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?”

Connect to your AI assistant

Paste this URL into Claude, ChatGPT, or any MCP client, then sign in when prompted. California Energy Commission is ready as soon as you sign in.

https://patchops.ai/api/mcp

Add to Claude Add to ChatGPT Add to Cursor Add to VS Code

Claude: use Add to Claude, or Settings > Connectors > Add custom connector and paste the URL.

Claude Code

claude mcp add --transport http patchops https://patchops.ai/api/mcp

Step by step

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Open connectors
In Claude, open Settings > Connectors and click "Add custom connector".
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Paste the URL
Name it PatchOps and paste https://patchops.ai/api/mcp as the server URL, then click Add.
3
Sign in
Click Connect and sign in to PatchOps when Claude asks.
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Start using
Ask Claude a question. It uses California Energy Commission through PatchOps when it needs to.

› Technical details

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.

View the data contract and method schemas →