OpenADR Alliance
The OpenADR Alliance is a San Ramon, California mutual-benefit membership corporation that develops, certifies, and promotes OpenADR, the open information-exchange model utilities, ISOs/RTOs, aggregators, and device makers use to automate demand response and dispatch distributed energy resources. It is a standards body, not a service operator: it publishes the OpenADR 2.0a/2.0b profile specifications (approved by the IEC as IEC/PAS 62746-10-1) and OpenADR 3.0/3.1, which abandoned the SOAP-era design and is now defined entirely by an OpenAPI 3.0 contract covering programs, events, reports, subscriptions, VENs, and resources, secured with OAuth 2.0 client credentials. It also runs the OpenADR and EcoPort (CTA-2045-B) certification programmes and their public certified-product databases. Its API posture is honest but narrow: the OpenADR 3 OpenAPI is a genuine, parseable machine-readable contract, and the specifications are license-free, but the Alliance itself operates no developer portal, no api./developer./docs. subdomain, and no hosted API — its canonical specification repository (github.com/oadr3-org) has zero public repositories and requires membership, and the public route to the spec is a registration form that emails download links under terms and conditions. It publishes no consumer energy data and no open grid or market data; it defines the protocol that other parties implement. Home market is the United States, with adoption across Europe, Japan, Korea, and Australia.
Solid contracts, transparent operations, and an easy start — typically complete on four or five facets with one clear soft spot.
API Evangelist profiles OpenADR Alliance the way a machine reads it — 18 machine-readable artifacts across 4 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 — OpenADR Alliance scores 58.5/100 (strong), with a separate agent-readiness read of 34/100 (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 OpenADR Alliance
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for OpenADR Alliance. 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 9
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.
OpenADR Alliance Auth API
The Auth API from OpenADR Alliance — 2 operation(s) for auth.
OpenADR Alliance Events API
The events API from OpenADR Alliance — 2 operation(s) for events.
OpenADR Alliance MQTT Notifier API
The MQTT_notifier API from OpenADR Alliance — 12 operation(s) for mqtt_notifier.
OpenADR Alliance Notifiers API
The notifiers API from OpenADR Alliance — 1 operation(s) for notifiers.
OpenADR Alliance Programs API
The programs API from OpenADR Alliance — 2 operation(s) for programs.
OpenADR Alliance Reports API
The reports API from OpenADR Alliance — 2 operation(s) for reports.
OpenADR Alliance Resources API
The resources API from OpenADR Alliance — 2 operation(s) for resources.
OpenADR Alliance Subscriptions API
The subscriptions API from OpenADR Alliance — 2 operation(s) for subscriptions.
OpenADR Alliance Vens API
The vens API from OpenADR Alliance — 4 operation(s) for vens.
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Arazzo Workflows 2
Real integrations are rarely a single call. Arazzo describes the multi-step sequences — auth, then create, then confirm — so both a human and an agent can follow the choreography, not just the endpoints.
Multi-step API workflows described with the Arazzo specification.
Publish a program and dispatch a demand response event
BL/VTN-side flow against an OpenADR 3.1.1 VTN: authenticate with the client-credentials grant, create (or reuse) a program, publish an event carrying priced intervals against it...
ARAZZOOnboard a VEN, attach a resource, and subscribe to event notifications
VEN-side onboarding against an OpenADR 3.1.1 VTN: authenticate, register the VEN, attach a controllable resource, ask the VTN which notifier bindings it supports, and register a...
ARAZZOPricing 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.
Event Specifications 2
Not every API is request/response. AsyncAPI describes the event-driven and streaming side — the webhooks and channels — so the asynchronous half of the interface is documented the same way the synchronous half is.
AsyncAPI definitions for this provider's event-driven and streaming APIs.
OpenADR 3 Object Operation Notifications
Event surface of the OpenADR 3 protocol, derived from the OpenADR 3.1.1 OpenAPI contract and the Alliance-published notifications design document. The OpenADR Alliance publishes...
ASYNCAPIOpenadr Alliance Webhooks
ASYNCAPISecurity 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.
Scopes 1
OAuth scopes are the vocabulary of least-privilege access. Profiling them shows exactly what an integration — or an agent acting on a user's behalf — is allowed to do.
OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.
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.
Resources
Every other property we hold for OpenADR Alliance — 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 6
Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call
Documentation 2
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Agent Surfaces 3
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Design & Contract 7
Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events
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Build 5
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 3
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Learn 1
Tutorials, courses, talks, and written guidance
Operate 5
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 6
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 3
The organization behind the API
Other 10
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
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