Changelog

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Major Features

• Pollution Data (NPI) - Comprehensive pollution and emissions tracking from the National Pollutant Inventory now available across the platform (#436)
  • Track greenhouse gases, air pollutants, and heavy metals from power generation facilities
  • Details in documentation at the Pollution Guide
  • Access via API endpoints for programmatic integration
  • Example implementations:
    • Python client example
    • TypeScript client example
• Battery State of Charge - Real-time battery storage level tracking showing current energy stored in battery facilities (#434)
  • Monitor state of charge (SoC) at unit, facility, region and network levels
  • View battery storage docs in the Battery Storage Guide
  • New API endpoints for battery-specific data
  • Example implementations:
    • Python client example
    • TypeScript client example
• Facility API Improvements - Enhanced facility endpoint with additional fields (#453)
  • Added NPI ID field for pollution data mapping
  • Added location data for facilities

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Improvements and Bug Fixes

• CPI Data Update - Consumer Price Index data import and tracking (#450)
• Curtailment Tracking - Renamed curtailment_solar to curtailment_solar_utility for clarity (#433)
• Battery Management - Improved battery unit handling and aggregation (#434)
• Record Tracking - Fixed duplicate records with identical rounded values (#451)
• Demand Energy - Demand energy now sourced from analytics table (#390)
• Unit Metadata - Cleaned out obsolete unit metadata for better data integrity

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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

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Major Features

• Curtailment Data - Comprehensive curtailment tracking for renewable energy generation now available across the platform (#433)
  • View curtailment data on the OpenElectricity website
  • Access via API endpoints for programmatic integration
  • Full documentation available in the Curtailment Guide
  • Example implementations:
    • Python client example
    • TypeScript client example

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Bug Fixes

• Historic Price Data - Fixed issues with historic price data retrieval and accuracy (#309)

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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

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Major Features

• Capacity History Tracking - New comprehensive capacity history output that includes rooftop solar and applies unit history tracking (#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)
• Unit Histories - Enhanced unit histories with time axes for fields (#431)

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Improvements

• Battery split static map improvements and bug fixes (#420)
• Rooftop capacity storage enhancements (#430)
• Decimal precision improvements in unit_history table (#431)
• Gap-fill improvements for rooftop capacity history (#415)

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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)
• 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)

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Documentation

• Updated migration documentation for v4.1
• Enhanced API documentation

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🎉 Platform Beta Launch

• Access at platform.openelectricity.org.au
• Sign up for early access and explore enhanced data analytics capabilities
• Advanced visualizations and custom data exports

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SDK Releases

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Python Client

• Official OpenElectricity Python client library now available
• Install via pip: pip install openelectricity
• Full documentation and examples included

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TypeScript Client

• Official OpenElectricity TypeScript/JavaScript client library released
• Install via npm: npm install @opennem/client
• Type-safe API access with comprehensive type definitions

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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

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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

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Infrastructure

• API v3 deprecation notice (#424)
• Sanity CMS syncing to database rewrite (#422)
• Enhanced facility and unit integrity monitoring (#429)

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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)
• Fixed static historic records returning strings as data (#403)