Electricity Data and Statistics Application Programming Interface (API).

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description: Monthly, quarterly, and annual data on electricity generation, consumption, retail sales, price, revenue from retail sales, useful thermal output, fossil fuel stocks, fossil fuel receipts, and quality of fossil fuel. Data organized by fuel type, i.e., coal petroleum, natural gas, nuclear, hydroelectric, wind, solar, geothermal, and wood. Also, data organized by sector, i.e., electric power, electric utility, independent power producers, commercial, and industrial. Users of the EIA API are required to obtain an API Key via this registration form: http://www.eia.gov/beta/api/register.cfm; abstract: Monthly, quarterly, and annual data on electricity generation, consumption, retail sales, price, revenue from retail sales, useful thermal output, fossil fuel stocks, fossil fuel receipts, and quality of fossil fuel. Data organized by fuel type, i.e., coal petroleum, natural gas, nuclear, hydroelectric, wind, solar, geothermal, and wood. Also, data organized by sector, i.e., electric power, electric utility, independent power producers, commercial, and industrial. Users of the EIA API are required to obtain an API Key via this registration form: http://www.eia.gov/beta/api/register.cfm
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Title Electricity Data and Statistics Application Programming Interface (API).
creation  Date   2017-08-02T20:43:03.475135
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name Dublin Core references URL
URL: https://api.eia.gov/category?api_key=YOUR_API_KEY_HERE&category_id=0
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URL: https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data.cfm
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URL: https://www.eia.gov/beta/api/qb.cfm?category=0
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Metadata data stamp:  2018-08-06T19:35:21Z
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notes: This metadata record was generated by an xslt transformation from a dc metadata record; Transform by Stephen M. Richard, based on a transform by Damian Ulbricht. Run on 2018-08-06T19:35:21Z
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organisation Name  CINERGI Metadata catalog
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Metadata standard for this record:  ISO 19139 Geographic Information - Metadata - Implementation Specification
standard version:  2007
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