Environments
Use the Certification environment while you build and test your integration. Switch to Production when you’re ready to serve live traffic. Both environments require the same authentication credentials.What You Can Query
Residential Plans
Retrieve available retail electricity plans for a residential address, filtered by ZIP code, utility, monthly usage, and price type.
Business Plans
Fetch commercial electricity plans by ZIP code and annual usage, with support for move-in scenarios and custom start dates.
Utilities
Look up the transmission and distribution utility (TDU) that serves a given ZIP code — a required input for plan queries in most markets.
Next Start Date
Get the earliest available service start date for a ZIP code, accounting for move-in rules and market-specific scheduling windows.
Utility Accounts
Validate and retrieve an existing utility account by account number and service address for both residential and business customers.
Energy Info by State
Pull state-level market information — including regulatory context and available rate types — for residential or business segments.
Coverage
Examples throughout this documentation use Texas ZIP codes (for example, 75231 and 77002), but the same queries work unchanged across all deregulated markets PowerHQ supports — including Pennsylvania (e.g. 19103), Illinois (e.g. 60602), New Jersey (e.g. 07030), Ohio, and others. Plan availability and supported query parameters vary by market; check the per-query reference pages for market-specific notes.Your API key is the only credential. Contact your PowerHQ representative for a key, or run real queries with no key at all in the playground. Requests without a valid key are rejected with
403 Forbidden.