EIA natural gas prices and Short-Term Energy Outlook
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Historical US natural gas spot and delivered prices, with short-horizon outlook projections.
Before you use this
- Historical only, plus a short outlook. Forward curves are commercial and redistribution is prohibited; that is a permanent gap, not a coverage shortfall.
- ProvenanceNot yet assessed
- DocumentationNot yet assessed
- Currency & maintenanceCurrent
Henry Hub spot prices, citygate and delivered prices by sector and state, plus the Short-Term Energy Outlook's forward view. DD7's structural note bounds what this can offer: historical prices are open and forward curves are uniformly commercial and will remain so, so a record like this serves backtesting and calibration and cannot serve forward revenue modelling.
- Identifier
https://catalog.opengrid.org/ds/eia-natural-gas-prices- Domains
- Fuel & commodity
- Keywords
- EIA, Henry Hub, STEO, fuel, natural gas, price
Fitness for purpose
- Supports
- Market Simulation, Production Cost Modeling
- Not suitable for
- Capacity Expansion Modeling
The exclusions are the half you cannot get anywhere else. A dataset that is wrong for your question is worth knowing about before you build on it.
Structure
- Network topology
- Not captured
- Impedances
- Not captured
- Voltage classes
- Not captured
- Provenance class
- primary
- Upstream sources
- Not capturedWhich is a statement about what the catalog can show, not about how the data was produced.
- Licence
- LicenseRef-US-Gov-Public-Domain
- Redistribution
- Not captured
Access terms, per path
JSON via EIA API v2
none · Free API key
Geographic
- Bounding box
- 18.00° – 72.00° N, -170.00° – -66.00° E
- Granularity
- national
- Native CRS
- EPSG:4326
- Geometry types
- Not captured
- Features
- Not captured
- As WKT
POLYGON((-170 18, -66 18, -66 72, -170 72, -170 18))
Temporal
- From
- Jan 1, 1997
- To
- Dec 31, 2027
- Update cadence
- monthly
- Time resolution
- Not captured
No field-level metadata yet.
Field-level metadata has not been captured for this record yet. It is at completeness level 1; field descriptions arrive at level 2.
Three independent facets
Graded separately and never combined. A dataset can be perfectly current and completely unprovenanced, and one number would hide exactly that.
Provenance
–Not yet assessed
Not the same as a poor grade. Provenance and documentation are graded from field-level metadata, which this record does not carry yet.
Documentation
–Not yet assessed
Not the same as a poor grade. Provenance and documentation are graded from field-level metadata, which this record does not carry yet.
Currency & maintenance
ACurrent
Last updated 2026-08-15 against a stated cadence of P1M; next due 2026-09-21.
This record is at completeness level 1. Provenance and Documentation are assessed from field-level metadata, which a level 1 record does not carry. Not yet assessed is not the same as poor.
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JSON via EIA API v2
● Checked and working- No account needed:
- Yes
- Credentials:
- Free API key