Ask the Grid

Situational awareness for the power grid.

Ask the Grid is an AI platform for power and energy professionals, with live maps of 25 North American grids, an agent that explains what changed and why, and forecasts of what comes next.

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Ask a questionOpen a marketWhat grid am I on?

Used by teams at

  • Hydro-Québec
  • MISO
  • NextEra Energy
  • BP
  • Vitol
  • Morgan Stanley
  • JPMorgan Chase
  • Citadel
  • TotalEnergies
  • Hunt Energy
  • SB Energy
  • ConocoPhillips
  • Xcel Energy
  • Energy Transfer
  • Berkshire Hathaway Energy
  • Kansai Electric Power
  • EDF Trading
  • ENGIE
  • Mercuria
  • Citi
  • RWE
  • Sempra
  • Aypa Power
  • Sandia National Laboratories

25 grids across 5 interconnections, on the same clock

Live · public operator data · refreshes every minute

MarketLoadMWPrice$/MWhAs of
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CAISO logoCAISOloadingloadingconnecting
PJM logoPJMloadingloadingconnecting
NYISO logoNYISOloadingloadingconnecting
MISO logoMISOloadingloadingconnecting
ISO-NE logoISO-NEloadingloadingconnecting
SPP logoSPPloadingloadingconnecting
+ 18 more on the map
25North American grids, live100B+rows of energy and infrastructure data628datasets in the catalog15map layers

Ask a question. Put the answer to work.

Investigate a price move, check a forecast, or screen a candidate site with the agent.

  1. Explore the live map

Keep watching what matters. Open your Watchlist to save assets, follow queue changes and manage alerts and briefings.

See the full range of outcomes.

Metis 1 Preview forecasts the full distribution of what power could cost at a location, so the evening that could spike looks different from the one that won't.

See today’s ERCOT forecastAbout Metis
Spike risk
A second mode above the evening ramp shows how big a spike could be, and how likely.
Peak timing
Which interval most likely carries the day's high, on the same clock as day-ahead prices.
Spread to day-ahead
Where the outlook and the cleared day-ahead price disagree, hour by hour.

Built for the people who run the grid.

Traders, utilities, operators, asset owners and site developers.

Trading desksWhy did two nodes price apart, and what is behind it?Utilities and co-opsWhat is happening on my network, and in the market around it?ISOs and RTOsWhere is the system tight before the next interval?Asset owners and operatorsHow did my plant do against the market it sells into?Data centers and large loadsCan this site get power, how much, how soon, and at what price?

Bring the grid into your own tools

Install Ask the Grid from ChatGPT’s plugin directory, connect Claude or your own agent over MCP, or call the same catalog, forecasts and alerts over the API.

Set up MCPAPI and pricing
MCP server · every market
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "ask-the-grid": {
      "url": "https://mcp.askthegrid.com/v1/global"
    }
  }
}
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Ready for your institution.

The controls an enterprise team expects.

SAML single sign-on

Shared team workspaces with SSO and roles.

Access rules

Asset-level permissions, so each team sees what it should.

Residency and retention

Choose where your data lives and how long it is kept.

Private deployment

Deployment options, including private.

Service levels

Uptime and response commitments, set in your order form.

Data processing agreement

We sign one with Enterprise customers.

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