Alinta Energy

Alinta Energy is one of Australia's largest integrated energy retailers and generators, owned by Hong Kong-based Chow Tai Fook Enterprises, supplying electricity and gas to more than a million homes and businesses across Western Australia, South Australia, Victoria, New South Wales and Queensland while operating an owned and contracted generation portfolio of roughly 3,000 MW spanning gas, coal, wind, solar and battery storage, plus the Lumo Energy retail brand. It sits at the retail end of the value chain — the tier the Australian Consumer Data Right binds. Alinta is a designated and live CDR energy data holder: its own public base URI https://public.cdr.alintaenergy.com.au serves the standards-conformant discovery endpoints (confirmed HTTP 200), and 493 of its energy plans are published anonymously through the CDR generic plan data channel — but that plan channel is hosted by the Australian Energy Regulator's Energy Made Easy platform, not by Alinta. Its API posture is therefore honestly summarised as mandate-implemented but developer-closed: everything of substance sits behind ACCC accreditation and consumer consent, Alinta publishes no developer portal, no self-serve API, no proprietary OpenAPI and no open grid or market data of its own.

Alinta Energy publishes 3 APIs on the APIs.io network: CDR Discovery API, CDR Generic Plan Data API, and CDR Energy API. Tagged areas include Energy, Australia, Utilities, Electricity, and Gas.

Alinta Energy’s developer surface includes authentication, changelog, documentation, API reference, support, status page, and 29 more developer resources.

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47.4/100 developing ▬ flat Agent 37/100 agent ready Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-08-20 · rubric v0.12.0

3 APIs 1 MCP Servers

EnergyAustraliaUtilitiesElectricityGasEnergy RetailConsumer Data RightCDROpen Energy DataSmart MeteringRenewablesGeneration

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scored 2026-08-20 · rubric v0.12.0

Composite quality — 47.4/100 · developing

Contract Quality 10.8 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 6.0 / 17

Access Clarity 3.6 / 17

Operational Transparency 7.3 / 11

Contract Governance 1.7 / 10

Discoverability 6.1 / 9

Regulatory Posture 8.5 / 15

Agent readiness — 37/100 · agent ready

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 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 0 / 4

Regulatory Posture applies to this provider. Its tags matched the Energy & Utilities regime, so Regulatory Posture carries 15 points of the composite. If this regime is wrong for your business, say so on your provider repo — the applicability map is public and we will correct it.

The six quality facets above are damped to 85 points between them, because the conditional facet above carries the other 15. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 85% of its nominal weight, not 100%. The full arithmetic is at apis.io/rating/.

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APIs 3

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

MCP Servers 1

Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.

Alinta Energy MCP Server

MCP SERVER

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Scopes 1

OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.

Alinta Energy Scopes

11 scopes · authorizationCode

11 scopes

SCOPES

Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Registry

Registry

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

APIReference

APIReference

Agent Surfaces 6

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

WellKnown

MCPServer

LLMsTxt

AgentSkill

AgentSkill

Design & Contract 5

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Conventions

ErrorCatalog

Lifecycle

Conformance

DataModel

Build 2

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Packages

Packages

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Access & Security 3

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Authentication

Authentication

OAuthScopes

OAuthScopes

Operate 6

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

StatusPage

Deprecation

RateLimits

ChangeLog

Support

Status

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

LinkedIn

Other 6

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Overlay

Overlay

Overlay

Overlay

ConsumerDataRight

ConsumerDataRight

ConsumerDataRight

ConsumerDataRight

APIStandards

APIStandards

Regulator

Regulator

Source (apis.yml)

aid: alinta-energy
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/alinta-energy/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
name: Alinta Energy
kind: company
description: 'Alinta Energy is one of Australia''s largest integrated energy retailers and generators, owned by Hong Kong-based
  Chow Tai Fook Enterprises, supplying electricity and gas to more than a million homes and businesses across Western Australia,
  South Australia, Victoria, New South Wales and Queensland while operating an owned and contracted generation portfolio of
  roughly 3,000 MW spanning gas, coal, wind, solar and battery storage, plus the Lumo Energy retail brand. It sits at the
  retail end of the value chain — the tier the Australian Consumer Data Right binds. Alinta is a designated and live CDR energy
  data holder: its own public base URI https://public.cdr.alintaenergy.com.au serves the standards-conformant discovery endpoints
  (confirmed HTTP 200), and 493 of its energy plans are published anonymously through the CDR generic plan data channel —
  but that plan channel is hosted by the Australian Energy Regulator''s Energy Made Easy platform, not by Alinta. Its API
  posture is therefore honestly summarised as mandate-implemented but developer-closed: everything of substance sits behind
  ACCC accreditation and consumer consent, Alinta publishes no developer portal, no self-serve API, no proprietary OpenAPI
  and no open grid or market data of its own.'
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/alinta-energy.png
tags:
- Energy
- Australia
- Utilities
- Electricity
- Gas
- Energy Retail
- Consumer Data Right
- CDR
- Open Energy Data
- Smart Metering
- Renewables
- Generation
created: '2026-07-27'
modified: '2026-07-27'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: alinta-energy:alinta-energy-cdr-discovery-api
  name: Alinta Energy CDR Discovery API
  description: The only API Alinta Energy serves from its own infrastructure that a developer can call anonymously. Two unauthenticated
    operations mandated by the Australian Consumer Data Standards for every data holder — GET /discovery/status and GET /discovery/outages
    — which report whether the data holder's CDR surface is operational and disclose planned or current outages. Both were
    confirmed live on 2026-07-27 with HTTP 200 and header x-v 1, returning status "OK" ("All services operational") and an
    empty outages array. No other path under this base URI resolves; /energy/plans and /common/customer both returned HTTP
    404.
  humanURL: https://consumerdatastandardsaustralia.github.io/standards/#discovery-apis
  baseURL: https://public.cdr.alintaenergy.com.au/cds-au/v1
  tags:
  - Consumer Data Right
  - Discovery
  - Status
  - Outages
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/alinta-energy-cds-common-api-openapi.yml
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://consumerdatastandardsaustralia.github.io/standards/#discovery-apis
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://consumerdatastandardsaustralia.github.io/standards/
  - type: Status
    url: https://public.cdr.alintaenergy.com.au/cds-au/v1/discovery/status
  - type: APIStandards
    url: https://consumerdatastandardsaustralia.github.io/standards/
- aid: alinta-energy:alinta-energy-cdr-generic-plan-data-api
  name: Alinta Energy CDR Generic Plan Data API
  description: Alinta Energy's public electricity and gas plan catalogue, exposed as the CDR energy Generic Plan Data endpoints
    GET /energy/plans and GET /energy/plans/{planId}. Confirmed live on 2026-07-27 with HTTP 200 returning meta.totalRecords
    of 493 Alinta plans, and a plan detail fetch for planId ALI1144886SRG2@EME returning HTTP 200 at x-v 3. This data is genuinely
    open — no key, no consent, no accreditation — but the critical fact is that it is NOT served by Alinta. Unlike Australian
    banking, where every bank hosts its own Product Reference Data, the CDR energy regime centralises generic plan data at
    the Australian Energy Regulator, and this endpoint runs on the AER's Energy Made Easy CDR platform under the retailer
    slug "alinta". Alinta's own host returns 404 for the same path.
  humanURL: https://www.energymadeeasy.gov.au/
  baseURL: https://cdr.energymadeeasy.gov.au/alinta/cds-au/v1
  tags:
  - Consumer Data Right
  - Energy Plans
  - Tariffs
  - Open Data
  - Electricity
  - Gas
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/alinta-energy-cds-energy-api-openapi.yml
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://consumerdatastandardsaustralia.github.io/standards/#energy-plans
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://consumerdatastandardsaustralia.github.io/standards/
  - type: APIStandards
    url: https://consumerdatastandardsaustralia.github.io/standards/
- aid: alinta-energy:alinta-energy-cdr-energy-api
  name: Alinta Energy CDR Energy API
  description: 'The mandated consumer data-sharing surface. As a designated CDR energy data holder (register brand ID 8bd0fd93-9d26-ee11-a83d-000d3a8830d6,
    ABN 22149658300), Alinta must serve the Consumer Data Standards energy resource endpoints — accounts, balances, invoices,
    billing, payment schedules, concessions, electricity service points, interval usage and distributed energy resources —
    to ACCC-accredited data recipients holding a valid consumer consent. No baseURL is recorded because none is published:
    the mTLS resource and infosec base URIs are disclosed only through the CDR Register''s authenticated data holder brand
    detail endpoint, which requires an accredited client certificate. Probes of secure., idp. and cdr. subdomains of alintaenergy.com.au
    did not resolve, and no /.well-known/openid-configuration is served anonymously. The contract below is the shared Data
    Standards Body specification Alinta implements, not an Alinta-authored document.'
  humanURL: https://www.alintaenergy.com.au/help-and-support/terms-and-conditions/consumer-data-right-cdr
  tags:
  - Consumer Data Right
  - Energy Accounts
  - Usage
  - Billing
  - Distributed Energy Resources
  - Consent
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/alinta-energy-cds-energy-api-openapi.yml
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/alinta-energy-cds-common-api-openapi.yml
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://consumerdatastandardsaustralia.github.io/standards/#energy-apis
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://consumerdatastandardsaustralia.github.io/standards/
  - type: ConsumerDataRight
    url: https://www.alintaenergy.com.au/help-and-support/terms-and-conditions/consumer-data-right-cdr
  - type: Registry
    url: https://api.cdr.gov.au/cdr-register/v1/energy/data-holders/brands/summary
  - type: APIStandards
    url: https://consumerdatastandardsaustralia.github.io/standards/
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/alinta-energy-domain-security.yml
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/alinta-energy-agentic-access.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/alinta-energy-authentication.yml
- type: OAuthScopes
  url: scopes/alinta-energy-scopes.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/alinta-energy-conventions.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/alinta-energy-problem-types.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/alinta-energy-lifecycle.yml
- type: StatusPage
  url: https://public.cdr.alintaenergy.com.au/cds-au/v1/discovery/status
- type: Deprecation
  url: https://consumerdatastandardsaustralia.github.io/standards/#versioning
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/alinta-energy-rate-limits.yml
- type: ChangeLog
  url: changelog/alinta-energy-changelog.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/alinta-energy-conformance.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/alinta-energy-data-model.yml
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/alinta-energy-well-known.yml
- type: Packages
  url: packages/alinta-energy-packages.yml
- type: MCPServer
  url: mcp/alinta-energy-mcp.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/alinta-energy-llms.txt
- type: Overlay
  url: overlays/alinta-energy-cds-energy-api-overlay.yaml
- type: Overlay
  url: overlays/alinta-energy-cds-common-api-overlay.yaml
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/alinta-energy-plan-catalogue.md
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/alinta-energy-cdr-availability.md
- type: Documentation
  url: https://consumerdatastandardsaustralia.github.io/standards/
- type: APIReference
  url: https://consumerdatastandardsaustralia.github.io/standards/#energy-apis
- type: Support
  url: https://www.alintaenergy.com.au/help-and-support/help-and-support/customer-support
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.alintaenergy.com.au/help-and-support/terms-and-conditions/website-terms-and-conditions
- type: ConsumerDataRight
  url: https://www.alintaenergy.com.au/help-and-support/terms-and-conditions/consumer-data-right-cdr/consumer-data-right-policy
- type: Website
  url: https://www.alintaenergy.com.au/
- type: ConsumerDataRight
  url: https://www.alintaenergy.com.au/help-and-support/terms-and-conditions/consumer-data-right-cdr
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.alintaenergy.com.au/help-and-support/terms-and-conditions/privacy-policy
- type: APIStandards
  url: https://consumerdatastandardsaustralia.github.io/standards/
- type: Registry
  url: https://api.cdr.gov.au/cdr-register/v1/energy/data-holders/brands/summary
- type: Regulator
  url: https://www.cdr.gov.au/
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/AlintaEnergy
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://au.linkedin.com/company/alinta-energy
- type: Status
  url: https://public.cdr.alintaenergy.com.au/cds-au/v1/discovery/status
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

Alinta Energy

Kin Score

APIs 3

Alinta Energy CDR Discovery API

Alinta Energy CDR Generic Plan Data API

Alinta Energy CDR Energy API

Open Collections 2

CDR Common API

CDR Energy API

MCP Servers 1

Alinta Energy MCP Server

Rate Limits 1

Alinta Energy Rate Limits

Security Posture 2

Alinta Energy Authentication

Alinta Energy Domain Security