NAESB

The North American Energy Standards Board (NAESB) is the non-profit, industry-consensus standards development organization formed in 1994 that writes the business practice standards for the North American wholesale and retail natural gas and electricity markets, organized into four quadrants — Wholesale Electric (WEQ), Retail Electric (REQ), Wholesale Gas (WGQ) and Retail Gas (RGQ). Headquartered in Houston, Texas, its home market is the United States (with Canadian and Mexican participation). NAESB sits upstream of every utility, ISO/RTO and energy-data platform in the value chain: it authors REQ.21 Energy Services Provider Interface (ESPI), the standard that is the basis of every Green Button implementation in North America, and it operates the NAESB Electric Industry Registry (EIR) that underpins electronic tagging across the wholesale electric market. Its API posture is deliberately split and must not be overstated. NAESB is not a data holder and no consumer-data mandate applies to it; the Green Button standard it publishes is adopted by US utilities purely voluntarily, with no federal obligation behind it. The specifications themselves are copyright-protected and paywalled — $8,000/year membership, $2,000 per quadrant version, or $250 per individual standard — with only a free, view-only, three-business-day evaluation waiver for non-members. The single genuinely open artifact is the set of ESPI XML schemas, released under Apache 2.0 as a documented one-time exception to the NAESB Copyright Policy and downloadable anonymously after a one-click terms-of-use acknowledgement. The one real API NAESB operates, the EIR webRegistry SOAP service administered by OATI, is closed: it requires a paid registry subscription and a digitally signed X.509 certificate issued by an NAESB-Authorized Certification Authority, and its endpoint could not even complete a TLS handshake anonymously. Open standard schemas, closed standards text, closed registry API, no consumer data and no open market data of its own.

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How we profile NAESB

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for NAESB. 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 2

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.

NAESB REQ.21 Energy Services Provider Interface (ESPI)

The NAESB REQ.21 ESPI Model Business Practices define the data exchange protocol for transferring retail energy usage information from a utility (Data Custodian) to a Third Part...

NAESB Electric Industry Registry (EIR) webRegistry Web Services

The NAESB Electric Industry Registry is the central repository of registry information used by the North American wholesale electric industry for electronic tagging; it replaced...

Security Posture 2

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.

Naesb Authentication

mutualTLS/oauth2 · 2 schemes

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Naesb Domain Security

TLSv1.2 · DMARC

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Resources

Every other property we hold for NAESB — 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.

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