Australian Energy Market Commission

The Australian Energy Market Commission (AEMC) is the independent statutory rule maker for Australia's energy markets, established in 2005 and based in Sydney. It makes and amends the National Electricity Rules, National Gas Rules and National Energy Retail Rules, conducts market reviews, and advises the Energy and Climate Change Ministerial Council. It sits upstream of every other body in the Australian energy value chain — it writes the obligations that AEMO operates, that the AER enforces, and that retailers and networks must meet — but it operates no market systems and holds no consumer data itself. AEMC publishes no developer portal, no documented API, no OpenAPI and no open data product, and the corporate Drupal site at www.aemc.gov.au returns 404 for /api, /openapi.json, /swagger.json, /api-docs, /jsonapi and /graphql. It does, however, run one real machine-readable surface that it does not advertise — the Energy Rules application at energy-rules.aemc.gov.au is backed by an undocumented, entirely anonymous JSON API at /api/v1 that serves the full versioned text of all three rule books — 304 versions of the National Electricity Rules, 115 of the National Gas Rules and 65 of the National Energy Retail Rules — with a table of contents, per-clause content, full-text search, a complete defined-terms glossary and links to every published PDF and DOCX. That API is captured here as a derived OpenAPI built from AEMC's own production JavaScript bundle plus live probes. The other finding that matters is regulatory rather than technical — on 18 December 2025 the AEMC made a final rule giving all consumers and their AEMO-accredited representatives a right to real-time data from smart meters, with AEMO required to publish the technical procedures by 30 November 2026 and the meter obligation commencing 30 November 2028 — a mandate designated but not live, and separate from the Consumer Data Right, which is administered by Treasury, the ACCC and the Data Standards Body, with retailers as primary and AEMO as secondary data holder. AEMC is not a CDR data holder.

Australian Energy Market Commission publishes 5 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network, including Glossary API, Rule Content API, Rule Versions API, and 2 more. Tagged areas include Energy, Australia, Energy Markets, Electricity, and Gas.

The Australian Energy Market Commission catalog on APIs.io includes 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

Australian Energy Market Commission’s developer surface includes support, documentation, engineering blog, authentication, code examples, changelog, and 22 more developer resources.

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29.8/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 28/100 agent aware Front door AI 1/6 silent Heartbeat 100/100 alive saas Full breakdown ↓
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1 published contract 3 Agent Skills

Energy Australia Energy Markets Electricity Gas Utilities Regulations Smart Metering Consumer Data Right Government Legal Rules

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Composite quality — 29.8/100 · thin

Contract Quality 3.3 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 6.8 / 17

Access Clarity 3.6 / 17

Operational Transparency 1.7 / 11

Contract Governance 1.9 / 10

Discoverability 6.2 / 9

Regulatory Posture 4.1 / 15

Agent readiness — 28/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 6 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 9 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8

Request/Response Examples 7 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 5 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 4 / 4

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Pagination 0 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

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Contract Quality scores 15.7 — up to +21.1 composite points
Access Clarity scores 21.1 — up to +15.8 composite points
Developer Ergonomics scores 39.9 — up to +12.0 composite points

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Standards implemented 2

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Consumer Data Standards

tagged — the provider's own APIs.json carries the standard as a tag; implementation not verified

OpenAPI

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APIs 5

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Australian Energy Market Commission Glossary API

Defined terms for a rule version.

Australian Energy Market Commission Rule Content API

The structural tree of a rule version — chapters, parts, divisions, rules and clauses.

Australian Energy Market Commission Rule Versions API

Versions of the National Electricity, Gas and Energy Retail Rules, with their published PDF and DOCX artefacts.

Australian Energy Market Commission Search API

Full-text search within a single rule version.

Australian Energy Market Commission Settings API

Application settings exposed to the client.

Open Collections 1

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

AEMC Energy Rules API

OPEN COLLECTION

Agent Skills 3

Packaged agent skills for driving this provider's APIs from an AI assistant.

Look up a rule in the current Australian energy rules

AGENT SKILL

Search the energy rules and resolve defined terms

AGENT SKILL

Track energy rule versions over time

AGENT SKILL

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Aemc Rate Limits

0 limits

RATE LIMITS

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

Australian Energy Market Commission API Rules

54 rules · 52 errors 1 warnings 1 info

SPECTRAL

OpenAPI Overlays 1

Overlays applied on top of this provider's contracts. Each card says who wrote it: a document the provider publishes, or one API Evangelist derived or generated.

Aemc Energy Rules Overlay

4 actions · update · aemc-energy-rules-openapi-derived.yml

DERIVED

Examples 7

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

Aemc Energy Rules Getglossarymenu

1 fields

EXAMPLE

Aemc Energy Rules Getglossaryterm

3 fields

EXAMPLE

Aemc Energy Rules Getrulecontent

2 fields

EXAMPLE

Aemc Energy Rules Getruletableofcontents

3 fields

EXAMPLE

Aemc Energy Rules Listglossarytermsbyletter A

1 fields

EXAMPLE

Aemc Energy Rules Listruleversions Ner

3 fields

EXAMPLE

Aemc Energy Rules Searchruleversion

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EXAMPLE

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Security Posture 2

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Aemc Authentication

none · 0 schemes

SECURITY

Aemc Domain Security

TLSv1.2 · DMARC

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Aemc Agentic Access

9 operations

9 operations · 0 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

DataPortal

DataPortal

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

OpenAPI

OpenAPI

Agent Surfaces 4

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

X-MCPServerCandidate

AgentSkill

LLMsTxt

AgenticAccess

Design & Contract 5

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Conventions

ErrorCatalog

DataModel

Lifecycle

Conformance

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Examples

Examples

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Authentication

Authentication

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 4

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Contact

Support

RateLimits

ChangeLog

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

Company 3

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

About

About

Blog

Blog

Other 4

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

RSS

Regulation

RuleChanges

Overlay

Source (apis.yml)

aid: aemc
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/aemc/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
name: Australian Energy Market Commission
kind: company
description: The Australian Energy Market Commission (AEMC) is the independent statutory rule maker for Australia's energy
  markets, established in 2005 and based in Sydney. It makes and amends the National Electricity Rules, National Gas Rules
  and National Energy Retail Rules, conducts market reviews, and advises the Energy and Climate Change Ministerial Council.
  It sits upstream of every other body in the Australian energy value chain — it writes the obligations that AEMO operates,
  that the AER enforces, and that retailers and networks must meet — but it operates no market systems and holds no consumer
  data itself. AEMC publishes no developer portal, no documented API, no OpenAPI and no open data product, and the corporate
  Drupal site at www.aemc.gov.au returns 404 for /api, /openapi.json, /swagger.json, /api-docs, /jsonapi and /graphql. It
  does, however, run one real machine-readable surface that it does not advertise — the Energy Rules application at energy-rules.aemc.gov.au
  is backed by an undocumented, entirely anonymous JSON API at /api/v1 that serves the full versioned text of all three rule
  books — 304 versions of the National Electricity Rules, 115 of the National Gas Rules and 65 of the National Energy Retail
  Rules — with a table of contents, per-clause content, full-text search, a complete defined-terms glossary and links to every
  published PDF and DOCX. That API is captured here as a derived OpenAPI built from AEMC's own production JavaScript bundle
  plus live probes. The other finding that matters is regulatory rather than technical — on 18 December 2025 the AEMC made
  a final rule giving all consumers and their AEMO-accredited representatives a right to real-time data from smart meters,
  with AEMO required to publish the technical procedures by 30 November 2026 and the meter obligation commencing 30 November
  2028 — a mandate designated but not live, and separate from the Consumer Data Right, which is administered by Treasury,
  the ACCC and the Data Standards Body, with retailers as primary and AEMO as secondary data holder. AEMC is not a CDR data
  holder.
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: true
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: high
  source:
  - openapi
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source:
  - authentication
  - rate-limits
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
image: https://www.aemc.gov.au/sites/default/files/AEMC_RGB_Favicon_swirl_STRONG_512x512px.png
tags:
- Energy
- Australia
- Energy Markets
- Electricity
- Gas
- Utilities
- Regulations
- Smart Metering
- Consumer Data Right
- Government
- Legal
- Rules
tags_raw:
- Energy
- Australia
- Energy Markets
- Electricity
- Gas
- Utilities
- Regulation
- Smart Metering
- Consumer Data Right
- Government
- Legal
- Rules
created: '2026-07-27'
modified: '2026-09-16'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: aemc:aemc-glossary-api
  name: Australian Energy Market Commission Glossary API
  description: Defined terms for a rule version.
  humanURL: https://energy-rules.aemc.gov.au/
  baseURL: https://energy-rules.aemc.gov.au/api/v1
  tags:
  - Glossary
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/aemc-glossary-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Examples
    url: examples/_index.yml
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/aemc-authentication.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: rate-limits/aemc-rate-limits.yml
  - type: ErrorCatalog
    url: errors/aemc-problem-types.yml
  - type: Conventions
    url: conventions/aemc-conventions.yml
  - type: DataModel
    url: data-model/aemc-data-model.yml
  - type: Lifecycle
    url: lifecycle/aemc-lifecycle.yml
  - type: ChangeLog
    url: changelog/aemc-changelog.yml
  - type: Conformance
    url: conformance/aemc-conformance.yml
  - type: Portal
    url: https://energy-rules.aemc.gov.au/
- aid: aemc:aemc-rule-content-api
  name: Australian Energy Market Commission Rule Content API
  description: The structural tree of a rule version — chapters, parts, divisions, rules and clauses.
  humanURL: https://energy-rules.aemc.gov.au/
  baseURL: https://energy-rules.aemc.gov.au/api/v1
  tags:
  - Rule Content
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/aemc-rule-content-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Examples
    url: examples/_index.yml
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/aemc-authentication.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: rate-limits/aemc-rate-limits.yml
  - type: ErrorCatalog
    url: errors/aemc-problem-types.yml
  - type: Conventions
    url: conventions/aemc-conventions.yml
  - type: DataModel
    url: data-model/aemc-data-model.yml
  - type: Lifecycle
    url: lifecycle/aemc-lifecycle.yml
  - type: ChangeLog
    url: changelog/aemc-changelog.yml
  - type: Conformance
    url: conformance/aemc-conformance.yml
  - type: Portal
    url: https://energy-rules.aemc.gov.au/
- aid: aemc:aemc-rule-versions-api
  name: Australian Energy Market Commission Rule Versions API
  description: Versions of the National Electricity, Gas and Energy Retail Rules, with their published PDF and DOCX artefacts.
  humanURL: https://energy-rules.aemc.gov.au/
  baseURL: https://energy-rules.aemc.gov.au/api/v1
  tags:
  - Rule Versions
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/aemc-rule-versions-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Examples
    url: examples/_index.yml
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/aemc-authentication.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: rate-limits/aemc-rate-limits.yml
  - type: ErrorCatalog
    url: errors/aemc-problem-types.yml
  - type: Conventions
    url: conventions/aemc-conventions.yml
  - type: DataModel
    url: data-model/aemc-data-model.yml
  - type: Lifecycle
    url: lifecycle/aemc-lifecycle.yml
  - type: ChangeLog
    url: changelog/aemc-changelog.yml
  - type: Conformance
    url: conformance/aemc-conformance.yml
  - type: Portal
    url: https://energy-rules.aemc.gov.au/
- aid: aemc:aemc-search-api
  name: Australian Energy Market Commission Search API
  description: Full-text search within a single rule version.
  humanURL: https://energy-rules.aemc.gov.au/
  baseURL: https://energy-rules.aemc.gov.au/api/v1
  tags:
  - Search
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/aemc-search-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Examples
    url: examples/_index.yml
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/aemc-authentication.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: rate-limits/aemc-rate-limits.yml
  - type: ErrorCatalog
    url: errors/aemc-problem-types.yml
  - type: Conventions
    url: conventions/aemc-conventions.yml
  - type: DataModel
    url: data-model/aemc-data-model.yml
  - type: Lifecycle
    url: lifecycle/aemc-lifecycle.yml
  - type: ChangeLog
    url: changelog/aemc-changelog.yml
  - type: Conformance
    url: conformance/aemc-conformance.yml
  - type: Portal
    url: https://energy-rules.aemc.gov.au/
- aid: aemc:aemc-settings-api
  name: Australian Energy Market Commission Settings API
  description: Application settings exposed to the client.
  humanURL: https://energy-rules.aemc.gov.au/
  baseURL: https://energy-rules.aemc.gov.au/api/v1
  tags:
  - Settings
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/aemc-settings-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Examples
    url: examples/_index.yml
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/aemc-authentication.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: rate-limits/aemc-rate-limits.yml
  - type: ErrorCatalog
    url: errors/aemc-problem-types.yml
  - type: Conventions
    url: conventions/aemc-conventions.yml
  - type: DataModel
    url: data-model/aemc-data-model.yml
  - type: Lifecycle
    url: lifecycle/aemc-lifecycle.yml
  - type: ChangeLog
    url: changelog/aemc-changelog.yml
  - type: Conformance
    url: conformance/aemc-conformance.yml
  - type: Portal
    url: https://energy-rules.aemc.gov.au/
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://www.aemc.gov.au/
- type: About
  url: https://www.aemc.gov.au/about-us
- type: Contact
  url: https://www.aemc.gov.au/contact-us
- type: Support
  url: https://www.aemc.gov.au/contact-us
- type: Documentation
  url: https://www.aemc.gov.au/regulation/energy-rules
- type: DataPortal
  url: https://www.aemc.gov.au/news-centre/data-portal
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.aemc.gov.au/news-centre/media-releases
- type: RSS
  url: https://www.aemc.gov.au/rss.xml
- type: Regulation
  url: https://www.aemc.gov.au/regulation/energy-rules/national-electricity-rules
- type: RuleChanges
  url: https://www.aemc.gov.au/our-work/changing-energy-rules/rule-changes
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.aemc.gov.au/terms-use
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.aemc.gov.au/terms-use/privacy
- type: OpenAPI
  url: openapi/_original/aemc-energy-rules-openapi-derived.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/aemc-authentication.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/aemc-conventions.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/aemc-problem-types.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/aemc-rate-limits.yml
- type: Examples
  url: examples/_index.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/aemc-data-model.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/aemc-lifecycle.yml
- type: ChangeLog
  url: changelog/aemc-changelog.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/aemc-conformance.yml
- type: X-MCPServerCandidate
  url: mcp/aemc-mcp.yml
  note: 'Renamed from MCPServer 2026-09-03 (roadmap#247): the manifest self-describes as status: candidate — a tool list derived
    from the published API contracts, not an existing server. The scorer already read the manifest and reported mcp_server
    correctly; the MCPServer type was crediting the artifact-type surfaces with a server that does not exist.'
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
- type: Overlay
  url: overlays/aemc-energy-rules-overlay.yaml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/aemc-llms.txt
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/aemc-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/aemc-domain-security.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

Australian Energy Market Commission API — frequently asked questions

Does Australian Energy Market Commission have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 5 APIs from Australian Energy Market Commission, including Australian Energy Market Commission Glossary API, Australian Energy Market Commission Rule Content API and Australian Energy Market Commission Rule Versions API, and 2 more.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the Australian Energy Market Commission API?

Yes. APIs.io indexes 5 OpenAPI specifications for Australian Energy Market Commission, each linked for download from this page.

How do I authenticate with the Australian Energy Market Commission API?

Australian Energy Market Commission uses bearer-token authentication (none · 0 schemes). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Aemc Authentication.

Is the Australian Energy Market Commission API ready for AI agents?

Australian Energy Market Commission has a Kin Score of 29.8 out of 100 (thin) and an Agent Readiness score of 28.3 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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