GHG Allowance Price Index

Daily greenhouse-gas allowance price index used as a CAISO market-clearing input.

Prices data CAISO market

Query with the agent

Native record

event_time

daily publication cadence

Evidence

Observed market data

Published observations from the named source

Time basis

Point-in-time records

UTC · event_time

Overview

This is an input price, not a nodal LMP or the nodal GHG LMP component.

Query contract

Preserve one canonical row per (event_time) before aggregating.

Analysis rules

Group only after preserving the declared grain: event_time.

Access

Query from your own tools

Use the guarded HTTP endpoint directly, or connect an MCP client and load the dataset contract with describe_data before calling query_data.

CAISO MCP API reference

HTTP endpoint

POST /api/v1/datasets/caiso_ghg_allowance/query

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Schema3

Column

Type

event_timeDateTime64(6, 'UTC')

ghg_prc_idxNullable(Float64)

ingested_atDateTime64(6, 'UTC')

Sample data

event_time	ghg_prc_idx	ingested_at
2026-10-18 07:00:00.000000	32.34	2026-10-18 15:00:39.363246
2026-10-17 07:00:00.000000	32.34	2026-10-18 15:00:39.363246
2026-10-16 07:00:00.000000	32.32	2026-10-18 15:00:22.673127
2026-10-15 07:00:00.000000	32.5	2026-10-17 15:00:26.194163
2026-10-14 07:00:00.000000	32.56	2026-10-16 15:00:35.799879
2026-10-13 07:00:00.000000	32.42	2026-10-15 15:00:31.625069
2026-10-12 07:00:00.000000	32.58	2026-10-14 15:00:31.097377
2026-10-11 07:00:00.000000	32.58	2026-10-13 15:00:25.405754
2026-10-10 07:00:00.000000	32.58	2026-10-12 15:00:31.193790
2026-10-09 07:00:00.000000	32.81	2026-10-11 15:00:30.627281
2026-10-08 07:00:00.000000	32.84	2026-10-10 15:00:30.215605
2026-10-07 07:00:00.000000	32.63	2026-10-09 15:00:29.346397
2026-10-06 07:00:00.000000	32.44	2026-10-08 15:00:28.668280
2026-10-05 07:00:00.000000	32.3	2026-10-07 15:00:23.143097
2026-10-04 07:00:00.000000	32.3	2026-10-06 15:00:28.456246
2026-10-03 07:00:00.000000	32.3	2026-10-05 15:00:29.402498
2026-10-02 07:00:00.000000	32.16	2026-10-04 15:00:23.267638
2026-10-01 07:00:00.000000	32.26	2026-10-03 15:00:34.670343
2026-09-30 07:00:00.000000	32.04	2026-10-02 15:00:30.677977
2026-09-29 07:00:00.000000	31.74	2026-10-01 15:00:23.132542
2026-09-28 07:00:00.000000	31.78	2026-09-30 15:00:24.182052
2026-09-27 07:00:00.000000	31.78	2026-09-29 15:00:30.296683
2026-09-26 07:00:00.000000	31.78	2026-09-28 15:00:30.485817
2026-09-25 07:00:00.000000	31.53	2026-09-27 15:00:29.619086
2026-09-24 07:00:00.000000	31.45	2026-09-26 15:00:28.593806

Coverage

52.1% complete2,048 gap days2,230 days with data

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Coverage: 52.1%Days with data: 2,230Gaps: 2,048

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