# Alinta Energy

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/alinta-energy/  
**Website:** https://www.alintaenergy.com.au/  
**APIs profiled:** 3

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.

## Kin Score — 47.4 / 100 (developing)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 47.4).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 72.2 |
| Contract Quality | 51.0 |
| Governance | 16.7 |
| Contract Governance | 16.7 |
| Operational Transparency | 65.8 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 35.1 |
| Commercial Clarity | 21.1 |
| Access Clarity | 21.1 |

Regulatory layer — **Energy & Utilities**: 56.8 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 37.0 (agent-ready)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | verified |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | derived |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## APIs (3)

- **Alinta Energy CDR Discovery API** — 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 Stan...
- **Alinta Energy CDR Generic Plan Data API** — 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...
- **Alinta Energy CDR Energy API** — 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 t...

## MCP servers (1)

- **Alinta Energy MCP Server**

## Agentic access (1)

- **Alinta Energy Agentic Access** — 27 operations · 5 acting

## Security (2)

- **Alinta Energy Authentication** — none/oauth2/openIdConnect/mutualTLS · 4 schemes
- **Alinta Energy Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

## Tags

Energy, Australia, Utilities, Electricity, Gas, Energy Retail, Consumer Data Right, CDR, Open Energy Data, Smart Metering, Renewables, Generation

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/alinta-energy/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.