Ask the Grid

The live workspace for US power markets.

Ask what moved and why, then verify it on the map — across ERCOT, PJM, CAISO, and NYISO.

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Built for the desk — and for anyone who has to explain what the market just did.

The answer moves the product.

Ask what changed. The agent queries the data, cites the source, and moves the map or timeline to the evidence.

A plain-English question answered in the Ask the Grid agent, beside the live ERCOT mapThe agent's tool trace expanded, showing each query it ran against the source dataA settlement point selected on the map with its price, the operating event behind it, and the day's chartAn event reconstructed by the agent with the source records and interval it was built fromThe ERCOT map's layer panel open, showing zones, price nodes, transmission by voltage, generation by fuel type, and weather layers available to add

Not another dashboard to interpret.

It’s a map you can interrogate. Stack prices, congestion, transmission, outages, and weather over the same geography, then drag the timeline and watch every layer move together.

See the map

Markets

  • Zones
  • Price nodes

Infrastructure

  • Transmission
  • Generation
  • Substations
  • Interconnections
  • Interconnection queue

Reliability

  • Customer outages
  • Grid events

Weather

  • Wind
  • Temperature
  • Precipitation
  • Cloud cover
  • Day / night
  • Lightning

15 layers · every one on the same clock · scrub back and the whole map follows

A published Ask the Grid story — Texas's battery buildout split between incumbents and entrants, with sourced figures and an interactive fleet chart
The research desk, liveAsk the Grid

A research desk that runs on the live grid.

Every market claim is reconstructed from an identifiable public record — ISO disclosures, federal filings, the operating grid — with source, period, and method attached to the answer. Nothing modeled in silently.

01

Start with the public record

Every figure begins with an ISO publication, disclosure, or operating dataset you can open yourself.

02

Reconstruct the market

The agent aligns assets, intervals, prices, and events so a result reads as a system, not a headline.

03

Publish the boundary

Source, period, method, and limits travel with the answer. A reconstruction is never a settlement.

The desk in action is the product itself — open a market and ask.