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Amber Electric

Amber Electric is an Australian electricity retailer (ABN 98623603805) that sells wholesale National Electricity Market pricing straight through to residential customers on a flat monthly membership, rather than marking energy up, and automates home batteries, solar exports and EV charging against those half-hourly prices. It sits at the retail end of the Australian energy value chain, between AEMO's wholesale market and the household meter. Its API posture is unusually honest and unusually split. Amber publishes a real, verbatim OpenAPI 3.0.0 contract for a REST API at https://api.amber.com.au/v1 covering sites, prices, forecasts and usage, but the token that unlocks it is generated inside the logged-in customer app at https://app.amber.com.au/developers, so the API is customer-account-required rather than self-serve — a developer who is not an Amber customer cannot obtain a key. One endpoint is the exception: the spec explicitly declares `security: []` on GET /state/{state}/renewables/current, and that grid renewables-percentage feed really does answer anonymously for NSW, VIC, QLD and SA, so open market data and gated consumer data live inside the same contract. Separately, Amber is a designated Consumer Data Right energy data holder that is genuinely live, not merely designated: it is listed on the ACCC CDR Register with a working public base URI at https://public.cdr.amber.com.au, whose CDS discovery endpoints and anonymously-served OpenID Connect configuration advertise the full Consumer Data Standards energy scope set behind private_key_jwt and CDR accreditation.

Amber Electric publishes 2 APIs on the APIs.io network: Sites API and State API. Tagged areas include Energy, Australia, Electricity, Utilities, and Consumer Data Right.

Amber Electric’s developer surface includes authentication, code examples, documentation, API reference, engineering blog, support, pricing, and 28 more developer resources.

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53.5/100 developing ▬ flat Agent 48/100 agent native open core · MIT Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0
1 APIs
EnergyAustraliaElectricityUtilitiesConsumer Data RightEnergy MarketsRenewablesSolarBatteriesDERSmart MeteringWholesale Pricing

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scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0
Composite quality — 53.5/100 · developing
Contract Quality 11.3 / 21
Developer Ergonomics 9.2 / 17
Access Clarity 7.6 / 17
Operational Transparency 2.6 / 11
Contract Governance 1.9 / 10
Discoverability 5.8 / 9
Regulatory Posture 11.1 / 15
Agent readiness — 48/100 · agent native
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 6 / 6
Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5
Registration Without a Human 6 / 6
Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5
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.
Create-or-Update Ergonomics does not apply to this provider. The published contracts declare no write operations, and a read-only API cannot create-or-update. The facet is excluded from this provider's denominator entirely — not scored zero. A reference or data API is not deficient for being unable to upsert.
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.

Amber Electric Consumer Data Right Energy API

Amber's Consumer Data Right energy data-holder surface, mandated by the Australian CDR regime extended from banking into energy and administered by the ACCC with standards set b...

Amber Electric Sites API

The Sites API from Amber Electric — 4 operation(s) for sites.

Amber Electric State API

The State API from Amber Electric — 1 operation(s) for state.

Open Collections 1

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

Amber Electric Public API

OPEN COLLECTION

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Amber Electric Rate Limits

1 limits

RATE LIMITS

Security Posture 2

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

Amber Electric Authentication

http/openIdConnect · 2 schemes

SECURITY

Amber Electric Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Scopes 1

OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.

Amber Electric Scopes

16 scopes · authorizationCode/clientCredentials

16 scopes

SCOPES

Agentic Access 1

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

Amber Electric Agentic Access

5 operations

5 operations · 0 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Get Started 2

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

DeveloperPortal
DeveloperPortal
 SignUp
SignUp

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation
Documentation
 APIReference
APIReference

Agent Surfaces 7

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess
AgenticAccess
 WellKnown
WellKnown
 LLMsTxt
LLMsTxt
 X-MCPServerCandidate
X-MCPServerCandidate
 AgentSkill
AgentSkill
 AgentSkill
AgentSkill
 AgentSkill
AgentSkill

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Design & Contract 5

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Conformance
Conformance
 ErrorCatalog
ErrorCatalog
 Lifecycle
Lifecycle
 Conventions
Conventions
 DataModel
DataModel

Build 5

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Packages
Packages
 SDKs
SDKs
 Examples
Examples
 SourceCode
SourceCode
 GitHubOrganization
GitHubOrganization

Access & Security 3

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity
DomainSecurity
 Authentication
Authentication
 OAuthScopes
OAuthScopes

Operate 4

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

IssueTracker
IssueTracker
 RateLimits
RateLimits
 Support
Support
 Community
Community

Commercial 4

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

License
License
 Pricing
Pricing
 TermsOfService
TermsOfService
 PrivacyPolicy
PrivacyPolicy

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website
Website
 Blog
Blog

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Overlay
Overlay

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: amber-electric
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/amber-electric/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
name: Amber Electric
kind: company
description: 'Amber Electric is an Australian electricity retailer (ABN 98623603805) that sells wholesale National Electricity
  Market pricing straight through to residential customers on a flat monthly membership, rather than marking energy up, and
  automates home batteries, solar exports and EV charging against those half-hourly prices. It sits at the retail end of the
  Australian energy value chain, between AEMO''s wholesale market and the household meter. Its API posture is unusually honest
  and unusually split. Amber publishes a real, verbatim OpenAPI 3.0.0 contract for a REST API at https://api.amber.com.au/v1
  covering sites, prices, forecasts and usage, but the token that unlocks it is generated inside the logged-in customer app
  at https://app.amber.com.au/developers, so the API is customer-account-required rather than self-serve — a developer who
  is not an Amber customer cannot obtain a key. One endpoint is the exception: the spec explicitly declares `security: []`
  on GET /state/{state}/renewables/current, and that grid renewables-percentage feed really does answer anonymously for NSW,
  VIC, QLD and SA, so open market data and gated consumer data live inside the same contract. Separately, Amber is a designated
  Consumer Data Right energy data holder that is genuinely live, not merely designated: it is listed on the ACCC CDR Register
  with a working public base URI at https://public.cdr.amber.com.au, whose CDS discovery endpoints and anonymously-served
  OpenID Connect configuration advertise the full Consumer Data Standards energy scope set behind private_key_jwt and CDR
  accreditation.'
deliveryModel:
  model: open-core
  license: MIT
  open_source: true
  commercial: true
  callable_host: true
  label: Open core · an OSS project plus a commercial hosted product
  confidence: high
  source:
  - license
  - 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
  - scopes
  - rate-limits
  - security
  generated: '2026-09-03'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/amber-electric.png
tags:
- Energy
- Australia
- Electricity
- Utilities
- Consumer Data Right
- Energy Markets
- Renewables
- Solar
- Batteries
- DER
- Smart Metering
- Wholesale Pricing
created: '2026-07-27'
modified: '2026-07-27'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: amber-electric:amber-electric-cdr-energy-api
  name: Amber Electric Consumer Data Right Energy API
  description: 'Amber''s Consumer Data Right energy data-holder surface, mandated by the Australian CDR regime extended from
    banking into energy and administered by the ACCC with standards set by the Data Standards Body. Amber is listed on the
    public CDR Register as an energy data holder brand (dataHolderBrandId 54968899-b7b5-ef11-95f6-6045bd3f1493, ABN 98623603805,
    lastUpdated 2026-07-23) with the public base URI https://public.cdr.amber.com.au. The implementation was verified live
    on 2026-07-27, not merely claimed: the Consumer Data Standards discovery endpoints /cds-au/v1/discovery/status and /cds-au/v1/discovery/outages
    both returned 200 with conformant CDS payloads, and /.well-known/openid-configuration is served anonymously. Access is
    accredited-only — dynamic client registration at https://secure.cdr.amber.com.au/connect/register with private_key_jwt
    client authentication and PAR, reachable only by an accredited CDR data recipient holding a software statement assertion
    from the CDR Register. No general developer can call it.'
  humanURL: https://www.cdr.gov.au/
  baseURL: https://public.cdr.amber.com.au/cds-au/v1
  tags:
  - Consumer Data Right
  - Energy
  - Open Data
  - Regulated
  - OpenID Connect
  - Australia
  properties:
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/amber-electric-cdr-openid-configuration.json
  - type: OpenIDConnectDiscovery
    url: https://public.cdr.amber.com.au/.well-known/openid-configuration
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://consumerdatastandardsaustralia.github.io/standards/
  - type: Registry
    url: https://api.cdr.gov.au/cdr-register/v1/energy/data-holders/brands/summary
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.cdr.gov.au/consumers/energy
  - type: OAuthScopes
    url: scopes/amber-electric-scopes.yml
- aid: amber-electric:amber-electric-sites-api
  name: Amber Electric Sites API
  description: The Sites API from Amber Electric — 4 operation(s) for sites.
  humanURL: https://app.amber.com.au/developers
  baseURL: https://api.amber.com.au/v1
  tags:
  - Sites
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/amber-electric-sites-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://app.amber.com.au/developers
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://app.amber.com.au/developers/documentation
  - type: SourceCode
    url: https://github.com/amberelectric/public-api
  - type: Support
    url: https://github.com/amberelectric/public-api/discussions
- aid: amber-electric:amber-electric-state-api
  name: Amber Electric State API
  description: The State API from Amber Electric — 1 operation(s) for state.
  humanURL: https://app.amber.com.au/developers
  baseURL: https://api.amber.com.au/v1
  tags:
  - States
  tags_raw:
  - State
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/amber-electric-state-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://app.amber.com.au/developers
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://app.amber.com.au/developers/documentation
  - type: SourceCode
    url: https://github.com/amberelectric/public-api
  - type: Support
    url: https://github.com/amberelectric/public-api/discussions
common:
- type: IssueTracker
  url: https://github.com/amberelectric/public-api/issues
- type: License
  name: MIT
  url: https://github.com/amberelectric/public-api/blob/main/LICENSE
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/amber-electric-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/amber-electric-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/amber-electric-authentication.yml
- type: Packages
  url: packages/amber-electric-packages.yml
- type: SDKs
  url: packages/amber-electric-packages.yml
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/amber-electric-well-known.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/amber-electric-llms.txt
- type: X-MCPServerCandidate
  url: mcp/amber-electric-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: Overlay
  url: overlays/amber-electric-public-api-overlay.yaml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/amber-electric-conformance.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/amber-electric-problem-types.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/amber-electric-lifecycle.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/amber-electric-conventions.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/amber-electric-rate-limits.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/amber-electric-data-model.yml
- type: Examples
  url: examples/amber-electric-examples.yml
- type: OAuthScopes
  url: scopes/amber-electric-scopes.yml
- type: AgentSkill
  name: Read live grid renewables for an Australian state
  url: skills/amber-electric-grid-renewables.md
- type: AgentSkill
  name: Read current and forecast electricity prices for an Amber site
  url: skills/amber-electric-site-prices.md
- type: AgentSkill
  name: Pull interval usage and cost history for an Amber site
  url: skills/amber-electric-usage-history.md
- type: Website
  url: https://amber.com.au/
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://app.amber.com.au/developers
- type: Documentation
  url: https://app.amber.com.au/developers
- type: APIReference
  url: https://app.amber.com.au/developers/documentation
- type: SourceCode
  url: https://github.com/amberelectric/public-api
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/amberelectric
- type: Blog
  url: https://amber.com.au/blog
- type: Support
  url: https://help.amber.com.au/
- type: Community
  url: https://github.com/amberelectric/public-api/discussions
- type: Pricing
  url: https://amber.com.au/pricing
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://amber.com.au/terms
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://amber.com.au/privacy
- type: SignUp
  url: https://app.amber.com.au/developers
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

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