Thermal Power

Thermal power generation data APIs providing access to plant-level operational metrics, fuel consumption, heat rates, and generating capacity for coal, natural gas, petroleum, and nuclear power plants in the United States. Primary data source is the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) Open Data API.

Thermal Power publishes 3 APIs on the APIs.io network: Capacity API, Plant Operations API, and Power Operations API. Tagged areas include Energy, Thermal Power, Power Generation, Electricity, and Coal.

The Thermal Power catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context and 2 Spectral governance rulesets.

Thermal Power’s developer surface includes authentication, documentation, signup flow, and 5 more developer resources.

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36.0/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 30/100 agent ready Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-08-25 · rubric v0.14.0

AccessFreemiumSelf serve⚡ Free to try

3 APIs

EnergyThermal PowerPower Generation Electricity Coal Natural Gas Nuclear

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scored 2026-08-25 · rubric v0.14.0

Composite quality — 36.0/100 · thin

Contract Quality 13.5 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 3.6 / 17

Access Clarity 4.9 / 17

Operational Transparency 0.9 / 11

Contract Governance 1.0 / 10

Discoverability 6.3 / 9

Regulatory Posture 3.5 / 15

Agent readiness — 30/100 · agent ready

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 6 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 9 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 4 / 4

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Surface 0 / 5

Regulatory Posture applies to this provider. Its tags matched the Energy & Utilities regime, so Regulatory Posture carries 15 points of the composite. If this regime is wrong for your business, say so on your provider repo — the applicability map is public and we will correct it.

The six quality facets above are damped to 85 points between them, because the conditional facet above carries the other 15. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 85% of its nominal weight, not 100%. The full arithmetic is at apis.io/rating/.

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APIs 3

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

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Thermal Power Rate Limits

5 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

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

JSON Schema 1

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

Examples 2

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

AGENTIC

Resources

Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Signup

Signup

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

Documentation

Documentation

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Authentication

Authentication

Company 1

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Explorer

Explorer

Source (apis.yml)

aid: thermal-power
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/thermal-power/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
apis:
- aid: thermal-power:thermal-power-capacity-api
  name: Thermal Power Capacity API
  description: Generating capacity and generator-level data.
  humanURL: https://www.eia.gov/opendata/
  baseURL: https://api.eia.gov/v2
  tags:
  - Capacity
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/thermal-power-capacity-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.eia.gov/opendata/documentation.php
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/thermal-power-plant-schema.json
  - type: JSONLD
    url: json-ld/thermal-power-context.jsonld
  - type: JSONStructure
    url: json-structure/thermal-power-structure.json
  - type: SpectralRules
    url: rules/thermal-power-rules.yml
  - type: Vocabulary
    url: vocabulary/thermal-power-vocabulary.yml
- aid: thermal-power:thermal-power-plant-operations-api
  name: Thermal Power Plant Operations API
  description: Plant-level thermal generation operational data.
  humanURL: https://www.eia.gov/opendata/
  baseURL: https://api.eia.gov/v2
  tags:
  - Plant Operations
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/thermal-power-plant-operations-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.eia.gov/opendata/documentation.php
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/thermal-power-plant-schema.json
  - type: JSONLD
    url: json-ld/thermal-power-context.jsonld
  - type: JSONStructure
    url: json-structure/thermal-power-structure.json
  - type: SpectralRules
    url: rules/thermal-power-rules.yml
  - type: Vocabulary
    url: vocabulary/thermal-power-vocabulary.yml
- aid: thermal-power:thermal-power-power-operations-api
  name: Thermal Power Power Operations API
  description: Electric power operational statistics by fuel type.
  humanURL: https://www.eia.gov/opendata/
  baseURL: https://api.eia.gov/v2
  tags:
  - Power Operations
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/thermal-power-power-operations-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.eia.gov/opendata/documentation.php
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/thermal-power-plant-schema.json
  - type: JSONLD
    url: json-ld/thermal-power-context.jsonld
  - type: JSONStructure
    url: json-structure/thermal-power-structure.json
  - type: SpectralRules
    url: rules/thermal-power-rules.yml
  - type: Vocabulary
    url: vocabulary/thermal-power-vocabulary.yml
name: Thermal Power
tags:
- Energy
- Thermal Power
- Power Generation
- Electricity
- Coal
- Natural Gas
- Nuclear
kind: contract
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: true
  public: false
  label: Freemium · Self-serve signup
  confidence: high
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/thermal-power.png
access: 3rd-Party
created: '2026-03-16'
modified: '2026-05-19'
position: Consuming
description: Thermal power generation data APIs providing access to plant-level operational metrics, fuel consumption, heat
  rates, and generating capacity for coal, natural gas, petroleum, and nuclear power plants in the United States. Primary
  data source is the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) Open Data API.
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
specificationVersion: '0.23'
common:
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/thermal-power-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/thermal-power-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/thermal-power-authentication.yml
- name: EIA Open Data API
  url: https://www.eia.gov/opendata/
  type: Website
- name: EIA API Documentation
  url: https://www.eia.gov/opendata/documentation.php
  type: Documentation
- name: EIA API Registration
  url: https://www.eia.gov/opendata/register.php
  type: Signup
- name: EIA API Browser
  url: https://www.eia.gov/opendata/browser/
  type: Explorer
- name: EIA Developer Resources
  url: https://www.eia.gov/developer/
  type: Documentation

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