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Rate Acuity

Rate Acuity provides US utility rate data for both electricity and gas through their web portal.

Overview

  • Product: Web Portal
  • Energy Types: Electricity, Gas
  • Coverage: US utilities
  • Data Format: CSV
  • Authentication: Account required

Data Format

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CLI Modes

tariff_fetch supports both interactive and non-interactive RateAcuity workflows.

Non-interactive commands:

uv run tariff-fetch ni rateacuity fuzzy ny "con ed" --tariff "residential service"
uv run tariff-fetch ni rateacuity eia-id 123 --tariff "small commercial"
uv run tariff-fetch gas ni ny "con ed gas" --tariff "firm gas service"
uv run tariff-fetch gas urdb ni ny "con ed gas" --year 2025 --tariff "firm gas service"

The electric raw workflow has two modes:

  • ni rateacuity fuzzy: you provide the state and a utility query string
  • ni rateacuity eia-id: the CLI resolves the utility name from the cached parquet using an EIA ID, then proceeds

Gas currently supports fuzzy matching only:

  • gas ni: raw gas fetch
  • gas urdb ni: gas history to URDB conversion

Fuzzy Matching

RateAcuity choices are only known at runtime because they come from the live web portal dropdowns. For that reason, the non-interactive commands do not accept a stable tariff id. Instead, they fuzzy-match your input against the live utility and schedule labels.

Behavior:

  • both your query and the available RateAcuity choices are lowercased before comparison
  • the best fuzzy match is selected automatically
  • repeated --tariff queries that resolve to the same schedule are deduplicated

Examples:

# likely matches "Consolidated Edison Company of New York"
uv run tariff-fetch ni rateacuity fuzzy ny "con ed" --tariff "residential service"

# uppercase/lowercase differences do not matter
uv run tariff-fetch ni rateacuity fuzzy ny "CON ED" --tariff "RESIDENTIAL"

Be careful with broad tariff fragments such as "service" or "residential". The non-interactive commands do not ask for confirmation; they select the best match and continue.

Features

Rate Acuity offers:

  • Electricity and gas tariff data (unlike Arcadia/NREL which are electricity-only)
  • Web-based interface for browsing rates
  • Export functionality for rate data

Use Cases

Rate Acuity is useful when:

  • You need gas tariff data (not available in Arcadia or NREL)
  • You want a second source to validate electricity rates
  • You want a web portal interface for manual lookups

Resources

Contributing

If you'd like to help implement Rate Acuity support, see the contributing guide.