aid: chargy url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/chargy/refs/heads/main/apis.yml name: char.gy kind: company description: >- char.gy is a British public electric-vehicle charge point operator that specialises in on-street charging for the roughly forty percent of UK households with no off-street parking, and it is best known for putting the charger inside the lamp post. Founded by Richard Stobart out of the digital agency Unboxed, it installed its first public charger in Marlow, Buckinghamshire in 2018, is now led by CEO John Lewis from Floor 5, 55 King William St, London EC4R 9AD, and is backed with £100m by Zouk Capital through the UK Government-backed Charging Infrastructure Investment Fund. Its own about page claims over 5,000 charge points and 28.3 million kg of CO2 saved, and its live open data feed returned an x-total-count of 5,409 locations on 2026-07-27. In the UK energy value chain it sits at the very end of the wire: it is not a licensed supplier, not a network operator and not a metering agent, it operates charge points on street furniture owned by local authorities — Haringey, Southwark, Brent, Barnet, Harrow, Coventry, Brighton and Hove, Richmond and Wandsworth, Enfield and others — authorising drivers, metering the session and pricing it. Britain has no consumer data-portability mandate for energy equivalent to Australia's Consumer Data Right, so nothing compels char.gy to expose an individual driver's usage or billing data through an API, and it does not: there is no consumer API, no OAuth server, no OpenID Connect discovery document and no accredited-recipient scheme anywhere on the domain. What Britain DID mandate here is open infrastructure data. The Public Charge Point Regulations 2023 (SI 2023/1168), Part 4 regulation 10(5), require every charge point operator to make reference data and availability data available to the public free of charge, in a machine readable format, and — the crucial clause — "without any requirement to agree to terms and conditions regarding the use of that data". char.gy complies, and the compliance is real rather than claimed: it publishes an OCPI-shaped Locations feed and an OCPI-shaped Tariffs feed at https://char.gy/open-ocpi/locations and https://char.gy/open-ocpi/tariffs, both of which returned HTTP 200 with application/json to a completely anonymous GET on 2026-07-27, paginated with x-total-count, x-limit and RFC 5988 Link rel="next" headers, carrying real GB*CGY*E*NNNNN EVSE identifiers, IEC 62196 Type 2 connectors, per-connector tariff_ids and time-of-day restricted pence-per-kWh price components. The posture is therefore the clean split this sector keeps producing, but rotated: market and infrastructure data wide open and genuinely ungated because a regulation forbids gating it, consumer data entirely absent because no regulation asks for it, and the commercial OCPI CPO roaming interface at /ocpi/cpo/ closed behind OCPI Token authorization for partner e-mobility service providers. There is no developer portal — the entire public documentation for the open API is a single Freshdesk help-centre article. image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/chargy.png tags: - Energy - United Kingdom - EV Charging - Electricity - Utilities - OCPI - Charge Point Operator - Open Data - Roaming - Tariffs - Mobility - Electrification created: '2026-07-27' modified: '2026-07-27' specificationVersion: '0.19' apis: - aid: chargy:chargy-open-charge-point-data-api name: char.gy Open Charge Point Data API description: >- char.gy's statutory open data feed, published to satisfy Part 4 regulation 10 of the UK Public Charge Point Regulations 2023, which requires reference data and availability data to be made available to the public free of charge, in a machine readable format, and without any requirement to agree to terms and conditions. It is shaped as an Open Charge Point Interface (OCPI) surface with exactly two modules exposed, both read-only GET and both completely unauthenticated. GET /open-ocpi/locations returned HTTP 200 and application/json to an anonymous request on 2026-07-27 with the OCPI envelope {data, status_code: 1000, status_message: "Success", timestamp}, an x-total-count of 5409 locations, a default x-limit of 50, and an RFC 5988 Link header advertising rel="next" — pagination is limit/offset via query string and was confirmed working at limit=2 and across offsets 0 to 550. Each location carries country_code GB, party_id CGY, a UUID id, parking_type (ON_STREET dominates, PARKING_LOT observed), publish, name, address, city, postal_code, country GBR, coordinates, an evses array, an operator block, an owner block naming the local authority, time_zone Europe/London, opening_times and last_updated. Every EVSE carries a uid, an evse_id of the form GB*CGY*E*00022, a status, capabilities (REMOTE_START_STOP_CAPABLE, UNLOCK_CAPABLE), a physical_reference and connectors describing IEC_62196_T2 sockets at AC_1_PHASE 230V/22A with tariff_ids and a terms_and_conditions link. GET /open-ocpi/tariffs returned HTTP 200 with 3 tariff objects carrying currency, elements and price_components of type ENERGY, including a real time-of-day tariff with weekday off-peak, weekday peak and weekend restrictions. No /open-ocpi /versions endpoint is served (404), so no OCPI version is declared, and the sessions, cdrs, tokens, commands and credentials modules are all 404 under /open-ocpi — only the two modules the regulation compels are open. humanURL: https://help.char.gy/support/solutions/articles/77000576948-public-charge-point-regulations-2023 baseURL: https://char.gy/open-ocpi tags: - Open Data - EV Charging - OCPI - Locations - Tariffs - Charge Point Operator - United Kingdom properties: - type: Documentation url: https://help.char.gy/support/solutions/articles/77000576948-public-charge-point-regulations-2023 - type: OpenAPI url: openapi/chargy-open-charge-point-data-openapi.yml - type: Overlay url: overlays/chargy-open-charge-point-data-overlay.yaml - type: Examples url: examples/chargy-locations-response.json - type: Examples url: examples/chargy-tariffs-response.json - type: Conventions url: conventions/chargy-conventions.yml - type: ErrorCatalog url: errors/chargy-error-codes.yml - type: DataModel url: data-model/chargy-data-model.yml - type: MCPServer url: mcp/chargy-mcp.yml - type: ToolCrosswalk url: mcp/chargy-tool-crosswalk.yml - type: AgentSkill url: skills/_index.yml - type: Specification url: https://github.com/ocpi/ocpi - type: Legal url: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2023/1168/regulation/10/made - type: TermsOfService url: https://char.gy/us/terms-of-use - type: Support url: https://help.char.gy/ - aid: chargy:chargy-ocpi-cpo-api name: char.gy OCPI CPO Roaming API description: >- char.gy's commercial Open Charge Point Interface implementation in the Charge Point Operator role, used so that another network's drivers can authorise, charge and be settled on char.gy infrastructure. char.gy publishes no documentation for it at all — its existence was established by two independent signals. First, https://char.gy/robots.txt explicitly disallows /ocpi/, /api/, /webhooks/, /account/ and /users/. Second, anonymous probes on 2026-07-27 returned HTTP 401 with the response header `www-authenticate: Token realm="OCPI"` and the body {"error":"HTTP Token: Access denied."} on GET /ocpi/cpo/versions, /ocpi/cpo/2.1.1/locations, /ocpi/cpo/2.2.1/locations, /ocpi/cpo/2.2.1 /tariffs, /ocpi/cpo/2.2.1/sessions, /ocpi/cpo/2.2.1/cdrs and /ocpi/cpo/2.2.1/credentials, while control paths /ocpi/, /ocpi/cpo/ nonsense-xyz and /ocpi/xyz/versions returned 404 from the same host in the same sweep — so the 401s are real routes, not a blanket wall. Version support is directly observable: /ocpi/cpo/2.2/credentials returned HTTP 200 with the OCPI error envelope {"status_code":3002,"status_message": "Unsupported version"}, whereas the 2.2.1 and 2.1.1 paths returned 401, which means char.gy speaks OCPI 2.2.1 and 2.1.1 in the CPO role and explicitly rejects 2.2. No eMSP-role surface was found (/ocpi/emsp/versions → 404). Access is partner-only: an OCPI credentials handshake following a commercial roaming agreement. There is no signup, no sandbox, no published price and no developer registration — the only published contact route anywhere near the API surface is support@char.gy. humanURL: https://char.gy/us/partners baseURL: https://char.gy/ocpi/cpo tags: - EV Charging - OCPI - Roaming - Charge Point Operator - Sessions - CDRs - United Kingdom properties: - type: Authentication url: authentication/chargy-authentication.yml - type: ErrorCatalog url: errors/chargy-error-codes.yml - type: Specification url: https://github.com/ocpi/ocpi - type: Partners url: https://char.gy/us/partners - type: Support url: https://help.char.gy/ - type: TermsOfService url: https://char.gy/us/terms-of-use common: - type: AgenticAccess url: agentic-access/chargy-agentic-access.yml - type: DomainSecurity url: security/chargy-domain-security.yml - type: Authentication url: authentication/chargy-authentication.yml - type: Conventions url: conventions/chargy-conventions.yml - type: Conformance url: conformance/chargy-conformance.yml - type: Compliance url: https://help.char.gy/support/solutions/articles/77000576948-public-charge-point-regulations-2023 - type: Lifecycle url: lifecycle/chargy-lifecycle.yml - type: DataModel url: data-model/chargy-data-model.yml - type: LLMsTxt url: llms/chargy-llms.txt - type: AgentSkill url: skills/_index.yml - type: Website url: https://char.gy/ - type: Documentation url: https://help.char.gy/support/solutions/articles/77000576948-public-charge-point-regulations-2023 - type: About url: https://char.gy/us/about - type: Products url: https://char.gy/us/our-products-ev-charging - type: Partners url: https://char.gy/us/partners - type: Drivers url: https://char.gy/us/drivers - type: Pricing url: https://char.gy/us/pricing - type: Blog url: https://char.gy/us/news - type: Support url: https://help.char.gy/ - type: Contact url: https://char.gy/us/contact-us - type: PrivacyPolicy url: https://char.gy/us/privacy-notice - type: TermsOfService url: https://char.gy/us/terms-of-use - type: SignUp url: https://char.gy/users/payg_registrations/new - type: Login url: https://char.gy/users/sign_in - type: GitHubOrganization url: https://github.com/char-gy - type: LinkedIn url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/char.gy - type: Application url: https://apps.apple.com/app/1636840750 - type: Application url: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.chargy_limited.driverapp maintainers: - FN: Kin Lane email: kin@apievangelist.com