Short-Term Energy Outlook: U.S. Electricity Application Programming Interface (API)

This API provides data back to 1990 and projections annually, monthly, and quarterly for 18 months. Summarizes the outlook for U.S electricity generation, consumption, retail prices, fuel consumption, fuel inventories, fuel costs, residential usage, and residential customers. Users of the EIA API are required to obtain an API Key via this registration form: http://www.eia.gov/beta/api/register.cfm

Data and Resources

Field Value
accessLevel restricted public
accrualPeriodicity R/P1M
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catalog_conformsTo https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
catalog_describedBy https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
dataQuality true
identifier DOE-019-540445733
landingPage http://www.eia.gov/forecasts/steo/
language {en-US}
license http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/other-pd
modified 2015-07-07
old-spatial United States
programCode {019:022}
publisher U.S. Energy Information Administration
references {http://www.eia.gov/tools/glossary/}
resource-type Dataset
source_datajson_identifier true
source_hash bb2e621c7f297d0da0b9da35f5b5947bd0646a7b
source_schema_version 1.1
spatial {"type":"Polygon","coordinates":[[[-124.733253,24.544245],[-124.733253,49.388611],[-66.954811,49.388611],[-66.954811,24.544245],[-124.733253,24.544245]]]}
temporal 1990/2015
theme {energy}
Groups
  • AmeriGEOSS
  • National Provider
  • North America
Tags
  • AmeriGEO
  • AmeriGEOSS
  • CKAN
  • GEO
  • GEOSS
  • National
  • North America
  • United States
  • api
  • electricity
  • electricity-forecasts
  • electricity-projections
  • projections
  • steo
isopen True
license_id other-pd
license_title Other (Public Domain)
maintainer William Jeffers
maintainer_email data@eia.gov
metadata_created 2025-09-23T18:30:07.578592
metadata_modified 2025-09-23T18:30:07.578599
notes This API provides data back to 1990 and projections annually, monthly, and quarterly for 18 months. Summarizes the outlook for U.S electricity generation, consumption, retail prices, fuel consumption, fuel inventories, fuel costs, residential usage, and residential customers. Users of the EIA API are required to obtain an API Key via this registration form: http://www.eia.gov/beta/api/register.cfm
num_resources 3
num_tags 14
title Short-Term Energy Outlook: U.S. Electricity Application Programming Interface (API)