Voltus
Voltus is a United States virtual power plant (VPP) operator and distributed energy resource (DER) technology platform, headquartered in San Francisco, California, that aggregates commercial, industrial, residential and transportation loads and batteries into wholesale electricity markets across all of North America's organized markets (AESO, CAISO, ERCOT, IESO, ISO-NE, MISO, NYISO, PJM, SPP). It sits in the demand-response and flexibility layer of the energy value chain: it is not a utility and not a metering data holder, so no Green Button, Consumer Data Right or smart-meter data mandate applies to it — mandate regime is honestly none. Its API posture is unusually good for the sector and unusually split. Voltus runs a genuine public developer portal at api.voltus.co/docs (Docusaurus, no login) with concepts, tutorials, an OpenAPI-generated reference and a changelog, plus a fully anonymous sandbox at sandbox.voltus.co that answers real HTTP requests with the documented public key "X-Voltus-API-Key: secret" — a developer can call it before signing anything. Production, however, is partner-only: api.voltus.co/2022-04-15 returns 401 Permission denied to the sandbox key, and real access requires a commercial partnership plus a signed Letter of Authorization per site. Site telemetry and dispatch control are exposed to partners over that account-scoped REST API and over OpenADR 2.0a Simple HTTP PULL with mutual TLS; Voltus publishes no open grid or market data of its own, so consumer/site energy data is available under contract while market data is closed. No downloadable OpenAPI or Swagger document is served — /openapi.json, /swagger.json and /openapi3.yaml all 404 — but the portal is built with the Docusaurus OpenAPI plugin, and the real operation objects (parameters, request bodies, response schemas, examples) were recovered verbatim from the published build and assembled into openapi/voltus-openapi.yml: 10 operations across 8 paths.
Voltus publishes 4 APIs on the APIs.io network, including Dispatches API, Sites API, Telemetry API, and 1 more. Tagged areas include Energy, United States, Electricity, Demand Response, and Virtual Power Plant.
The Voltus catalog on APIs.io includes 1 event-driven AsyncAPI specification.
Voltus’ developer surface includes authentication, documentation, API reference, getting-started guide, sandbox, changelog, support, and 37 more developer resources.
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APIs 5
Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.
Voltus OpenADR 2.0a VTN
Standards-based alternative to the REST dispatch integration. Voltus states it "supports OpenADR2.0a via Simple HTTP (PULL)" and that "Voltus provides a VTN, and our partners ru...
Voltus Dispatches API
The Dispatches API from Voltus — 2 operation(s) for dispatches.
Voltus Sites API
The Sites API from Voltus — 1 operation(s) for sites.
Voltus Telemetry API
The Telemetry API from Voltus — 3 operation(s) for telemetry.
Voltus Webhooks API
The Webhooks API from Voltus — 2 operation(s) for webhooks.
Open Collections 1
Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).
Voltus API Reference
OPEN COLLECTIONArazzo Workflows 3
Multi-step API workflows described with the Arazzo specification.
Poll Voltus dispatches and curtail enrolled sites
The core Voltus demand-response loop: resolve your enrolled sites, poll for dispatches, then read the individual dispatch to drive per-site curtailment commitments. Runs end-to-...
ARAZZORegister a Voltus dispatch webhook and verify it
Move from polling to push: register an HTTPS callback for dispatch.create and dispatch.update, confirm it is listed, then remove it. Delete is permanent.
ARAZZOReport Voltus telemetry and read it back
Submit interval telemetry and controllable load for an enrolled site, then read interval kW back within Voltus's documented limits (10 sites, 90 days, 10,000 points per site).
ARAZZORate Limits 1
Documented rate limits and quota policies.
Voltus Rate Limits
RATE LIMITSEvent Specifications 1
AsyncAPI definitions for this provider's event-driven and streaming APIs.
Voltus Webhooks
ASYNCAPIExamples 4
Example request and response payloads for these APIs.
Security Posture 2
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.
Agentic Access 1
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Resources
Get Started 5
Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call
Documentation 3
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Agent Surfaces 7
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
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Design & Contract 7
Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events
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Build 5
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 3
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Learn 1
Tutorials, courses, talks, and written guidance
Operate 5
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 2
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 4
The organization behind the API
Other 2
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
Source (apis.yml)
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