Vectren (CenterPoint Energy)
Vectren Corporation was a Fortune 1000 energy holding company headquartered in Evansville (Newburgh), Indiana providing regulated natural gas and electric distribution services to customers in Indiana and Ohio, along with non-regulated infrastructure services and energy efficiency programs. Vectren merged with CenterPoint Energy on February 1, 2019 in a $6 billion transaction, becoming part of the combined company which serves over 7 million metered customers across Arkansas, Indiana, Louisiana, Minnesota, Mississippi, Ohio, Oklahoma, and Texas. Vectren customer-facing portals continue to operate at vectren.com redirecting to CenterPoint Energy services.
More than an index entry, but the surface is still mostly links rather than artifacts — the cohort most likely to move a full band from modest, well-targeted work.
API Evangelist profiles Vectren (CenterPoint Energy) the way a machine reads it — 19 machine-readable artifacts across 3 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 — Vectren (CenterPoint Energy) scores 21.7/100 (emerging), with a separate agent-readiness read of 7/100 (human only). 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
This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance.
Kin Score
How this is scored →scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
How we profile Vectren (CenterPoint Energy)
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Vectren (CenterPoint Energy). 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 3
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.
CenterPoint Energy Builder Portal
Web portal for builders and developers in Vectren/CenterPoint Energy service territories in Indiana and Ohio. Provides self-service tools for ordering new gas and electric servi...
CenterPoint Energy Customer Account API
Customer self-service portal providing access to account management, bill pay, usage history, and service requests for residential and business customers in the legacy Vectren s...
CenterPoint Energy Data Portal
Energy data portal for comparing current and historical energy usage, integrating with ENERGY STAR Portfolio Manager for benchmarking, and accessing customizable energy consumpt...
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 six things the Kin Score reads for commercial clarity.
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.
Vectren 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.
Vectren Finops
FINOPSFeatures 6
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.
Natural Gas Distribution
Regulated natural gas distribution serving residential and business customers in Indiana and Ohio.
Electric Distribution
Regulated electric transmission and distribution in southwestern Indiana.
Builder and Developer Services
Self-service portal for new service orders, meter requests, and construction project management.
Energy Efficiency Programs
Programs and incentives for energy efficiency improvements for residential and commercial customers.
Energy Data Portal
Historical energy usage data and ENERGY STAR Portfolio Manager integration for benchmarking.
Non-Regulated Services
Infrastructure services and energy efficiency solutions through Vectren's non-regulated subsidiary.
Security Posture 1
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.
Use Cases 4
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.
New Construction Service
Builders and developers order new gas and electric service connections for residential and commercial construction.
Account Self-Service
Customers manage accounts, pay bills, track usage, and request service changes online.
Energy Benchmarking
Commercial building managers benchmark energy performance against ENERGY STAR standards.
Usage Monitoring
Monitor energy consumption trends to identify efficiency opportunities and anomalies.
Integrations 2
Pre-built integrations with other platforms tell you where this provider already fits in a stack.
Pre-built integrations with other platforms and tools.
ENERGY STAR Portfolio Manager
Automated data connection for benchmarking building energy performance.
CenterPoint Energy
Vectren merged with CenterPoint Energy on February 1, 2019, becoming part of the combined utility.
Resources
Every other property we hold for Vectren (CenterPoint Energy) — 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 3
Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call
Access & Security 1
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Company 2
The organization behind the API
Other 1
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
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