Ausgrid
Ausgrid is the largest electricity distribution network service provider on Australia's east coast, operating the poles, wires, substations and underground cables that deliver power to more than 1.8 million customers across Sydney, the Central Coast and the Hunter Valley in New South Wales. It sits in the regulated middle of the value chain — between the National Electricity Market and the retailers who bill the customer — and it earns a regulated revenue rather than selling energy. Its API posture is honestly split and worth stating plainly. On the open side, Ausgrid publishes genuinely open network data: twenty years (2005–2025) of 15-minute interval demand readings for more than 180 zone substations as freely downloadable zipped CSV, plus average electricity use and past outage datasets catalogued on the NSW Government CKAN portal under CC-BY, none of which require a login, key or agreement. On the consumer side it is closed: a customer's own interval meter data is obtained through a web form that verifies NMI, account name and postcode and is answered in 10 to 20 business days, with a signed consent form required for any third party — there is no consumer API. Australia's Consumer Data Right was extended to energy and is live, but the designation lands on electricity retailers as primary data holders with AEMO as the gateway; Ausgrid is a distributor and does not appear among the 84 energy brands in the public CDR Register, so the mandate proven in banking routes around the business that physically holds the meter. Ausgrid publishes no developer portal, no OpenAPI, and no documented API of any kind; the only machine-readable surfaces found are the undocumented internal JSON routes behind its own outage map.
Ausgrid is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Energy, Australia, Utilities, Electricity, and Grid.
Ausgrid’s developer surface includes pricing, engineering blog, support, code examples, documentation, developer portal, and 38 more developer resources.
Kin Score
Kin Score
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- Machine-Readable Contract +18 pts — api_specs includes an OpenAPI document
- MCP Server +12 pts — deployment.mode + probe verdict on the mcp/ manifest, not the pointer; an unprobed slug falls back to authorship
- Agentic Access Contract +10 pts — agentic_access artifact present (x-agentic-access), graded by author
- Machine-Readable Auth +10 pts — a served openid-configuration/oauth-authorization-server carrying `issuer` (served), else the securitySchemes class in the provider OpenAPIs — bound (mutualTLS, DPoP, Signature) > negotiable (oauth2 authorizationCode/clientCredentials, openIdConnect) > bearer (http bearer, apiKey)
- Idempotency +9 pts — OpenAPI mutating operations declare an idempotency key — a header, a request-body property, or a named de-duplication token whose own description says so (verified); else common[].type matches /idempoten/i (documented)
- A2A Agent Card +8 pts — a2a/
-a2a.yml manifest, graded on conformance.grade against A2A 1.0.0
- Contract Quality scores 6.5 — up to +23.4 composite points
- Developer Ergonomics scores 35.1 — up to +13.0 composite points
- Access Clarity scores 39.5 — up to +12.1 composite points
Standards implemented 1
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Agent Skills 2
Packaged agent skills for driving this provider's APIs from an AI assistant.
ausgrid-hosting-capacity-lookup
AGENT SKILLausgrid-zone-substation-demand-data
AGENT SKILLAusgrid API pricing
Pricing Plans 1
Published pricing tiers and plan structures.
Rate Limits 1
Documented rate limits and quota policies.
Ausgrid Rate Limits
RATE LIMITSExamples 4
Example request and response payloads for these APIs.
Security Posture 3
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.
Resources
Get Started 3
Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call
Documentation 8
Reference material describing how the API behaves
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Agent Surfaces 2
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Design & Contract 6
Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events
Build 1
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 3
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Operate 3
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 3
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 4
The organization behind the API
Other 11
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
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Source (apis.yml)
Ausgrid API — frequently asked questions
How do I authenticate with the Ausgrid API?
Ausgrid documents its authentication (0 schemes). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Ausgrid Authentication.
Is the Ausgrid API ready for AI agents?
Ausgrid has a Kin Score of 25.8 out of 100 (emerging) and an Agent Readiness score of 5.4 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.
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