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Overview

Hourly actual electricity demand from CAISO OASIS, reported for the CAISO system total and TAC load areas such as PG&E, SCE, and SDG&E. This settlements-grade series is published after the operating interval rather than as a live five-minute reading. It supports forecast benchmarking, historical load shape, and aligned hourly net-load analysis. The official source is CAISO OASIS.

Use with MCP

This table is available through the signed-in, read-only Ask the Grid MCP server. Connect a market below, then use search_data or describe_data to load its query contract before calling query_data.

Schema5

Column
Type
event_timeDateTime64(6, 'UTC')
tac_area_nameLowCardinality(String)
mwNullable(Float64)
labelLowCardinality(String)
ingested_atDateTime64(6, 'UTC')

Sample rows

event_timetac_area_namemwlabelingested_at
2026-08-14 09:00:00.000000WALCDSW230Total Actual Hourly Integrated Load2026-08-14 10:10:34.299859
2026-08-14 09:00:00.000000WALCAEPCO527Total Actual Hourly Integrated Load2026-08-14 10:10:34.299859
2026-08-14 09:00:00.000000WALC940Total Actual Hourly Integrated Load2026-08-14 10:10:34.299859
2026-08-14 09:00:00.000000VEA-TAC57Total Actual Hourly Integrated Load2026-08-14 10:10:34.299859
2026-08-14 09:00:00.000000TPWR357Total Actual Hourly Integrated Load2026-08-14 10:10:34.299859
2026-08-14 09:00:00.000000TIDC315Total Actual Hourly Integrated Load2026-08-14 10:10:34.299859
2026-08-14 09:00:00.000000TEPC1280Total Actual Hourly Integrated Load2026-08-14 10:10:34.299859
2026-08-14 09:00:00.000000SRP4439Total Actual Hourly Integrated Load2026-08-14 10:10:34.299859
2026-08-14 09:00:00.000000SDGE-TAC2584Total Actual Hourly Integrated Load2026-08-14 10:10:34.299859
2026-08-14 09:00:00.000000SCL801Total Actual Hourly Integrated Load2026-08-14 10:10:34.299859
2026-08-14 09:00:00.000000SCE-TAC11884Total Actual Hourly Integrated Load2026-08-14 10:10:34.299859
2026-08-14 09:00:00.000000PSEI2075Total Actual Hourly Integrated Load2026-08-14 10:10:34.299859
2026-08-14 09:00:00.000000PNM1697Total Actual Hourly Integrated Load2026-08-14 10:10:34.299859
2026-08-14 09:00:00.000000PGE-TAC11284Total Actual Hourly Integrated Load2026-08-14 10:10:34.299859
2026-08-14 09:00:00.000000PGE2378Total Actual Hourly Integrated Load2026-08-14 10:10:34.299859
2026-08-14 09:00:00.000000PACW2015Total Actual Hourly Integrated Load2026-08-14 10:10:34.299859
2026-08-14 09:00:00.000000PACE5261Total Actual Hourly Integrated Load2026-08-14 10:10:34.299859
2026-08-14 09:00:00.000000NWMT1143Total Actual Hourly Integrated Load2026-08-14 10:10:34.299859
2026-08-14 09:00:00.000000NEVP4871Total Actual Hourly Integrated Load2026-08-14 10:10:34.299859
2026-08-14 09:00:00.000000MWD-TAC178Total Actual Hourly Integrated Load2026-08-14 10:10:34.299859
2026-08-14 09:00:00.000000LADWP2457Total Actual Hourly Integrated Load2026-08-14 10:10:34.299859
2026-08-14 09:00:00.000000IPCO2391Total Actual Hourly Integrated Load2026-08-14 10:10:34.299859
2026-08-14 09:00:00.000000GWA0Total Actual Hourly Integrated Load2026-08-14 10:10:34.299859
2026-08-14 09:00:00.000000EPE1085Total Actual Hourly Integrated Load2026-08-14 10:10:34.299859
2026-08-14 09:00:00.000000CA ISO-TAC25987Total Actual Hourly Integrated Load2026-08-14 10:10:34.299859

Coverage

100.0% complete0 gap days3,148 days with data
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