API portal

To connect to the API Portal Part of AEMO's e-Hub used for API registration, certificates, and as a resource for downloading Open API Specifications (OAS)., participants need:

• Access to the internet. For details about MarketNet AEMO's private VPN for Registered Participants. A network of more than 300 registered participants in the National Electricity Market, including market generators, transmission network service providers, distribution network service providers, and market customers., see Guide to Information Systems. If you are an existing participant your company probably already has access to MarketNet.
• API Application Programming Interface; a set of clearly defined methods of communication between various software components. Portal registration, see Register.
• A valid SSL Secure Socket Layer, a protocol for encrypting information over the internet. certificate.

A user ID and password with access rights for the API provided by your company’s Participant Administrator (PA). For help, see Participant usernames and passwords expire every 60 days.This is the username and password that goes in the authorisation header.