URL: /platform/introduction

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title: 'Introduction'
description: 'Introduction to the Open Electricity Platform'
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sidebarTitle: 'Introduction'
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Along with the [tracker website](https://explore.openelectricity.org.au), Open Electricity also provides a platform for programmatically accessing energy data.

The platform provides a REST API and a suite of client libraries for accessing the data, and a dashboard to monitor usage and manage API keys.

You can signup for access to the platform at [platform.openelectricity.org.au](https://platform.openelectricity.org.au).


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  <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>
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