# Essential Energy

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/essential-energy/  
**Website:** https://www.essentialenergy.com.au/  
**APIs profiled:** 3

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.

## Kin Score — 26.8 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-08-17 under rubric 0.11.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 26.8).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 81.5 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 15.1 |
| Operational Transparency | 10.5 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 42.9 |
| Commercial Clarity | 21.1 |

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

## Agent readiness — 17.6 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| 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 |

## APIs (3)

- **Essential Energy Network Asset Feature Services** — Anonymous, key-free ArcGIS REST FeatureServer endpoints publishing Essential Energy's physical distribution network as queryable geospatial features — poles (timber, concrete, m...
- **Essential Energy Hosting Capacity Feature Services** — Anonymous ArcGIS REST FeatureServer endpoints publishing Essential Energy's distributed energy resource hosting capacity — how much generation (GEN) and load (LOAD) the network ...
- **Essential Energy Network Planning and DAPR Feature Services** — Anonymous ArcGIS REST FeatureServer tables and layers publishing Essential Energy's regulated network planning data — zone substation summer and winter ratings and forecasts (DA...

## Agentic access (1)

- **Essential Energy Agentic Access** — 111 operations · 4 acting · 4 human-in-the-loop

## Security (3)

- **Essential Energy Authentication** — none · 2 schemes
- **Essential Energy Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC
- **Essential Energy Vulnerability Disclosure** — Hackerone

## Tags

Energy, Australia, Utilities, Electricity, Grid, Network Distributor, Open Data, GIS, DER, Hosting Capacity, EV Charging, Renewables, New South Wales

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