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The U.S. Energy Information Administration is committed to its free and open data by making it available through an Application Programming Interface (API) and its open data tools. EIA's API is multi-facetted and contains the following time-series data sets organized by the main energy categories.
Electricity
- Balancing Authority Areas hourly operating data
- includes actual and forecast demand, net generation, and the power flowing between electric systems
- Generation
- Capability
- includes monthly generator-level capability by fuel type, sector, and state
- Retail sales
- includes monthly price, customers, revenue, and sales by sector and state
- State-level electricity data
- annually by state and fuel
Natural Gas
- Production
- includes monthly and annual withdrawals and production, gross withdrawals, offshore production, plant liquids, lease condensate, and methane production, and wellhead values and marketed production.
- Prices
- includes spot and futures prices and delivered prices to consumers.
- Consumption/end use
- monthly and annual natural gas consumed by product, process, and region, with heat content, deliveries, and number of consumers.
- Exploration and reserves
- includes annual proved reserves, natural gas wet, dry plant liquids, crude oil wells, deep sea wells, offshore, coalbed, shalegas, lease condensate, and proved non-producing.
- Imports/exports and pipelines
- includes monthly and annual exports, and re-exports by country, imports by state and point of entry, intra and interstate movements.
- Storage
- includes weekly working gas in underground storage, monthly and annual by additions and withdrawals, and storage capacity.
- Summary
- includes monthly and annual natural gas supply and disposition summary.
Petroleum
- Crude reserves and production
- includes monthly and annual crude oil and crude plus lease consdensate reserves and non-producing reserves, production, gulf of mexico and federal offshore, wells, drilling activity and exploration.
- Prices
- includes daily, weekly, monthly, and annual prices for retail gasoline and diesel fuel, spot and futures, heating oil, refiner gasoline, no.2 heating oil, propane, residual fuel, and refiner acquisition, f.o.b, and landed costs.
- Consumption and sales
- includes weekly product supplied, monthly and annual supplier sales volumes, motor gasoline, residual fuel oil and no. 4, kerosene, distillate fuel oil by end use.
- Refining and processing
- includes weekly refiner and blender net production, monthly and annual refiner and blender, etanol plant production, feeds, utilization and capacity.
- Imports/exports and movements
- includes weekly imports and exports and preleminary crude imports, monthly and annual crude oil imports by port of entry, processing area, exports by destination, country, api grade and by tanker, pipeline, and barge.
- Stocks
- includes weekly, monthly, and annual stocks by type propane/propylene, motor gasoline, distillate, and residual fuel oil for refinery, plant, and bulk terminals.
- Summary
- includes weekly, monthly, and annual summary data for oil supply and disposition, supply estimates, prices, and sales volumes.
Crude oil imports
Coal
- Aggregate production
- coal state aggregated data by mine type, includes production, productivity, labor hours, employees, and coal rank.
- Shipments
- mine- to plant-level data, reciepts and aggregate data including price, quantity, quality, and rank.
- Consumption and quality
- coal consumption and quality data by state and sector, including price, reciepts, heat content, sulfur content, ash content, and stocks.
- Exports/imports quality/price
- coal import/export data, including price, quantity, country, rank, and customs district.
- Market sales and prices
- coal market sales prices and amounts by mine types for regions and states (unless withheld for pricing protections).
- Mine production
- coal mine-level data, including production, region, state, county, rank, status, type, name and description.
- Price by rank
- Coal prices by rank data for region and state.
- Reserves capacity
- coal capacity data, including productive capacity, stocks, and recoverable reserves by state, region and mine type.
Densified biomass
- Capacity by region
- capacity includes number of facilities and number of employees.
- Characteristics by region
- characteristics includes fuel type, average ash, heat, and moisture content by region.
- Export sales and price
- densified biomass export prices and quantity.
- Feedstocks and costs
- densified biomass feedstocks and cost by type.
- Inventories by region
- densified biomass inventories by region and fuel type.
- Production by region
- densified biomass production by region and fuel type.
- Sales and price by region
- densified biomass sales and average price by region.
- Wood pellet plant capacity
- details on wood pellet plants includes region, respondent, address, capacity, and status.
Nuclear plant generator outages
- Pulled daily from NRC
- Facility-level outages
- with capacity, outages, and percent outage.
- Generator-level outages
- with capacity, outages, and percent outage.
- U.S. nuclear outages
- with capacity, outages, and percent outage.
Outlook of energy market/projections data
- Short-term - monthly, long-term U.S. annual, and International
- Short-Term Energy Outlook
- Monthly short term (18 month) projections using STEO model.
- Annual Energy Outlook
- Annual U.S. projections using National Energy Modeling System (NEMS) by release year.
- International Energy Outlook
- Annual international projections using the World Energy Projection System (WEPS) model by release year.
Total energy
- Total energy consolidated across all energy sources
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- Electricity
- includes monthly and annual by grade, rank, country of origin and port of entry.
- Natural Gas
- seriend associated categories
- Petroleum
- includes monthly and annual by grade, rank, country of origin and port of entry.
- Coal
- seriend associated categories
SEDS
- SEDS (State Energy Data System)
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- Total Energy
- annual state and U.S.-level data by energy source and sector in Btu units.
- Production
- annual state, federal offshore, and U.S.-level data by energy source in physical units and Btu for 1960 forward.
- Consumption
- annual state and U.S.-level data by energy source and sector in physical units and Btu for 1960 forward.
- Prices
- annual state and U.S.-level data by energy source and sector in current dollars per million Btu for 1970 forward.
- Expenditures
- annual state and U.S.-level data by energy source and sector in current dollars for 1970 forward.
CO2 Emissions
- CO2 Emission Aggregates
- includes CO2 emissions aggregates by fuel, state, and sector.
- CO2 Emissions and Carbon Coefficients
- includes CO2 emissions and carbon coefficients by fuel, state, and sector.
International energy
- International energy
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- International data includes monthly and annual by grade, rank, country of origin and port of entry.
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Application Programming Interface (API)
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Open Source Code
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Spreadsheet Add-Ins
- You can download EIA energy data (and economic data from the St. Louis Federal Reserve (FRED)) directly to your spreadsheet for charts, graphs, and tables. Version 2.1.0 was released March 30, 2023.
- Microsoft Excel Add-Ins
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Bulk File Downloads
Note: The API Bulk Download Update runs twice daily at 5 a.m. and 3 p.m. eastern time. Updated Bulk API data should be available within 30-45 minutes after the update start time.
Embed Graphs & Maps
- Stay current and embed EIA charts and maps on your website that automatically update when the data is updated.
- Widgets
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Webinar
- Watch a hands-on demo of APIv2 and live Q&A with the web development team.