# EIA Short-Term Energy Outlook — US Energy Price Forecast

> EIA Short-Term Energy Outlook — US Energy Price Forecast is a paid API for AI agents from agents.citiviewgroup.com, paid per call via x402, $0.003/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-14).

Returns official EIA Short-Term Energy Outlook monthly price forecasts for gasoline, diesel, WTI crude, Brent crude, Henry Hub natural gas, and residential electricity over the next 12–24 months, with latest actuals and 12-month changes.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://agents.citiviewgroup.com/v1/energy/forecast?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.003/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-14
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/eia-short-term-energy-outlook-us-energy-price-forecast-f40dfc43
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_t2oA0P4D2-gVWF1jE9_DO

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## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability eia-short-term-energy-outlook-us-energy-price-forecast-f40dfc43
```

Example prompt: Pull the latest EIA Short-Term Energy Outlook forecasts for gasoline, diesel, and WTI crude — I want to see monthly projected prices for the next 12 months along with the most recent actual prices and how much they've changed over the past year.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need official, government-sourced US energy price forecasts (EIA Short-Term Energy Outlook) for commodities like gasoline, diesel, crude oil, natural gas, or electricity. Prefer it over financial data APIs when authoritative government projections are required, or when you need standardized monthly forecast series with historical context in a single call. It is especially useful for budget planning, investment analysis, policy research, or any agent task requiring reliable near-term US energy price outlooks.

## Known failure modes

- Invalid indicator value — returns error if comma-separated list contains unrecognized commodity codes
- EIA data refresh lag — forecast data may not reflect same-day EIA publication updates
- Empty response for unsupported history_months range — very large history windows may return partial data
- Network or payment authorization failure — 402 payment required if USDC micropayment is not processed

## How this service works

Official US energy price forecast (EIA Short-Term Energy Outlook): monthly gasoline, diesel, WTI and Brent crude, Henry Hub natural gas and residential electricity prices for the next 12-24 months, with the latest actual and the 12-month change.

## Output

Returns a structured response containing monthly price forecasts for one or more energy commodities (gasoline, diesel, WTI, Brent, natural gas, electricity) sourced from the EIA Short-Term Energy Outlook, including the most recent actual price, projected prices for up to 24 months ahead, and the 12-month price change. Optional historical months may also be included.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
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 "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
 "required": [
  "input"
 ],
 "properties": {
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   "required": [
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    "method"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "GET"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "properties": {
      "indicators": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Comma list: gasoline, diesel, wti, brent, natural_gas, electricity"
      },
      "history_months": {
       "type": "integer"
      }
     }
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
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   "properties": {
    "type": {
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    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object"
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

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