# Ausgrid

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/ausgrid/  
**Website:** https://www.ausgrid.com.au/  
**APIs profiled:** 0

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.

## Kin Score — 23.8 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-08-17 under rubric 0.11.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 23.8).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 57.4 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 5.7 |
| Operational Transparency | 10.5 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 42.9 |
| Commercial Clarity | 21.1 |

Regulatory layer — **Energy & Utilities**: 41.9 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 15.3 (agent-aware)

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

## Security (3)

- **Ausgrid Authentication** — 0 schemes
- **Ausgrid Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC
- **Ausgrid Vulnerability Disclosure** — security.txt

## Tags

Energy, Australia, Utilities, Electricity, Grid, Distribution Network, Open Data, Smart Metering, Consumer Data Right, Solar, DER, Outages

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