{"id":563,"slug":"eia-apiv2-free-petroleum-electricity","title":"U.S. EIA APIv2: free registered-key access to petroleum/electricity/gas/coal/STEO/AEO data; WPSR releases 10:30 AM ET Wednesdays","kind":"reference","scope":"business","status":"current","audiences":["claude-code","dev","candid-team"],"topics":["measurement","open-data"],"reference_body":"**Claim:** The U.S. Energy Information Administration's **APIv2** is free with a registered key. Covers petroleum, electricity, natural gas, coal, nuclear outages, SEDS, STEO (Short-Term Energy Outlook), AEO (Annual), IEO (International).\n\n**Predictable release schedule:** Weekly Petroleum Status Report (WPSR) tables in CSV/XLS release at **10:30 AM ET Wednesdays**; full PDF/HTML after 1:00 PM.\n\n**Sources:**\n- <https://www.eia.gov/opendata/>\n- <https://www.eia.gov/petroleum/supply/weekly/schedule.php>\n\n**Confidence:** Verified.\n\n**EIA terms:** *\"EIA data is provided free of charge and should be used in compliance with our Copyrights and Reuse Policy.\"* No required attribution string but best-practice citation is agency + dataset + retrieval date. API has rate throttling.\n\n**Predictable timing = predictable product.** EIA WPSR at 10:30 ET, StatCan Daily at 8:30 ET, MSC near-real-time — these are the cadence anchors for any alerting/dashboard product.","rationale_body":null,"metadata":null,"links":{"outgoing":[],"incoming":[{"slug":"attribution-checklist-by-source","title":"Reference: compliance-grade attribution checklist by open-data source","kind":"reference","scope":"business","link_type":"depends-on"},{"slug":"underexploited-canadian-open-data-by-industry","title":"Reference: underexploited Canadian open data by industry — highest-leverage starts for KW SMB clients","kind":"reference","scope":"business","link_type":"depends-on"},{"slug":"research-brief-public-data-private-moat","title":"Research brief: Public data as a private moat — building proprietary intelligence from government open data (piece 11 of 15)","kind":"reference","scope":"business","link_type":"relates-to"}]},"created_at":"2026-05-22T20:32:45.179Z","updated_at":"2026-05-22T20:32:45.179Z"}