Open Electricity

Overview

Open Electricity is a developer platform for Australian electricity data with a REST API at https://api.openelectricity.org.au/v4 that returns JSON and requires an API key. It documents real-time and historical generation, demand, price and emissions data across the National Electricity Market and the Western Australian Wholesale Electricity Market, with power, energy, emissions, price, demand and renewable proportion data and historical records going back to 1999. Its emissions guide explains that CO2 emissions are calculated from generation using facility-specific emissions intensity factors sourced from AEMO, and it publishes official Python and TypeScript client libraries. The platform's sign-up page invites new users to get started free.

Editorial verdict

Fits Australian energy and software teams that need National Electricity Market and Western Australian market generation, demand, price and emissions data through a documented REST API, with facility-specific intensity factors from AEMO and history back to 1999 for backtesting. Official Python and TypeScript clients shorten integration. The trade-off is geography and scope: coverage is Australia only, and it is an emissions data source rather than a measurement tool, so attributing energy to the caller's own workloads stays in their code. A free account gets evaluation moving; commercial terms beyond self-service sign-up are not published.

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Use cases

• Pull real-time emissions and generation data for Australian regions
• Build dashboards on five-minute AEMO dispatch data
• Backtest trading and forecasting models on historical market data
• Track emissions intensity for workloads scheduled in Australia

Sources

• Open Electricity platform
• Open Electricity emissions guide
• Open Electricity API reference
• OpenNEM open-source repository