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Electricity Data and Statistics Application Programming Interface (API)

Summary

Type of release
a service or API for accessing open data

Data Licence
Not Applicable

Content Licence
Creative Commons CCZero

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Release Date
2 October 2014
Modified Date
10 October 2015
Update Frequency
R/P1M
Publishers
Department of Energy
Keywords
average-revenue-per-kilowatthour, capacity, capacity-margin, capacity-reserves, carbon-dioxide, combined-heat-and-power, demand, demand-side-management, electric-sales, electric-utilities, electricity-exports, electricity-imports, electricity-price, electricity-purchases, electricity-sales-for-resale, emissions, environment, flue-gas-desulfurization, fuel-consumption, fuel-cost, fuel-stocks, generation, geothermal, green-pricing, heat-rate, hydroelectric, independent-power-producer, net-metering, nuclear-power, number-of-customers, peak-load, photovoltaic, renewable-generation, revenue, scrubber, solar-power, transmission-capacity, wholesale-power
Identifier
electricity-data-and-statistics-application-programming-interface
Landing Page
http://www.eia.gov/beta/api/qb.cfm?category=0
Maintainers
Mark Elbert data@eia.gov
Theme
energy
Language
en-US

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Description

Monthly, quarterly, and annual data on electricity generation, consumption, retail sales, price, revenue from retail sales, useful thermal output, fossil fuel stocks, fossil fuel receipts, and quality of fossil fuel. Data organized by fuel type, i.e., coal petroleum, natural gas, nuclear, hydroelectric, wind, solar, geothermal, and wood. Also, data organized by sector, i.e., electric power, electric utility, independent power producers, commercial, and industrial. Users of the EIA API are required to obtain an API Key via this registration form: http://www.eia.gov/beta/api/register.cfm

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