aid: essential-energy url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/essential-energy/refs/heads/main/apis.yml name: Essential Energy kind: company description: >- Essential Energy is a New South Wales Government-owned statutory corporation and the distribution network service provider (DNSP) for 95 per cent of the geographic area of NSW plus parts of southern Queensland — the poles, wires, substations and streetlights, not the retail energy contract. Headquartered in Port Macquarie and formed in 2011 out of the restructure of Country Energy, it sits in the regulated network layer of the Australian electricity value chain alongside Ausgrid and Endeavour Energy, under Australian Energy Regulator economic regulation. Its API posture splits cleanly and the split is the finding: Essential Energy publishes NO consumer data API and NO developer portal, and it is NOT a designated data holder under the Consumer Data Right energy regime — the CDR energy obligation lands on electricity retailers and AEMO, not on distributors, and Essential Energy does not appear anywhere in the public CDR energy data-holder brand register. What it does publish, anonymously and without a key, is a genuinely open grid-data surface: an ArcGIS Online organisation exposing 100 public ArcGIS REST FeatureServers covering network assets (poles, spans, cables, transformers, substations, streetlights, service points), DER hosting capacity for generation and load, zone substation and distribution feeder forecasts from the Distribution Annual Planning Report, and EV charging suitability analysis. Open market and network data, closed consumer data. image: https://www.essentialenergy.com.au/favicon.ico tags: - Energy - Australia - Utilities - Electricity - Grid - Network Distributor - Open Data - GIS - DER - Hosting Capacity - EV Charging - Renewables - New South Wales created: '2026-07-27' modified: '2026-07-27' specificationVersion: '0.19' apis: - aid: essential-energy:essential-energy-network-asset-feature-services name: Essential Energy Network Asset Feature Services description: >- Anonymous, key-free ArcGIS REST FeatureServer endpoints publishing Essential Energy's physical distribution network as queryable geospatial features — poles (timber, concrete, metal, composite), spans, cables, transformers, substations, zone substation sites, streetlights and controllers, service points, switchgear, fuses, reclosers, pillars, pits, towers, cross-arms, third-party attachments and the network service-area boundaries. Every service supports the standard ArcGIS REST /query operation over HTTPS GET with no authentication. These are the services backing Essential Energy's public Network Information Portal map viewer. humanURL: https://essentialenergy.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=947af3fb3749427e97a4824dcbd49980 baseURL: https://services-ap1.arcgis.com/3o0vFs4fJRsuYuBO/arcgis/rest/services tags: - Grid - GIS - Network Assets - Open Data - Geospatial properties: - type: Reference url: arcgis/essential-energy-arcgis-services-catalog.json - type: Reference url: arcgis/essential-energy-ee-service-areas-featureserver.json - type: Reference url: arcgis/essential-energy-substation-featureserver.json - type: Reference url: arcgis/essential-energy-arcgis-public-items.json - type: Reference url: arcgis/essential-energy-arcgis-portal-self.json - type: APIReference url: https://developers.arcgis.com/rest/services-reference/enterprise/feature-service/ - type: Documentation url: https://engage.essentialenergy.com.au/access-to-network-data - type: Portal url: https://essentialenergy.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=947af3fb3749427e97a4824dcbd49980 - aid: essential-energy:essential-energy-hosting-capacity-feature-services name: Essential Energy Hosting Capacity Feature Services description: >- Anonymous ArcGIS REST FeatureServer endpoints publishing Essential Energy's distributed energy resource hosting capacity — how much generation (GEN) and load (LOAD) the network can absorb — at substation level and as 1km, 5km and 15km hexbin aggregations, together with spare-capacity service areas and substation capacity layers. The service descriptions self-identify as "Hosting Capacity MVP – GEN dataset for Experience Builder" and "Hosting Capacity MVP – LOAD dataset for Experience Builder", and back the public network capacity map experience. humanURL: https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/9e19707948544a3285a3631d0ed576f8 baseURL: https://services-ap1.arcgis.com/3o0vFs4fJRsuYuBO/arcgis/rest/services tags: - DER - Hosting Capacity - Solar - Grid - Open Data properties: - type: Reference url: arcgis/essential-energy-hostingcapacity-substation-gen-featureserver.json - type: Reference url: arcgis/essential-energy-hostingcapacity-substation-load-featureserver.json - type: Reference url: arcgis/essential-energy-hostingcapacity-service-areas-featureserver.json - type: Reference url: arcgis/essential-energy-arcgis-services-catalog.json - type: APIReference url: https://developers.arcgis.com/rest/services-reference/enterprise/query-feature-service-layer/ - type: Portal url: https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/9e19707948544a3285a3631d0ed576f8 - aid: essential-energy:essential-energy-network-planning-feature-services name: Essential Energy Network Planning and DAPR Feature Services description: >- Anonymous ArcGIS REST FeatureServer tables and layers publishing Essential Energy's regulated network planning data — zone substation summer and winter ratings and forecasts (DAPR_ZS_Summer_v2, DAPR_ZS_Winter_v2, NIP_ZS_Forecast), transmission line data (DAPR_TX_Lines) and distribution feeder forecasts (Distrib_Feeder_Fcasts) derived from the Distribution Annual Planning Report that the Australian Energy Regulator requires every distributor to publish, plus EV charging point-of-interest and pole-suitability analysis layers. The human-readable DAPR is separately published through a Rosetta Data Portal web application, which exposes no API of its own. humanURL: https://dapr.essentialenergy.com.au/ baseURL: https://services-ap1.arcgis.com/3o0vFs4fJRsuYuBO/arcgis/rest/services tags: - Energy Markets - Network Planning - Forecasting - EV Charging - Open Data properties: - type: Reference url: arcgis/essential-energy-dapr-zs-summer-v2-featureserver.json - type: Reference url: arcgis/essential-energy-dapr-tx-lines-featureserver.json - type: Reference url: arcgis/essential-energy-distrib-feeder-fcasts-featureserver.json - type: Reference url: arcgis/essential-energy-nip-zs-forecast-featureserver.json - type: Reference url: arcgis/essential-energy-ev-pois-featureserver.json - type: Documentation url: https://dapr.essentialenergy.com.au/ - type: APIReference url: https://developers.arcgis.com/rest/services-reference/enterprise/feature-service/ common: - type: DomainSecurity url: security/essential-energy-domain-security.yml - type: Website url: https://www.essentialenergy.com.au/ - type: LinkedIn url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/essential-energy - type: Portal url: https://essentialenergy.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=947af3fb3749427e97a4824dcbd49980 - type: Documentation url: https://engage.essentialenergy.com.au/access-to-network-data - type: Documentation url: https://dapr.essentialenergy.com.au/ - type: Reference url: arcgis/essential-energy-arcgis-services-catalog.json - type: Reference url: arcgis/essential-energy-arcgis-public-items.json - type: Reference url: arcgis/essential-energy-arcgis-portal-self.json - type: Reference url: arcgis/essential-energy-arcgis-rest-info.json - type: Reference url: arcgis/essential-energy-service-capabilities.json - type: Reference url: arcgis/essential-energy-layer-field-schemas.json - type: Reference url: well-known/essential-energy-well-known.yml - type: Authentication url: authentication/essential-energy-authentication.yml - type: Conventions url: conventions/essential-energy-conventions.yml - type: ErrorCatalog url: errors/essential-energy-problem-types.yml - type: Lifecycle url: lifecycle/essential-energy-lifecycle.yml - type: Conformance url: conformance/essential-energy-conformance.yml - type: Vocabulary url: vocabulary/essential-energy-vocabulary.yml - type: DataModel url: data-model/essential-energy-data-model.yml - type: Examples url: examples/essential-energy-examples.yml - type: AgenticAccess url: agentic-access/essential-energy-agentic-access.yml - type: AgentSkill url: skills/_index.yml - type: LLMsTxt url: llms/essential-energy-llms.txt - type: VulnerabilityDisclosure url: security/essential-energy-vulnerability-disclosure.yml - type: Security url: https://www.essentialenergy.com.au/about-us/corporate-governance/vulnerability-disclosure-policy - type: Support url: https://www.essentialenergy.com.au/contact-us - type: Blog url: https://www.essentialenergy.com.au/media-centre/media-release - type: PrivacyPolicy url: https://www.essentialenergy.com.au/privacy - type: TermsOfService url: https://www.essentialenergy.com.au/termsofuse maintainers: - FN: Kin Lane email: kin@apievangelist.com