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U.S. energy data from the EIA: prices, inventories, production, power plants, and forecasts.

No key required. Included on Free.

Questions you can ask

  • “Weekly U.S. crude oil inventories for the last 8 weeks.”
  • “Henry Hub spot price by month this year.”
  • “Which gas-fired generators in Texas are scheduled to retire by 2030?”
Sample outputfor “Weekly U.S. crude oil inventories.”
Week endingCrude stocks (MMbbl)Change
Sep 5421.4-1.2
Sep 12419.9-1.5
Sep 19422.3+2.4

Illustrative values showing the shape of an answer, not live data.

Connect to your AI assistant

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

https://patchops.ai/api/mcp

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

  1. 1

    Open connectors

    In Claude, open Settings > Connectors and click "Add custom connector".

  2. 2

    Paste the URL

    Name it PatchOps and paste https://patchops.ai/api/mcp as the server URL, then click Add.

  3. 3

    Sign in

    Click Connect and sign in to PatchOps when Claude asks.

  4. 4

    Start using

    Ask Claude a question. It uses EIA through PatchOps when it needs to.

› Technical details

U.S. Energy Information Administration API integration for electricity, natural gas, coal, petroleum, energy outlooks, plus plant-level generator capacity, monthly generation, retirement schedules, and fuel mix.

View the data contract and method schemas →