URL: /changelog --- title: "Changelog" description: "Product updates and release notes for Open Electricity" icon: 'calendar' --- Stay up to date with the latest features, improvements, and bug fixes in Open Electricity. ## Major Features - **Renewable Energy Proportion Tracking** - Real-time renewable energy percentage tracking across the network ([#423](https://github.com/opennem/opennem/issues/423)) - New milestone type in RecordReactor for tracking [renewable proportion](https://github.com/opennem/opennem/issues/398) - Significance scoring for renewable energy records - Exposed via API endpoints for programmatic access - **Max Generation Tracking** - Historical peak generation capacity tracking per facility unit ([#461](https://github.com/opennem/opennem/issues/461)) - New `max_generation` and `max_generation_interval` fields on facility units - Available via Facilities API endpoints ## Infrastructure & Technology Upgrades - **Python 3.14 Support** - Platform upgraded to Python 3.14 for improved performance and compatibility ([#468](https://github.com/opennem/opennem/issues/468)) - Updated python-sanity dependency with async client and HTTP/2 support - Migrated from clickhouse-connect to clickhouse-http driver - Enhanced async patterns and event loop handling - **Unified HTTP Client** - New rnet-based HTTP client replacing legacy libraries ([#466](https://github.com/opennem/opennem/issues/466), [#467](https://github.com/opennem/opennem/issues/467), [#475](https://github.com/opennem/opennem/issues/475)) - Resolve crawl request errors with new rust-based HTTP client for all requests - **Granian ASGI Server** - Application server upgraded from Hypercorn to Granian ([#476](https://github.com/opennem/opennem/issues/476)) - Better resource utilization ## API Improvements - **Facility API Enhancements** - Expanded facility endpoint capabilities ([#464](https://github.com/opennem/opennem/issues/464)) - Filter facilities by fueltech group - Unit datetime metadata fields synchronized from CMS - Timezone-aware datetime handling per network - Improved serialization excluding None values ## Bug Fixes - **Curtailment Data Alignment** - Fixed AEMO timestamp handling for curtailment data ([#455](https://github.com/opennem/opennem/issues/455)) - **Interval Limits** - Increased max interval days for better data coverage ([#454](https://github.com/opennem/opennem/issues/454)) - **Data Storage** - Fixed empty price data storage to prevent null records - **Market Summary** - Fixed market summary refresh and column alignment - **Worker Stability** - Catchup worker now runs all aggregates correctly - **Battery Mapping** - Fixed battery unit mapping schema parsing issues - **Export Controller** - Resolved ClickHouse query iteration and record processing - **API Responses** - Fixed unset field handling by setting response_model_exclude_unset to false - **Logging** - Reduced debug noise from httpcore and hpack, improved Logfire integration ## Documentation - Enhanced documentation for AEMO timestamp handling in curtailment data - Updated API documentation with new endpoints and fields - Infrastructure upgrade documentation and migration guides ## Major Features - **Pollution Data (NPI)** - Comprehensive pollution and emissions tracking from the National Pollutant Inventory now available across the platform ([#436](https://github.com/opennem/opennem/issues/436)) - Track greenhouse gases, air pollutants, and heavy metals from power generation facilities - Details in documentation at the [Pollution Guide](https://docs.openelectricity.org.au/guides/pollution) - Access via API endpoints for programmatic integration - Example implementations: - [Python client example](https://github.com/opennem/openelectricity-python/blob/main/examples/pollution.py) - [TypeScript client example](https://github.com/opennem/openelectricity-typescript/blob/main/examples/pollution.ts) - **Battery State of Charge** - Real-time battery storage level tracking showing current energy stored in battery facilities ([#434](https://github.com/opennem/opennem/issues/434)) - Monitor state of charge (SoC) at unit, facility, region and network levels - View battery storage docs in the [Battery Storage Guide](https://docs.openelectricity.org.au/guides/battery-storage) - New API endpoints for battery-specific data - Example implementations: - [Python client example](https://github.com/opennem/openelectricity-python/blob/main/examples/battery_storage.py) - [TypeScript client example](https://github.com/opennem/openelectricity-typescript/blob/main/examples/battery-storage.ts) - **Facility API Improvements** - Enhanced facility endpoint with additional fields ([#453](https://github.com/opennem/opennem/issues/453)) - Added NPI ID field for pollution data mapping - Added location data for facilities ## Improvements and Bug Fixes - **CPI Data Update** - Consumer Price Index data import and tracking ([#450](https://github.com/opennem/opennem/issues/450)) - **Curtailment Tracking** - Renamed `curtailment_solar` to `curtailment_solar_utility` for clarity ([#433](https://github.com/opennem/opennem/issues/433)) - **Battery Management** - Improved battery unit handling and aggregation ([#434](https://github.com/opennem/opennem/issues/434)) - **Record Tracking** - Fixed duplicate records with identical rounded values ([#451](https://github.com/opennem/opennem/issues/451)) - **Demand Energy** - Demand energy now sourced from analytics table ([#390](https://github.com/opennem/opennem/issues/390)) - **Unit Metadata** - Cleaned out obsolete unit metadata for better data integrity ## Documentation - New comprehensive guides for pollution data and battery storage - Updated API documentation with new endpoints - Added code examples for accessing new features in Python and TypeScript clients ## Major Features - **Curtailment Data** - Comprehensive curtailment tracking for renewable energy generation now available across the platform ([#433](https://github.com/opennem/opennem/issues/433)) - View curtailment data on the [Open Electricity website](https://explore.openelectricity.org.au) - Access via API endpoints for programmatic integration - Full documentation available in the [Curtailment Guide](https://docs.openelectricity.org.au/guides/curtailment) - Example implementations: - [Python client example](https://github.com/opennem/openelectricity-python/tree/main/examples/curtailment) - [TypeScript client example](https://github.com/opennem/openelectricity-typescript/tree/main/examples/curtailment) ## Bug Fixes - **Historic Price Data** - Fixed issues with historic price data retrieval and accuracy ([#309](https://github.com/opennem/opennem/issues/309)) ## Documentation - New comprehensive guide on understanding curtailment data - Updated API documentation with curtailment endpoints - Added code examples for accessing curtailment data in Python and TypeScript clients ## Major Features - **Capacity History Tracking** - New comprehensive capacity history output that includes rooftop solar and applies unit history tracking ([#415](https://github.com/opennem/opennem/issues/415)) - **CMS Integration** - Import CMS IDs to database for facilities and units for better tracking - **APVI Capacity History** - Controller to import APVI capacity history as unit histories ([#432](https://github.com/opennem/opennem/issues/432)) - **Unit Histories** - Enhanced unit histories with time axes for fields ([#431](https://github.com/opennem/opennem/issues/431)) ## Improvements - Battery split static map improvements and bug fixes ([#420](https://github.com/opennem/opennem/issues/420)) - Rooftop capacity storage enhancements ([#430](https://github.com/opennem/opennem/issues/430)) - Decimal precision improvements in unit_history table ([#431](https://github.com/opennem/opennem/issues/431)) - Gap-fill improvements for rooftop capacity history ([#415](https://github.com/opennem/opennem/issues/415)) ## Bug Fixes - Fixed WEM crawlers to include APVI month by default - Resolved postcode prefix mapping (1 is NSW in APVI client) - Fixed capacity chart task imports ([#415](https://github.com/opennem/opennem/issues/415)) - Corrected WEMDE trading price crawler length sanity checks - Resolved issues with DRX facilities in first seen checks - Fixed padding in query for rooftop capacities in capacity chart ([#415](https://github.com/opennem/opennem/issues/415)) ## Documentation - Updated migration documentation for v4.1 - Enhanced API documentation ## 🎉 Platform Beta Launch We're excited to announce the beta launch of the **Open Electricity Platform**! - Access at [platform.openelectricity.org.au](https://platform.openelectricity.org.au) - Sign up for early access and explore enhanced data analytics capabilities - Advanced visualizations and custom data exports ## SDK Releases ### Python Client - Official Open Electricity Python client library now available - Install via pip: `pip install openelectricity` - Full documentation and examples included ### TypeScript Client - Official Open Electricity TypeScript/JavaScript client library released - Install via npm: `npm install @opennem/client` - Type-safe API access with comprehensive type definitions ## API Enhancements - **Performance Improvements** - ORjson serialization on data and market endpoints for improved performance - **Milestones API** - New milestones endpoints with optimized caching - **Record Reactor** - Enhanced record reactor with Slack and Twitter alerts for significant events - **Solar Gap Filling** - Improved solar 5-minute gap fill handling for APVI interval sizes ## Social Integration - **Bluesky Client** - Added Bluesky social media integration - **Twitter Client** - Enhanced Twitter client for automated updates - **Record Alerts** - Automatic social media alerts for significant generation records ## Infrastructure - API v3 deprecation notice ([#424](https://github.com/opennem/opennem/issues/424)) - Sanity CMS syncing to database rewrite ([#422](https://github.com/opennem/opennem/issues/422)) - Enhanced facility and unit integrity monitoring ([#429](https://github.com/opennem/opennem/issues/429)) ## Bug Fixes - Fixed NEM interval check re-ordering and increased interval window - Corrected battery charge/discharge significance scoring - Resolved issues with regional demand calculations ([#412](https://github.com/opennem/opennem/issues/412)) - Fixed static historic records returning strings as data ([#403](https://github.com/opennem/opennem/issues/403))