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US Power Grid API - Live Fuel Mix and Demand by ISO

Real-time US electricity grid data from CAISO (California), ERCOT (Texas), NYISO (New York) and MISO (Midwest): generation by fuel (gas, coal, nuclear, wind, solar, hydro, storage, imports), demand, renewable and carbon-free share. Latest reading or every 5-minute interval today.

$0.08 per 1,000 intervals

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What it returns

Real-time electricity data from four US grid operators: CAISO (California), ERCOT (Texas), NYISO (New York) and MISO (15 Midwest and Southern states), from their public dashboards and data feeds.

Common uses

Energy and power trading signals, carbon-aware computing and EV charging, grid dashboards, research and journalism. Pay per interval returned.

Request

POST https://api.pushbuild.com/us-power-grid/run with a JSON body. Send your key in the X-API-Key header.

FieldTypeDescription
isoslist of stringsWhich ISOs. Default: ["CAISO", "ERCOT", "NYISO", "MISO"].
modestring: latest, todayLatest interval, or every interval today (MISO: latest only). Default: "latest".
maxItemsintegerMaximum items to return (1-500). Default: 100.

Example

curl -X POST https://api.pushbuild.com/us-power-grid/run \
  -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"maxItems": 20}'

Response

{"count": 20, "truncated": false, "seconds": 1.4, "items": [ { ... } ]}

Each call returns up to 500 items. Records that fail validation or are not found are flagged in the items and not charged.

Pricing

Pay only for results returned: $0.08 per 1,000 intervals. No charge for errors or empty searches.

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