aid: nerc
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/nerc/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
name: NERC
kind: company
description: 'The North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) is the not-for-profit
  international regulatory authority certified by FERC in July 2006 as the Electric Reliability
  Organization under Section 215 of the Federal Power Act, added by the Energy Policy Act
  of 2005. From offices in Washington, DC and Atlanta, and working through six Regional Entities
  (MRO, NPCC, RF, SERC, Texas RE, WECC), NERC develops and enforces the mandatory Reliability
  Standards, including the CIP cyber security standards, that govern the bulk power system
  across the contiguous United States, all of Canada, and a portion of Baja California, Mexico.
  It registers and certifies the entities that operate that system, monitors and enforces
  compliance, runs the Electricity Information Sharing and Analysis Center (E-ISAC), and collects
  mandatory industry performance data through Rules of Procedure Section 1600 data requests
  into GADS, TADS, DADS and MIDAS. NERC sits at the top of the North American bulk-power value
  chain, above the ISOs/RTOs, transmission owners and generator owners it registers, and entirely
  above the retail utility-to-customer relationship. Its API posture is the plainest in this
  series. NERC publishes NO developer API, NO OpenAPI, NO SDK, NO developer portal and NO
  open data portal. A site search of nerc.com for the term API on 2026-07-27 returned zero
  matching documents. NERC is a MANDATOR of energy data, not a publisher of it. The obligation
  it imposes is to SUBMIT data upward to NERC, and the data submitted is explicitly confidential
  under Rules of Procedure Section 1500. What NERC does publish anonymously is documents:
  reliability assessments, the State of Reliability report, aggregated GADS/TADS statistics,
  Power BI dashboards and the public NERC Compliance Registry Matrix spreadsheet of every
  registered entity. Everything machine-facing, including the ERO Portal, Align, the Secure
  Evidence Locker, CORES, the GADS/TADS data stores and the E-ISAC portal, is behind an approved
  account. No Green Button, no ESPI, no consumer data right, and no consumer usage or billing
  API exists anywhere in NERC''s surface, because retail customer data is outside its reach
  entirely. NERC is a regulator whose peer FERC publishes a documented public API and whose
  neighbour EIA publishes one of the best government APIs anywhere, while NERC itself publishes
  none.'
image: https://www.nerc.com/globalassets/nerc-logo.png
tags:
- Energy
- United States
- Canada
- Electricity
- Grid
- Regulator
- Government
- Reliability
- Bulk Power System
- Critical Infrastructure
- Cyber Security
- Energy Markets
- Compliance
created: '2026-07-27'
modified: '2026-07-27'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis: []
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://www.nerc.com/
- type: Portal
  url: https://eroportal.nerc.net/
  name: ERO Portal - account registration and access requests for NERC data stores and applications.
    Not a developer portal.
- type: Documentation
  url: https://www.nerc.com/standards/reliability-standards
  name: Reliability Standards (web and PDF only, no machine-readable contract)
- type: Documentation
  url: https://www.nerc.com/programs/registration/compliance-registry-files
  name: Compliance Registry Files - the public register of registered entities
- type: DataCatalog
  url: https://www.nerc.com/globalassets/programs/registration/compliance-registry-files/nerc_compliance_registry_matrix_excel.xlsx
  name: NERC Compliance Registry Matrix (XLSX, anonymous download, no API)
- type: Documentation
  url: https://www.nerc.com/programs/reliability-assessment--performance-analysis/generating-availability-data-system
  name: Generating Availability Data System (GADS) - mandatory submission, confidential data,
    aggregated statistics published as PDF only
- type: Documentation
  url: https://www.nerc.com/programs/reliability-assessment--performance-analysis/transmission-availability-data-system
  name: Transmission Availability Data System (TADS) - Power BI dashboards, no data API
- type: Documentation
  url: https://www.nerc.com/applications/align-and-secure-evidence-locker-sel
  name: Align and Secure Evidence Locker (CMEP compliance platform, gated)
- type: Documentation
  url: https://www.nerc.com/applications/centralized-organization-registration-ero-system-cores-technology-project
  name: Centralized Organization Registration ERO System (CORES), gated
- type: Documentation
  url: https://www.nerc.com/applications/nerc-data-stores--extranet-sites
  name: NERC Data Stores and Extranet Sites (ERO Portal account required)
- type: Support
  url: https://support.nerc.net/
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.nerc.com/newsroom
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.nerc.com/legal-privacy-policy
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.nerc.com/terms-of-use-policy
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/north-american-electric-reliability-corporation/
- type: Twitter
  url: https://twitter.com/NERC_Official
- type: YouTube
  url: https://www.youtube.com/@NERCOfficial
- type: Website
  url: https://www.eisac.com/
  name: Electricity Information Sharing and Analysis Center (E-ISAC) - membership-gated Salesforce
    Experience Cloud portal
- type: Website
  url: https://www.nercalerts.com/index.php
  name: NERC Alerts system
- type: Roadmap
  url: https://www.nerc.com/standards/reliability-standards-under-development
  name: Reliability Standards Under Development - the forward work plan for NERC's
    standards, backed by the multi-year Reliability Standards Development Plan (2026-2028
    edition posted August 2025). A standards roadmap, not an API roadmap.
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/nerc-well-known.yml
  name: Discovery-surface index across every NERC-operated host. Only real hit is
    the E-ISAC OpenID Connect discovery document; www.nerc.com serves no /.well-known
    document at all.
- type: OpenIDConnect
  url: well-known/nerc-eisac-openid-configuration.json
  name: E-ISAC OpenID Connect discovery document (https://www.eisac.com/.well-known/openid-configuration),
    captured verbatim. Salesforce Experience Cloud issuer metadata; protected resources
    are membership-gated.
- type: ContentSignal
  url: well-known/nerc-robots.txt
  name: 'Cloudflare-managed Content Signals declaration captured verbatim: search=yes,
    ai-train=no, use=reference, with explicit Disallow blocks for GPTBot, ClaudeBot,
    Google-Extended, CCBot, Amazonbot, Applebot-Extended, Bytespider and meta-externalagent.'
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/nerc-authentication.yml
  name: Probed authentication profile. No API keys, no developer credentials, no machine-to-machine
    grant anywhere; interactive login only, plus the E-ISAC OAuth2/OIDC issuer.
- type: OAuthScopes
  url: scopes/nerc-scopes.yml
  name: The 36 OAuth scopes advertised by the E-ISAC issuer (Salesforce platform scope
    set). NERC publishes no scope reference of its own.
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/nerc-conformance.yml
  name: Standards conformance with evidence - OIDC discovery and Content Signals conform;
    OpenAPI, AsyncAPI, GraphQL, security.txt, RFC 9457, data.json, apis.json and llms.txt
    do not exist.
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/nerc-domain-security.yml
  name: TLS/HSTS/DNSSEC/CAA/SPF/DMARC probe results for nerc.com, nerc.net and eisac.com.
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/nerc-llms.txt
  name: Generated llms.txt - NERC publishes none (/llms.txt returns HTTP 404).
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com