Bonneville Power Administration
The Bonneville Power Administration (BPA) is a federal agency within the U.S. Department of Energy that markets wholesale electrical power from federal hydroelectric projects in the Pacific Northwest. BPA also operates and maintains about three-quarters of the high-voltage transmission in the Pacific Northwest. The agency provides publicly available GIS data, energy statistics, and operational data through its data hub and web services.
Real signal across most facets with visible, nameable gaps — the contract exists but is thin, or the portal is good while governance and commercial terms are absent.
API Evangelist profiles Bonneville Power Administration the way a machine reads it — 27 machine-readable artifacts across 2 APIs, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.
Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — Bonneville Power Administration scores 41.3/100 (developing), with a separate agent-readiness read of 30/100 (agent ready). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.
Kin Score
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Kin Score
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How we profile Bonneville Power Administration
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Bonneville Power Administration. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.
APIs 8
Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.
Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.
BPA GIS Data Hub API
The BPA GIS Data Hub provides publicly available geospatial data from Bonneville Power Administration. The hub is built on ArcGIS and supports data downloads in multiple formats...
BPA Wind and Solar Generation Data
BPA publishes real-time and historical wind and solar generation data for the Balancing Authority area. Data includes total wind generation, total solar generation, net generati...
Bonneville Power Administration Customers API
The Customers API from Bonneville Power Administration — 3 operation(s) for customers.
Bonneville Power Administration Hydrology API
The Hydrology API from Bonneville Power Administration — 1 operation(s) for hydrology.
Bonneville Power Administration Right of Way API
The Right of Way API from Bonneville Power Administration — 1 operation(s) for right of way.
Bonneville Power Administration Service Area API
The Service Area API from Bonneville Power Administration — 1 operation(s) for service area.
Bonneville Power Administration Transmission API
The Transmission API from Bonneville Power Administration — 2 operation(s) for transmission.
Bonneville Power Administration Data Search API
BPA's ArcGIS Hub site publishes a real OGC API Records catalog search over the agency's open geospatial data — 17 operations across collections, items, queryables, related and c...
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Open Collections 7
Open, tool-agnostic collections carry the same runnable value as Postman without locking you to one client — the portable, forkable form of the same exercise.
Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).
API Collection
OPEN COLLECTIONBonneville Power Administration GIS Hub Customers API
OPEN COLLECTIONBonneville Power Administration GIS Hub API
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Pricing Plans 1
Pricing is part of the interface. Machine-readable plans tell you what a tier costs and includes before you commit — one of the things the Kin Score reads for access clarity — renamed from commercial clarity in rubric 0.12, because a free statutory interface has access terms and no commercial ones.
Published pricing tiers and plan structures.
Rate Limits 1
Rate limits are the difference between a demo that works and a production integration that doesn't fall over. Publishing them is an operational-transparency signal — and a hard requirement for any agent that plans its own throughput.
Documented rate limits and quota policies.
Bonneville Power Administration Rate Limits
RATE LIMITSFinOps 1
Cost, billing, and metering signals let a buyer model the financial operations of an API before it's live. We profile them for the same reason we profile pricing: the money is part of the contract.
Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.
Features 2
The notable capabilities this provider advertises, captured as structured features so they can be searched and compared instead of read one landing page at a time.
Notable capabilities this provider offers.
GeoServices API
Open Data Downloads
Security Posture 3
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.
Agentic Access 1
An x-agentic-access contract marks which operations are safe for an agent to run on its own and which need a human in the loop. It is the difference between an API an agent can use and one it can use safely.
Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.
Use Cases 3
What developers actually build with this provider — captured so the catalogue answers 'what is this for', not just 'what does this expose'.
What developers build with this provider.
GIS Data Analysis
Renewable Energy Monitoring
Transmission System Monitoring
Resources
Every other property we hold for Bonneville Power Administration — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.
Get Started 1
Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call
Documentation 2
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Agent Surfaces 4
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Design & Contract 6
Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events
Access & Security 4
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Operate 3
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 3
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 4
The organization behind the API
Other 3
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
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