OpenEI Utility Rates Scraper
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OpenEI Utility Rates Scraper
Scrape US electricity utility rate structures from OpenEI. Get tiered pricing, time-of-use schedules, demand charges, fixed fees, and energy rate breakdowns for 150+ utilities covering 70% of US electricity load. Essential for solar ROI and EV charging analysis.
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🔌 OpenEI Utility Rates Scraper
🚀 Collect US electricity utility rate structures from OpenEI. Get tiered pricing, time-of-use schedules, demand charges, fixed fees, and energy rate breakdowns for 150+ utilities covering 70% of US electricity load. Essential for solar ROI and EV charging analysis.
Understanding electricity rate structures is critical for solar companies, energy consultants, battery storage firms, and real estate developers. The OpenEI database contains over 50,000 rate plans, but extracting structured data manually is impractical.
The OpenEI Utility Rates Scraper automates this process, pulling complete rate structures with tiered pricing, demand charges, and fixed fees. Whether you are calculating solar ROI, analyzing energy costs, or benchmarking utility rates, this tool delivers clean, analysis-ready data.
| Target Audience | Solar installers, energy consultants, battery storage companies, real estate analysts |
| Primary Use Cases | Solar ROI calculation, tariff analysis, rate comparison, EV charging cost analysis |
📋 What Does It Do
This tool collects electricity rate structures from the OpenEI US Utility Rate Database. It delivers:
- ⚡ Rate structures - detailed energy rate tiers, time-of-use schedules, and pricing breakdowns
- 🏢 Utility information - utility names, EIA IDs, sectors (residential, commercial, industrial)
- 💰 Charge details - fixed charges, demand rates, demand units, and peak capacity limits
- 📅 Rate schedules - weekday and weekend energy and demand schedules
- 🔋 DG rules - distributed generation rules and net metering policies
- 📊 50,000+ rate plans - comprehensive coverage of US utilities
📊 Data fields
Each record includes: approved, demandrateunit, eiaid, fixedchargefirstmeter, fixedchargeunits, label, name, peakkwcapacitymax, peakkwcapacitymin, sector, source, sourceparent, startdate, utility. These field names come straight from the actor's dataset schema, so what you see here is what lands in your dataset.
🚀 How to use
- 📝 Sign up. Create a free account with $5 credit (takes 2 minutes).
- 🌐 Open the Actor. Go to the OpenEI Utility Rates Scraper page on the Apify Store.
- 🎯 Set input. Configure the input fields in the form (or paste a JSON), then set maxItems.
- 🚀 Run it. Click Start and let the Actor collect your data.
- 📥 Download. Grab your results in the Dataset tab as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML.
⏱️ Total time from signup to downloaded dataset: 3-5 minutes. No coding required.
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🆘 Need Help?
If you hit a bug, have questions about setup, or need a scraper we haven't built yet, open our contact form or write to parseforge@protonmail.com. We also take on paid custom data projects.
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