Introduction

Open Electricity (formerly OpenNEM) is a platform for tracking and visualizing energy data from across Australia.

The Open Electricity project aims to make energy network data accessible to a wider audience of users and developersthrough a website portal and data access API’s and tools.

The Open Electricity project consists of two major components: the website and the API platform.

Website

The Open Electricity website is a public website that provides a tracker for energy data from across Australia.

• Explore energy data from across Australia
• Facilities: Map of Australian power station facilities and their data.
• Compare regions - Compare energy data across regions.
• Stripes - A visualization of the energy data history.
• Emissions - Visualisation of Australia’s emissions.

API Platform

• Open Electricity Platform - Signup for access to the API platform (docs).
• Python client library - Python client library for the Open Electricity API (docs).
• TypeScript client library - TypeScript client library for the Open Electricity API (docs).

Supported Data Sets

Currently supported electricity networks and data sources:

• NEM - Australia National Electricity Market - energy network data for Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, Tasmania and the Australian Capital Territory
• WEM - Australia Western Electricity Market - energy network data for Western Australia
• APVI - APVI - Rooftop solar data for Australia
• BoM - Bureau of Meteorology - weather data for Australia

About Open Electricity

Open Electricity is a project of The Superpower Institute, a not-for-profit organisation dedicated to accelerating the transition to a clean energy future. All code is open source and licensed under the MIT License. All data is made available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) licence — see the full licence for details.

Next Steps

Follow the next steps based on being a user of Open Electricity, a developer using the API or a developer looking to contribute to the project.