-providers/access-energy-usage-data
- type: Documentation
url: https://www.sce.com/regulatory/regulatory-information/energy-data-reports-compliances
- type: Documentation
url: https://www.sce.com/partners/3rd-party-energy-providers/rule-24-faqs
- type: TermsOfService
url: https://www.sce.com/terms-conditions/customer-data-access-terms-conditions
- type: Support
url: mailto:3RDPARTY@sce.com
- type: LinkedIn
url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/sce
- type: PrivacyPolicy
url: https://www.sce.com/privacy
- type: Newsroom
url: https://newsroom.edison.com/
- type: Authentication
url: authentication/southern-california-edison-authentication.yml
- type: Conventions
url: conventions/southern-california-edison-conventions.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
url: errors/southern-california-edison-error-codes.yml
- type: Lifecycle
url: lifecycle/southern-california-edison-lifecycle.yml
- type: Conformance
url: conformance/southern-california-edison-conformance.yml
- type: DataModel
url: data-model/southern-california-edison-data-model.yml
- type: WellKnown
url: well-known/southern-california-edison-well-known.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
url: llms/southern-california-edison-llms.txt
- type: AgentSkill
url: skills/_index.yml
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/southern-california-edison-drpep-arcgis-openapi.yml
- type: JsonSchema
url: json-schema/southern-california-edison-drpep-layers-schema.json
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
email: kin@apievangelist.com
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