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Open Electricity is currently in the process of being renamed from OpenNEM. There are still some repostories and projects yet to be renamed
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. Open Electricity Tracker Screenshot The Open Electricity project consists of two major components: the website and the API platform.

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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.

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API Platform

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

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Supported Data Sets

Currently supported electricity networks and data sources:

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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.

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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.

Guides

Guides to the energy network and market, and how to use Open Electricity

Platform

Get started with the Open Electricity Platform

API Introduction

Open Electricity API Reference

SDKs

Client libraries for the Open Electricity API in Python and TypeScript