URL: /introduction

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title: Introduction
description: 'An Introduction to Open Electricity'
icon: 'house'
---

<Note>Open Electricity is currently in the process of being renamed from OpenNEM. There are still some repostories and projects yet to be renamed</Note>

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.

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  src="/images/openelectricity_page.png"
  alt="Open Electricity Tracker Screenshot"
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The Open Electricity project consists of two major components: the website and the API platform.

## Website

The [Open Electricity website](https://explorer.openelectricity.org.au) is a public website that provides a tracker for energy data from across Australia.

 * Explore energy data from across Australia
 * [Facilities](https://explore.openelectricity.org.au/facilities/nem/): Map of Australian power station facilities and their data.
 * [Compare regions](https://explore.openelectricity.org.au/compare/?range=all-12-mth-rolling&interval=1M&metric=renewablesProportion) - Compare energy data across regions.
 * [Stripes](https://explore.openelectricity.org.au/stripes/nem/) - A visualization of the energy data history.
 * [Emissions](https://explore.openelectricity.org.au/emissions/au/?interval=Year&projections=false&history=false) - Visualisation of Australia's emissions.

## API Platform

<Note>The Open Electricity Platform and client libraries are currently in beta and still under active development.</Note>

* [Open Electricity Platform](https://platform.openelectricity.org.au) - Signup for access to the API platform ([docs](/platform/introduction)).
* [Python client library](https://github.com/opennem/openelectricity-python) - Python client library for the Open Electricity API ([docs](/sdk/overview)).
* [TypeScript client library](https://github.com/opennem/openelectricity-typescript) - TypeScript client library for the Open Electricity API ([docs](/sdk/overview)).

## Supported Data Sets

Currently supported electricity networks and data sources:

* `NEM` - [Australia National Electricity Market](https://www.nemweb.com.au/) - energy network data for Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, Tasmania and the Australian Capital Territory
* `WEM` - [Australia Western Electricity Market](http://data.wa.aemo.com.au/) - energy network data for Western Australia
* `APVI` - [APVI](https://apvi.org.au) - Rooftop solar data for Australia
* `BoM` - [Bureau of Meteorology](https://www.bom.gov.au/climate/data/) - weather data for Australia

## About Open Electricity

Open Electricity is a project of [The Superpower Institute](https://https://www.superpowerinstitute.com.au/), a not-for-profit organisation
dedicated to accelerating the transition to a clean energy future. All [code](https://github.com/opennem) is open source and licensed under
the [MIT License](https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT). All data is made available under the [Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0)](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) licence — see the [full licence](https://platform.openelectricity.org.au/license) 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.

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<Card
    title="Guides"
    icon="book"
    href="/guides/networks"
  >
    Guides to the energy network and market, and how to use Open Electricity
  </Card>
  <Card
    title="Platform"
    icon="house"
    href="/platform/introduction"
  >
    Get started with the Open Electricity Platform
  </Card>
  <Card
    title="API Introduction"
    icon="pen-to-square"
    href="/api-reference/overview"
  >
    Open Electricity API Reference
  </Card>
  <Card
    title="SDKs"
    icon="image"
    href="/sdk/overview"
  >
    Client libraries for the Open Electricity API in Python and TypeScript
  </Card>
</CardGroup>