# Western Power

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/western-power/  
**Website:** https://www.westernpower.com.au/  
**APIs profiled:** 4

Western Power is the Western Australian state-owned statutory corporation that owns and operates the electricity transmission and distribution network — the poles, wires, substations and streetlights — across the South West Interconnected System (SWIS), from Kalbarri in the north to Albany in the south and east to Kalgoorlie, across more than 103,000 km of powerlines, 825,788 poles and towers, 276,000 streetlights and 154 transmission substations. It is a regulated network distributor (DNO/DSO), not a retailer and not a generator; Synergy is the SWIS retailer for residential and small-business customers and AEMO operates the WA Wholesale Electricity Market. Its API posture is honestly minimal — there is no developer portal, no published API program, no developer documentation and no published OpenAPI anywhere on westernpower.com.au (developer./api./docs./data. subdomains all fail to resolve; /developers, /docs and /openapi.json all return 404). It is nonetheless not API-less. Three anonymous machine-readable surfaces were verified on 2026-07-27 — an undocumented first-party JSON API at westernpower.com.au/api/corp/outage/* that backs the public outage tracker and returns every current and upcoming outage, one outage with hazard flags and update history, and a per-suburb rollup; an Esri ArcGIS Online feature service serving the same outages as polygons with SQL, spatial and statistical query; and the corporate site's own search, news and vacancy endpoints. All are internal endpoints of Western Power's web applications — robots.txt disallows /api/ — with no reference, no terms of use, no versioning, no SLA and no support channel. Consumer energy data is real but not programmatic — a third party must register a business with Western Power and collect verifiable customer consent, after which up to two years of interval and accumulated metering data is delivered by email or a web portal, never an API. Australia's Consumer Data Right, the mandate that forced identical banking APIs and was then transplanted into energy, does not reach this organisation at all — CDR energy covers National Electricity Market retailers, and Western Australia sits outside the NEM while distributors were never designated data holders in any state. Its 36 network asset and capacity datasets are published through the WA Government DataWA/SLIP portals as "open data subject to registering for access" under Western Power's own data licence — WFS, WMS and ArcGIS REST endpoints that return HTTP 401 to an anonymous caller.

## Kin Score — 43.6 / 100 (developing)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 43.6).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 81.5 |
| Contract Quality | 51.1 |
| Governance | 16.7 |
| Contract Governance | 16.7 |
| Operational Transparency | 5.3 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 39.9 |
| Commercial Clarity | 34.2 |
| Access Clarity | 34.2 |

Regulatory layer — **Energy & Utilities**: 54.1 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 40.1 (agent-ready)

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

## APIs (4)

- **Western Power Outage Web API** — The undocumented first-party JSON API behind the public Western Power outage tracker. The outage page declares its own endpoints in markup — all-outages-endpoint="/api/corp/outa...
- **Western Power Corporate Web API** — The anonymous read endpoints behind westernpower.com.au itself — site search, the news article feed and the careers vacancy feed. These are internal endpoints of the Optimizely/...
- **Western Power Outage Areas Feature Service** — Live outage data for the South West Interconnected System, served as an Esri ArcGIS Online hosted feature service (layer 0, "Outage_Areas") that backs the public Western Power o...
- **Western Power Public Secure Services (SLIP)** — Western Power's network asset and capacity spatial data — distribution and transmission overhead powerlines, underground cables, poles, pillars, pits, transformers, enclosures, ...

## MCP servers (1)

- **Western Power MCP Server**

## Agentic access (1)

- **Western Power Agentic Access** — 9 operations

## Security (2)

- **Western Power Authentication** — none/esri-token/session-cookie · 5 schemes
- **Western Power Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

## Tags

Energy, Australia, Utilities, Electricity, Grid, Network Distribution, Smart Metering, Open Data, GIS, Outages

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