specification: API Commons Plans
specificationVersion: '0.1'
schema: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/interface-research/main/schema/api-commons.yml#/$defs/Plans
provider: Bonneville Power Administration
providerId: bonneville-power-administration
generated: '2026-09-06'
method: searched
source: >-
  https://data-bpagis.hub.arcgis.com, https://www.bpa.gov/energy-and-services/, and the
  DCAT-US catalog at https://data-bpagis.hub.arcgis.com/data.json
created: '2026-05-04'
modified: '2026-09-06'
tags:
  - Energy
  - Federal Government
  - GIS
  - Open Data
  - Power
  - Transmission
description: >-
  BPA publishes NO API plans, tiers or pricing, and none is expected: BPA is a US federal
  agency and its public data surface is open government data, free to anyone, with no
  account, no metering and no commercial relationship. Recorded as an honest zero.
plan_count: 0
plans: []
pricing_model: free-public-data
account_required: false
metered: false
evidence:
- url: https://data-bpagis.hub.arcgis.com
  http_status: 200
  note: >-
    ArcGIS Hub open-data site. No pricing, plan, quota or sign-up surface anywhere on it;
    datasets are downloaded and queried anonymously.
- url: https://data-bpagis.hub.arcgis.com/data.json
  http_status: 200
  note: >-
    Every one of the 21 catalogued datasets carries an accessLevel of "public"; none
    carries a rights or price statement restricting access.
- url: https://services3.arcgis.com/Iz3chmSt4P7oOoZy/arcgis/rest/services/BPA_ServiceArea/FeatureServer/0/query?where=1%3D1&outFields=*&f=json
  http_status: 200
  note: Returned data anonymously with no credential and no billing relationship. Probed 2026-09-06.
notes:
- >-
  BPA does publish power and transmission RATES — wholesale electricity tariffs set through
  FERC rate proceedings. Those price electricity, not API access, and are deliberately not
  modelled here as API plans.
- >-
  This file previously carried a scaffold Free/Pro/Enterprise tier structure written by the
  2026-05-04 bulk sweep with invented limits. That was replaced on 2026-09-06 with the
  measured result. BPA has no plans; inventing three was worse than recording none.