Essential Energy is a New South Wales Government-owned statutory corporation and the distribution network service provider (DNSP) for 95 per cent of the geographic area of NSW plus parts of southern Queensland — the poles, wires, substations and streetlights, not the retail energy contract. Headquartered in Port Macquarie and formed in 2011 out of the restructure of Country Energy, it sits in the regulated network layer of the Australian electricity value chain alongside Ausgrid and Endeavour Energy, under Australian Energy Regulator economic regulation. Its API posture splits cleanly and the split is the finding: Essential Energy publishes NO consumer data API and NO developer portal, and it is NOT a designated data holder under the Consumer Data Right energy regime — the CDR energy obligation lands on electricity retailers and AEMO, not on distributors, and Essential Energy does not appear anywhere in the public CDR energy data-holder brand register. What it does publish, anonymously and without a key, is a genuinely open grid-data surface: an ArcGIS Online organisation exposing 100 public ArcGIS REST FeatureServers covering network assets (poles, spans, cables, transformers, substations, streetlights, service points), DER hosting capacity for generation and load, zone substation and distribution feeder forecasts from the Distribution Annual Planning Report, and EV charging suitability analysis. Open market and network data, closed consumer data.
Essential Energy publishes 3 APIs on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Energy, Australia, Utilities, Electricity, and Grid.
Essential Energy’s developer surface includes developer portal, documentation, authentication, code examples, support, engineering blog, and 24 more developer resources.
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Anonymous ArcGIS REST FeatureServer endpoints publishing Essential Energy's distributed energy resource hosting capacity — how much generation (GEN) and load (LOAD) the network ...
Anonymous ArcGIS REST FeatureServer tables and layers publishing Essential Energy's regulated network planning data — zone substation summer and winter ratings and forecasts (DA...
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name: Essential Energy
kind: company
description: 'Essential Energy is a New South Wales Government-owned statutory corporation and the distribution network service
provider (DNSP) for 95 per cent of the geographic area of NSW plus parts of southern Queensland — the poles, wires, substations
and streetlights, not the retail energy contract. Headquartered in Port Macquarie and formed in 2011 out of the restructure
of Country Energy, it sits in the regulated network layer of the Australian electricity value chain alongside Ausgrid and
Endeavour Energy, under Australian Energy Regulator economic regulation. Its API posture splits cleanly and the split is
the finding: Essential Energy publishes NO consumer data API and NO developer portal, and it is NOT a designated data holder
under the Consumer Data Right energy regime — the CDR energy obligation lands on electricity retailers and AEMO, not on
distributors, and Essential Energy does not appear anywhere in the public CDR energy data-holder brand register. What it
does publish, anonymously and without a key, is a genuinely open grid-data surface: an ArcGIS Online organisation exposing
100 public ArcGIS REST FeatureServers covering network assets (poles, spans, cables, transformers, substations, streetlights,
service points), DER hosting capacity for generation and load, zone substation and distribution feeder forecasts from the
Distribution Annual Planning Report, and EV charging suitability analysis. Open market and network data, closed consumer
data.'
image: https://www.essentialenergy.com.au/favicon.ico
tags:
- Energy
- Australia
- Utilities
- Electricity
- Grid
- Network Distributor
- Open Data
- GIS
- DER
- Hosting Capacity
- EV Charging
- Renewables
- New South Wales
created: '2026-07-27'
modified: '2026-07-27'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: essential-energy:essential-energy-network-asset-feature-services
name: Essential Energy Network Asset Feature Services
description: Anonymous, key-free ArcGIS REST FeatureServer endpoints publishing Essential Energy's physical distribution
network as queryable geospatial features — poles (timber, concrete, metal, composite), spans, cables, transformers, substations,
zone substation sites, streetlights and controllers, service points, switchgear, fuses, reclosers, pillars, pits, towers,
cross-arms, third-party attachments and the network service-area boundaries. Every service supports the standard ArcGIS
REST /query operation over HTTPS GET with no authentication. These are the services backing Essential Energy's public
Network Information Portal map viewer.
humanURL: https://essentialenergy.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=947af3fb3749427e97a4824dcbd49980
baseURL: https://services-ap1.arcgis.com/3o0vFs4fJRsuYuBO/arcgis/rest/services
tags:
- Grid
- GIS
- Network Assets
- Open Data
- Geospatial
properties:
- type: Reference
url: arcgis/essential-energy-arcgis-services-catalog.json
- type: Reference
url: arcgis/essential-energy-ee-service-areas-featureserver.json
- type: Reference
url: arcgis/essential-energy-substation-featureserver.json
- type: Reference
url: arcgis/essential-energy-arcgis-public-items.json
- type: Reference
url: arcgis/essential-energy-arcgis-portal-self.json
- type: APIReference
url: https://developers.arcgis.com/rest/services-reference/enterprise/feature-service/
- type: Documentation
url: https://engage.essentialenergy.com.au/access-to-network-data
- type: Portal
url: https://essentialenergy.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=947af3fb3749427e97a4824dcbd49980
- aid: essential-energy:essential-energy-hosting-capacity-feature-services
name: Essential Energy Hosting Capacity Feature Services
description: Anonymous ArcGIS REST FeatureServer endpoints publishing Essential Energy's distributed energy resource hosting
capacity — how much generation (GEN) and load (LOAD) the network can absorb — at substation level and as 1km, 5km and
15km hexbin aggregations, together with spare-capacity service areas and substation capacity layers. The service descriptions
self-identify as "Hosting Capacity MVP – GEN dataset for Experience Builder" and "Hosting Capacity MVP – LOAD dataset
for Experience Builder", and back the public network capacity map experience.
humanURL: https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/9e19707948544a3285a3631d0ed576f8
baseURL: https://services-ap1.arcgis.com/3o0vFs4fJRsuYuBO/arcgis/rest/services
tags:
- DER
- Hosting Capacity
- Solar
- Grid
- Open Data
properties:
- type: Reference
url: arcgis/essential-energy-hostingcapacity-substation-gen-featureserver.json
- type: Reference
url: arcgis/essential-energy-hostingcapacity-substation-load-featureserver.json
- type: Reference
url: arcgis/essential-energy-hostingcapacity-service-areas-featureserver.json
- type: Reference
url: arcgis/essential-energy-arcgis-services-catalog.json
- type: APIReference
url: https://developers.arcgis.com/rest/services-reference/enterprise/query-feature-service-layer/
- type: Portal
url: https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/9e19707948544a3285a3631d0ed576f8
- aid: essential-energy:essential-energy-network-planning-feature-services
name: Essential Energy Network Planning and DAPR Feature Services
description: Anonymous ArcGIS REST FeatureServer tables and layers publishing Essential Energy's regulated network planning
data — zone substation summer and winter ratings and forecasts (DAPR_ZS_Summer_v2, DAPR_ZS_Winter_v2, NIP_ZS_Forecast),
transmission line data (DAPR_TX_Lines) and distribution feeder forecasts (Distrib_Feeder_Fcasts) derived from the Distribution
Annual Planning Report that the Australian Energy Regulator requires every distributor to publish, plus EV charging point-of-interest
and pole-suitability analysis layers. The human-readable DAPR is separately published through a Rosetta Data Portal web
application, which exposes no API of its own.
humanURL: https://dapr.essentialenergy.com.au/
baseURL: https://services-ap1.arcgis.com/3o0vFs4fJRsuYuBO/arcgis/rest/services
tags:
- Energy Markets
- Network Planning
- Forecasting
- EV Charging
- Open Data
properties:
- type: Reference
url: arcgis/essential-energy-dapr-zs-summer-v2-featureserver.json
- type: Reference
url: arcgis/essential-energy-dapr-tx-lines-featureserver.json
- type: Reference
url: arcgis/essential-energy-distrib-feeder-fcasts-featureserver.json
- type: Reference
url: arcgis/essential-energy-nip-zs-forecast-featureserver.json
- type: Reference
url: arcgis/essential-energy-ev-pois-featureserver.json
- type: Documentation
url: https://dapr.essentialenergy.com.au/
- type: APIReference
url: https://developers.arcgis.com/rest/services-reference/enterprise/feature-service/
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
url: security/essential-energy-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
url: https://www.essentialenergy.com.au/
- type: LinkedIn
url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/essential-energy
- type: Portal
url: https://essentialenergy.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=947af3fb3749427e97a4824dcbd49980
- type: Documentation
url: https://engage.essentialenergy.com.au/access-to-network-data
- type: Documentation
url: https://dapr.essentialenergy.com.au/
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url: arcgis/essential-energy-arcgis-services-catalog.json
- type: Reference
url: arcgis/essential-energy-arcgis-public-items.json
- type: Reference
url: arcgis/essential-energy-arcgis-portal-self.json
- type: Reference
url: arcgis/essential-energy-arcgis-rest-info.json
- type: Reference
url: arcgis/essential-energy-service-capabilities.json
- type: Reference
url: arcgis/essential-energy-layer-field-schemas.json
- type: Reference
url: well-known/essential-energy-well-known.yml
- type: Authentication
url: authentication/essential-energy-authentication.yml
- type: Conventions
url: conventions/essential-energy-conventions.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
url: errors/essential-energy-problem-types.yml
- type: Lifecycle
url: lifecycle/essential-energy-lifecycle.yml
- type: Conformance
url: conformance/essential-energy-conformance.yml
- type: Vocabulary
url: vocabulary/essential-energy-vocabulary.yml
- type: DataModel
url: data-model/essential-energy-data-model.yml
- type: Examples
url: examples/essential-energy-examples.yml
- type: AgenticAccess
url: agentic-access/essential-energy-agentic-access.yml
- type: AgentSkill
url: skills/_index.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
url: llms/essential-energy-llms.txt
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
url: security/essential-energy-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: Security
url: https://www.essentialenergy.com.au/about-us/corporate-governance/vulnerability-disclosure-policy
- type: Support
url: https://www.essentialenergy.com.au/contact-us
- type: Blog
url: https://www.essentialenergy.com.au/media-centre/media-release
- type: PrivacyPolicy
url: https://www.essentialenergy.com.au/privacy
- type: TermsOfService
url: https://www.essentialenergy.com.au/termsofuse
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