What you can ask
- “What does California Energy Commission have for the area or asset I'm working on?”
- “Pull the most recent California Energy Commission records and put them in a table.”
- “What does California Energy Commission cover, and how fresh is the data?”
About this source
California Energy Commission (CEC) open data via the data.ca.gov CKAN API. No auth. The CA power-plant inventory — 2,378 plants with operator, county, capacity (MW), fuel type, and coordinates — plus county/fuel summaries and CEC dataset discovery.
Connector ID ca-cec-energy
Provenance
Freshness & coverage
› Methods (5)
Technical detail for developers: parameters, pagination, units, and freshness per method.
searchPowerPlants
readSearch CA power plants by county, energySource (SUN/WND/NG/WAT…), operator, or full-text q.
county/energySource any case; operator = exact CEC name. limit+offset page.
getPowerPlantsGeoJSON
readCA power plants as a GeoJSON FeatureCollection for the map (filter by county/energySource).
limit 500 default (max 2000); _query.truncated says if the map is partial.
summarizePowerPlantsByCounty
unknownPlant counts + total capacity (MW) by county.
listEnergyDatasets
readList other CEC datasets available on data.ca.gov.
count = all CEC datasets; limit (default 50) + offset page through them.
getServiceInfo
readConnector surface + energy-source codes.