aid: bc-hydro
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/bc-hydro/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
name: BC Hydro
kind: company
description: >-
  British Columbia Hydro and Power Authority (BC Hydro) is a provincial Crown
  corporation whose sole shareholder is the Province of British Columbia, and
  which states that it generates and delivers electricity to "95% of the
  population of B.C." and serves "over five million people." It is the
  vertically integrated end of the value chain in a market with no retail
  competition: BC Hydro owns the generation fleet (predominantly large
  hydroelectric), owns and operates the provincial transmission and
  distribution system, and is the monopoly retailer that bills the customer —
  all under rate regulation by the B.C. Utilities Commission (BCUC), not under
  any consumer data right. That regulatory fact drives the entire API posture.
  Ontario Regulation 633/21 compels Ontario distributors to implement Green
  Button Download My Data and Connect My Data; British Columbia has no
  equivalent, and no Canadian federal energy data mandate exists. BC Hydro has
  nonetheless adopted Green Button voluntarily — but only the file half of it.
  BC Hydro's own MyHydro billing pages state that a customer can "Download a
  CSV or Green Button XML file with your metered electricity use," available
  through the previous day and up to three years back. There is no Connect My
  Data, no OAuth authorization surface, no third-party vendor onboarding, and
  no published resource base URI: a third party cannot obtain a customer's
  usage data through any documented API, only the account holder can, by
  logging in and downloading a file. On the market-data side the picture is
  just as closed. There is no developer.bchydro.com, api.bchydro.com,
  data.bchydro.com or docs.bchydro.com (all DNS failures), no /developers,
  /api or /data path, no OpenAPI or Swagger definition anywhere, and no open
  data portal. Wholesale transmission information is posted to an OATI-hosted
  OASIS node that only registered transmission customers may use, and the
  BCUC-ordered transaction-data postings are documents rather than feeds. The
  single deliberate open-data artifact is one 2013 mapping layer published to
  the provincial BC Data Catalogue under the org
  "bc-hydro-and-power-authority." The finding is a utility that is closed on
  both axes: consumer data exists in a real standard but only as a
  human-initiated download behind a customer login, and grid/market data is
  either registration-gated or absent.
accessModel:
  pricing: free
  onboarding: customer-account-required
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Free · Own-account customer login required
  confidence: high
  source:
  - documentation
  - authentication
  generated: '2026-07-27'
  method: manual
image: >-
  https://www.bchydro.com/content/experience-fragments/bchydro-web/header/master/_jcr_content/root/container/container/image.coreimg.svg/1723787760686/logo-bchydro.svg
tags:
- Energy
- Canada
- Utilities
- Electricity
- Crown Corporation
- Hydroelectric
- Renewables
- Grid
- Transmission
- Distribution
- Smart Metering
- Green Button
- Energy Data
- EV Charging
created: '2026-07-27'
modified: '2026-07-27'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis: []
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/bc-hydro-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  name: Authentication profile — MyHydro customer SSO, no third-party auth
  url: authentication/bc-hydro-authentication.yml
- type: Conventions
  name: Data-surface conventions (file export + undocumented outage feed)
  url: conventions/bc-hydro-conventions.yml
- type: Conformance
  name: Standards conformance and regulatory posture
  url: conformance/bc-hydro-conformance.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  name: Lifecycle — no API versioning, deprecation, SLA or status page
  url: lifecycle/bc-hydro-lifecycle.yml
- type: Packages
  name: Package registry search — no first-party SDK
  url: packages/bc-hydro-packages.yml
- type: JSONSchema
  name: >-
    Schema derived from BC Hydro's undocumented public outage-map JSON feed — not
    a BC Hydro API or contract
  url: json-schema/bc-hydro-outages-map.json
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/bc-hydro-llms.txt
- type: Compliance
  name: NERC CIP-013-2 supply-chain cybersecurity requirements for suppliers
  url: https://www.bchydro.com/work-with-us/suppliers/doing-business-with-bchydro/contractor-cybersecurity.html
- type: Website
  url: https://www.bchydro.com/
- type: About
  url: https://www.bchydro.com/about.html
- type: Documentation
  url: https://app.bchydro.com/accounts-billing/bill-payment/view-bill.html
- type: Documentation
  url: https://app.bchydro.com/accounts-billing/rates-energy-use/access-load-data.html
- type: Authentication
  name: MyHydro log in (customer-portal SSO — the only authentication that exists)
  url: https://www.bchydro.com/login
- type: Support
  url: https://www.bchydro.com/contact.html
- type: HelpCenter
  url: https://app.bchydro.com/accounts-billing/get-help.html
- type: TermsOfService
  name: Legal (website terms)
  url: https://www.bchydro.com/siteinfo/legal.html
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.bchydro.com/siteinfo/privacy.html
- type: Accessibility
  url: https://www.bchydro.com/toolbar/about/accountability_reports/accessibility.html
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.bchydro.com/news/press_centre.html
- type: News
  url: https://www.bchydro.com/news.html
- type: Tariff
  name: Terms, conditions & pricing (BCUC-approved electric tariff)
  url: https://www.bchydro.com/toolbar/about/strategies-plans-regulatory/tariffs-terms-conditions.html
- type: OpenData
  name: BC Data Catalogue — one 2013 mapping dataset, published by the Province
  url: https://catalogue.data.gov.bc.ca/organization/bc-hydro-and-power-authority
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/bc-hydro
- type: Regulator
  url: https://www.bcuc.com/
- type: Standard
  url: https://www.greenbuttonalliance.org/
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com