# Origin Energy **Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/origin-energy/ **Website:** https://www.originenergy.com.au/ **APIs profiled:** 7 Origin Energy Limited is Australia's largest energy retailer, an ASX-listed integrated gas and electricity company headquartered in Sydney that supplies roughly 4.5 million electricity, natural gas, LPG and broadband customer accounts, operates the Eraring Power Station and a large gas-fired and renewable generation portfolio, holds a stake in the Australia Pacific LNG project, and runs the Origin Loop virtual power plant. It sits at the retail end of the National Electricity Market value chain, buying and generating wholesale energy and selling it to households and businesses. Its API posture is defined almost entirely by regulation rather than by a developer strategy: Origin is a designated energy data holder under Australia's Consumer Data Right and that obligation is genuinely implemented — it appears on the CDR Register with its own public base URI, serves the Consumer Data Standards discovery endpoints anonymously, and presents an mTLS resource endpoint whose TLS certificate is issued by the ACCC's own CDR Certificate Authority — but every byte of actual customer usage, billing and DER data behind that surface is reachable only by an accredited data recipient acting on a consumer's consent. Alongside the mandate, Origin runs its retail business on Octopus Energy's Kraken platform (Origin holds an equity stake in Octopus and Kraken Technologies), which exposes a publicly readable partner developer portal with downloadable OpenAPI definitions, a GraphQL API, an external events catalogue and an OpenID Connect authorisation server — none of it self-serve. Origin publishes no open grid, market or system data of its own; the only anonymously retrievable data is its retail plan reference data, and that is served from the Australian Energy Regulator's Energy Made Easy CDR gateway, not from an Origin host. ## Kin Score — 60.8 / 100 (strong) Scored 2026-08-17 under rubric 0.11.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 60.8). | Facet | Score | |---|---| | Discoverability | 92.6 | | Contract Quality | 63.5 | | Governance | 20.8 | | Operational Transparency | 94.7 | | Developer Ergonomics | 56.0 | | Commercial Clarity | 44.7 | Regulatory layer — **Energy & Utilities**: 64.9 (matched via tags). ## Agent readiness — 57.0 (agent-native) | Dimension | Value | |---|---| | Spec Presence | yes | | Agentic Access | derived | | MCP Server | derived | | Auth Clarity | yes | | Idempotency | documented | | Error Semantics | verified | | OpenAPI Examples | partial | | Rate Limit Signal | documented | | Event Surface Described | yes | | Agent Skills | derived | | Well Known Catalog | no | | Consent Identity | yes | | Agent Card | no | | Dry Run Mode | no | ## Access Gated · CDR accreditation or Origin partner/customer account required — onboarding: approval, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: high). ## APIs (7) - **Origin Energy CDR Energy API** — Origin Energy's Consumer Data Right energy data holder resource endpoint, serving the Consumer Data Standards energy APIs (accounts, invoices, billing, balances, concessions, pa... - **Origin Energy CDR Public Discovery API** — The unauthenticated portion of Origin Energy's Consumer Data Right surface, published as the brand's publicBaseUri on the CDR Register. Verified anonymously on 2026-07-27 — GET ... - **Origin Energy Plan Reference Data API (AER Energy Made Easy)** — Origin Energy's retail electricity and gas plan reference data, exposed under the Consumer Data Standards Get Generic Plans and Get Generic Plan Detail endpoints. Hosted by the ... - **Origin Energy Kraken REST API** — The REST half of the Kraken platform API that Origin Energy runs its retail business on, documented at Origin's own publicly readable Kraken developer portal and described as av... - **Origin Energy Kraken GraphQL API** — The primary Kraken platform API for Origin Energy accounts, agreements, meter points, readings, payments, quotes and devices. Served at https://api.origin-kraken.energy/v1/graph... - **Origin Energy Kraken External Events** — Origin's publicly readable Kraken External Events reference, cataloguing several hundred versioned event types emitted by the platform. Confirmed HTTP 200 on 2026-07-27. The cat... - **Origin Energy Kraken Authorization Server** — The OpenID Connect authorisation server issuing the bearer tokens used by both the Kraken REST and GraphQL APIs. Its discovery document at https://auth.origin-kraken.energy/.wel... ## MCP servers (1) - **origin-energy-mcp.yml** ## Agentic access (1) - **Origin Energy Agentic Access** — 54 operations · 19 acting ## Security (3) - **Origin Energy Authentication** — openIdConnect/oauth2/apiKey/http/mutualTLS · 8 schemes - **Origin Energy Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC - **Origin Energy Vulnerability Disclosure** — Bugcrowd · security.txt · contact published ## Use cases (4) - **Consented Energy Data Sharing** — An accredited CDR data recipient obtains an Origin customer's usage, billing and service point data with that customer's consent, for comparison, budgeting or energy management. - **Retail Plan Comparison** — Anyone can pull Origin's 3,595 published electricity and gas plans anonymously from the AER Energy Made Easy CDR gateway to build a comparison or switching tool. - **Partner Platform Integration** — Origin partner organisations integrate with the Kraken REST and GraphQL APIs for account, payment, order and meter reading workflows. - **Customer Migration** — The Kraken data-import REST API ingests accounts, historical statements, transactions and payment instructions when customers are migrated onto the platform. ## Tags Energy, Australia, Utilities, Electricity, Gas, Energy Retail, Consumer Data Right, Smart Metering, Solar, DER, Demand Response, Energy Markets --- Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/origin-energy/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.