# Consumer Data Right (Energy)

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/cdr-energy/  
**Website:** https://www.cdr.gov.au/  
**APIs profiled:** 6

The Consumer Data Right (CDR) is Australia's statutory consumer data-sharing regime, created under Part IVD of the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 and extended from banking into electricity by the Consumer Data Right (Energy Sector) Designation 2020. It is run by three bodies: the ACCC as lead regulator and operator of the CDR Register, the OAIC as privacy regulator, and the Treasury Data Standards Body, which writes the binding Consumer Data Standards. In energy the regime obliges electricity retailers to expose plans, accounts, billing, invoices, payment schedules, concessions, service points, interval usage and DER data through one identical, versioned API contract, with AEMO acting as the Secondary Data Holder gateway for NMI standing data, metering data and the DER register. Unlike almost every other energy-sector data mandate, this one is verifiably implemented rather than merely announced: the public CDR Register listed 84 energy data holder brands with live public base URIs when probed on 2026-07-27, and 53 of those base URIs returned standards-conformant product data anonymously on the first request. Its API posture is a clean two-speed split — genuinely open, unauthenticated market data (retail plan and tariff reference data, plus the participant register itself) sitting alongside consumer data that is closed behind ACCC accreditation, mutual TLS, FAPI-grade OAuth 2.0 / OpenID Connect and explicit, revocable consumer consent. Home market Australia.

## Kin Score — 56.2 / 100 (strong)

Scored 2026-08-17 under rubric 0.11.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 56.2).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 83.3 |
| Contract Quality | 61.8 |
| Governance | 20.8 |
| Operational Transparency | 100.0 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 79.9 |
| Commercial Clarity | 7.9 |

Regulatory layer — **Energy & Utilities**: 52.7 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 46.4 (agent-ready)

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

## APIs (6)

- **CDR Register API** — The ACCC-operated Consumer Data Right Register, the ecosystem's source of truth for who is allowed to participate. Unauthenticated endpoints return the energy data holder brand ...
- **CDR Energy API** — The mandated energy data contract that every designated Australian electricity retailer must implement identically. Eighteen paths covering generic plan reference data, electric...
- **CDR Energy Secondary Data Holder API** — The gateway contract AEMO implements as the CDR Secondary Data Holder for energy. Retailers are the primary data holders for the customer relationship, but the physical data — N...
- **CDR Common API** — The cross-sector endpoints every CDR data holder must expose regardless of industry — GET /common/customer and /common/customer/detail for the consented customer's identity, and...
- **CDR Dynamic Client Registration API** — The onboarding contract. Rather than a developer portal issuing keys, an accredited data recipient presents a Software Statement Assertion obtained from the CDR Register and sel...
- **CDR Admin API** — The mandated reporting surface every data holder must expose to the ACCC — GET /admin/metrics returns availability, performance, invocation, error and rejection statistics, and ...

## MCP servers (1)

- **Candidate MCP tool surface derived from OpenAPI (no published server)**

## Security (2)

- **Cdr Energy Authentication** — oauth2/openIdConnect/mutualTLS/http · 5 schemes
- **Cdr Energy Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · DNSSEC · DMARC

## Tags

Energy, Australia, Utilities, Electricity, Consumer Data Right, Open Energy, Smart Metering, DER, Energy Markets, Regulation, Government, Open Data

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