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Thermal Power Plant Operations API

Plant-level thermal generation operational data.

Thermal Power Plant Operations API is one of 3 APIs that Thermal Power publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.

This API exposes 2 JSON Schema definitions.

Tagged areas include Plant Operations. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification, API documentation, a JSON-LD context, and 2 JSON Schemas.

This API exposes 1 operation across 1 path, and defines 3 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.1.0, at version 1.0.0.

Requests are made against a single base URL, https://api.eia.gov/v2.

1 operations 1 paths 3 schemas 1 GET

Metadata

The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.

Specification
OpenAPI 3.1.0
API Version
1.0.0
Base URL
https://api.eia.gov/v2
Authentication
API Key
Resource Areas
1

Authentication & Security 1

Thermal Power Plant Operations API declares 1 security scheme for authenticating requests. An API key is passed in the query as api_key (apiKey). By default, every request must be authenticated.

  • apiKey — EIA API key. Register for free at https://www.eia.gov/opendata/register.php

Paths & Operations 1

Across 1 path, the API surfaces 1 operation — 1 GET. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.

Plant Operations 1

Plant-level thermal generation operational data.

GET
/electricity/facility-fuel/data
Get Facility Fuel Data
getFacilityFuelData 10 params → 200400403

Schemas 3

The contract defines 3 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are FacilityFuelRecord (10 properties), FacilityFuelDataResponse (1 property), ErrorResponse (1 property). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.

FacilityFuelRecord
object
10 properties
ErrorResponse
object
1 property
FacilityFuelDataResponse
object
1 property

Specification

The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.

Source

thermal-power-plant-operations-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑

Other APIs Thermal Power publishes across the network.

Thermal Power Capacity API
Thermal Power Power Operations API