🔌 OpenEI Utility Rates Scraper

Whether you're a solar installer comparing utility rates, an energy consultant analyzing tariff structures, or a researcher studying electricity pricing across the country, this tool makes it easy to collect structured utility rate data from the OpenEI U.S. Utility Rate Database.

The OpenEI Utility Rates Scraper collects electricity rate structures from thousands of U.S. utilities including rate names, utilities, sectors, energy rate schedules, demand charges, fixed charges, and detailed tariff breakdowns.

✨ What Does It Do

• ⚡ Rate structures - collect detailed energy rate tiers, time-of-use schedules, and pricing breakdowns for utilities across the U.S.
• 🏢 Utility information - get utility names, EIA IDs, sectors (residential, commercial, industrial), and approval status
• 💰 Charge details - extract fixed charges, demand rates, demand units, and peak capacity limits
• 📅 Rate schedules - gather weekday and weekend energy schedules and demand schedules
• 🔋 DG rules - find distributed generation rules and net metering policies
• 📊 Comprehensive coverage - access over 50,000 rate structures from utilities nationwide

🔧 Input

• Max Items - how many utility rate records to collect (free users get 10 items, paid users up to 1,000,000)

{
    "maxItems": 100
}

📊 Output

Each record includes up to 30+ data fields. Download as JSON, CSV, or Excel.

Field	Description
📋 label	Rate plan label/name
🏢 utility	Utility company name
🔢 eiaid	EIA utility identifier
🏭 sector	Customer sector (Residential, Commercial, Industrial)
✅ approved	Whether the rate is approved
📅 startdate	Rate effective start date
💰 fixedchargefirstmeter	Fixed monthly charge for first meter
📊 energyratestructure	Tiered energy rate breakdown
📈 demandratestructure	Demand charge rate tiers
⚡ demandrateunit	Unit for demand charges (e.g., kW)
🔋 peakkwcapacitymax	Maximum peak kW capacity
📝 description	Rate plan description
🕐 scrapedAt	Timestamp when the data was collected

{
    "label": "Residential Service - Schedule R",
    "name": "Residential",
    "utility": "Pacific Gas & Electric Co",
    "eiaid": 14328,
    "sector": "Residential",
    "approved": true,
    "startdate": "2024-01-01T00:00:00.000Z",
    "sourceparent": "https://www.pge.com/tariffs",
    "fixedchargefirstmeter": 10.00,
    "fixedchargeunits": "$/month",
    "energyratestructure": [[{"rate": 0.25, "unit": "kWh"}]],
    "revisions": 3,
    "scrapedAt": "2026-04-09T12:00:00.000Z"
}

💎 Why Choose the OpenEI Utility Rates Scraper?

Feature	Our Tool	Manual OpenEI Browsing
Batch collection	✅ Up to 1M records	❌ Browse one rate at a time
All utilities	✅ Every U.S. utility	⚠️ Search one by one
Rate structures	✅ Full tiered breakdowns	⚠️ Click into each rate
Structured output	✅ JSON, CSV, Excel	❌ Web pages only
Automated scheduling	✅ Monthly monitoring	❌ Manual visits
Nationwide coverage	✅ 50,000+ rate plans	⚠️ Paginated search results

📋 How to Use

1. Sign Up - Create a free account w/ $5 credit
2. Configure - set how many utility rate records you want to collect
3. Run It - click "Start" and get structured utility rate data in seconds

No coding, no setup, no manual browsing required.

🎯 Business Use Cases

• ☀️ Solar companies - compare utility rates across regions to identify the best markets for solar installations
• 💡 Energy consultants - analyze rate structures for clients to recommend optimal tariff plans and energy savings
• 🏢 Commercial real estate - evaluate electricity costs across markets for site selection and operating expense forecasts
• 📊 Energy researchers - study rate design trends, time-of-use adoption, and demand charge structures nationwide
• 🔋 Battery storage companies - identify high demand-charge markets where energy storage delivers the greatest value
• 🏛️ Regulators and utilities - benchmark rate designs against peer utilities and track tariff changes over time

🔗 Integrate OpenEI Utility Rates Scraper with any app

• Make - Automate utility rate monitoring workflows
• Zapier - Get alerts when new rate structures are published
• Slack - Get notified in your team channel
• Google Drive - Export rate data to spreadsheets
• Webhooks - Trigger actions when runs complete

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⚠️ Disclaimer

This Actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to OpenEI, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), the U.S. Department of Energy, or any government agency. It accesses only publicly available data.