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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 engineering blog, support, authentication, code examples, documentation, developer portal, and 35 more developer resources.

23.8/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 15/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-08-17 · rubric v0.11.0
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EnergyAustraliaUtilitiesElectricityGridDistribution NetworkOpen DataSmart MeteringConsumer Data RightSolarDEROutages

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scored 2026-08-17 · rubric v0.11.0
Composite quality — 23.8/100 · emerging
Contract Quality 0.0 / 21
Developer Ergonomics 7.3 / 17
Commercial Clarity 3.6 / 17
Operational Transparency 1.2 / 11
Governance 0.6 / 10
Discoverability 4.9 / 9
Regulatory Posture 6.3 / 15
Agent readiness — 15/100 · agent aware
Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8
Request/Response Examples 7 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 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
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Examples 4

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

Security Posture 3

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

Ausgrid Authentication

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SECURITY

Ausgrid Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

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Ausgrid Vulnerability Disclosure

security.txt

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Resources

Get Started 2

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Documentation 8

Reference material describing how the API behaves

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Agent Surfaces 3

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Design & Contract 6

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Build 2

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Access & Security 4

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Company 4

The organization behind the API

Other 9

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

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Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑
aid: ausgrid
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/ausgrid/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
name: Ausgrid
kind: company
description: '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.'
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/ausgrid.png
tags:
- Energy
- Australia
- Utilities
- Electricity
- Grid
- Distribution Network
- Open Data
- Smart Metering
- Consumer Data Right
- Solar
- DER
- Outages
created: '2026-07-27'
modified: '2026-07-27'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis: []
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/ausgrid-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.ausgrid.com.au/
- type: About
  url: https://www.ausgrid.com.au/about-us
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.ausgrid.com.au/about-us/newsroom
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.ausgrid.com.au/ausgrid-privacy-policy
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.ausgrid.com.au/disclaimer
- type: Support
  url: https://www.ausgrid.com.au/outages-and-issues/customer-support
- type: Security
  url: https://www.ausgrid.com.au/outages-and-issues/customer-support/ausgrid-vulnerability-disclosure-program
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/ausgrid-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/ausgrid-well-known.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/ausgrid-authentication.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/ausgrid-conventions.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/ausgrid-problem-types.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/ausgrid-lifecycle.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/ausgrid-conformance.yml
- type: Vocabulary
  url: vocabulary/ausgrid-vocabulary.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/ausgrid-data-model.yml
- type: Examples
  url: examples/ausgrid-examples.yml
- type: Packages
  url: packages/ausgrid-packages.yml
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/ausgrid-llms.txt
- type: Reference
  url: arcgis/ausgrid-dtapr-2023-featureserver.json
- type: Reference
  url: arcgis/ausgrid-dtapr-2023-layer0.json
- type: Reference
  url: arcgis/ausgrid-uhc-featureserver.json
- type: Reference
  url: arcgis/ausgrid-uhc-layer0-primary.json
- type: Reference
  url: arcgis/ausgrid-uhc-layer1-secondary.json
- type: Reference
  url: arcgis/ausgrid-arcgis-rest-info.json
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/ausgrid/
- type: Data
  url: https://www.ausgrid.com.au/about-us/about-ausgrid/research-data-sets
- type: Data
  url: https://www.ausgrid.com.au/about-us/about-ausgrid/research-data-sets/distribution-zone-substation-data
- type: Data
  url: https://www.ausgrid.com.au/about-us/about-ausgrid/research-data-sets/average-electricity-use
- type: Data
  url: https://www.ausgrid.com.au/about-us/about-ausgrid/research-data-sets/electricity-research
- type: Data
  url: https://data.nsw.gov.au/data/organization/ausgrid
- type: Data
  url: https://dtapr.ausgrid.com.au/
- type: Data
  url: https://portal.data.nsw.gov.au/arcgis/rest/services/Hosted/Ausgrid_DTAPR_2023/FeatureServer
- type: Data
  url: https://portal.data.nsw.gov.au/arcgis/rest/services/Hosted/Ausgrid_UHC_Data/FeatureServer
- type: Documentation
  url: https://www.ausgrid.com.au/your-energy-use/your-meter-and-supply/access-your-meter-data
- type: Documentation
  url: https://www.ausgrid.com.au/about-us/regulation-and-compliance/network-planning/dtapr
- type: Portal
  url: https://services.ausgrid.com.au/SignIn
- type: Portal
  url: https://idoportal.ausgrid.com.au/
- type: Outages
  url: https://www.ausgrid.com.au/outages
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com