Seven-Day Resource Adequacy Outlook

Five-minute demand, net demand, capacity, reserve requirements, forecasts and credits from CAISO's seven-day adequacy Outlook.

Generation data CAISO market

Query with the agent

Native record

CAISO system x five-minute delivery x capture

5-minute delivery; hourly collection publication cadence

Evidence

Mixed evidence

Multiple evidence types kept distinct in the contract

Time basis

Point-in-time records

UTC · event_time

Overview

Preserves all nine measures, the original source Time label and each capture.

Query contract

Preserve one canonical row per (event_time, snapshot_date, observed_at) before aggregating.

Analysis rules

Select the latest observed_at per delivery interval within the knowledge-time cutoff; never sum snapshots.
Exclude ambiguous_local_time rows when exact UTC alignment is required.

Interpretation

observed_at is capture time, not operator publication time. Historical snapshots can contain revisions and realized values; never backdate availability to snapshot_date midnight.
NULL values are unknown, not zero; MW is power, not interval energy.

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_resource_adequacy_outlook_5m/query

Schema16

Column

Type

event_timeDateTime64(6, 'UTC')

interval_endDateTime64(6, 'UTC')

snapshot_dateDate

source_time_labelString

observed_atDateTime64(6, 'UTC')

ambiguous_local_timeBool

demand_mwNullable(Float64)

net_demand_mwNullable(Float64)

day_ahead_demand_forecast_mwNullable(Float64)

day_ahead_net_demand_forecast_mwNullable(Float64)

capacity_forecast_mwNullable(Float64)

net_capacity_forecast_mwNullable(Float64)

reserve_requirement_mwNullable(Float64)

reserve_requirement_forecast_mwNullable(Float64)

credits_mwNullable(Float64)

ingested_atDateTime64(6, 'UTC')

Sample data

event_time	interval_end	snapshot_date	source_time_label	observed_at	ambiguous_local_time	demand_mw	net_demand_mw	day_ahead_demand_forecast_mw	day_ahead_net_demand_forecast_mw	capacity_forecast_mw	net_capacity_forecast_mw	reserve_requirement_mw	reserve_requirement_forecast_mw	credits_mw	ingested_at
2026-10-12 06:55:00.000000	2026-10-12 07:00:00.000000	2026-10-04	10/12/2026 00:00	2026-10-05 05:12:04.193811	false	∅	∅	23756	20074	47395	44337	∅	1782	1270	2026-10-05 05:12:04.475905
2026-10-12 06:55:00.000000	2026-10-12 07:00:00.000000	2026-10-04	10/12/2026 00:00	2026-10-05 04:12:03.813106	false	∅	∅	23756	20074	47461	44402	∅	1782	1270	2026-10-05 04:12:03.997223
2026-10-12 06:55:00.000000	2026-10-12 07:00:00.000000	2026-10-04	10/12/2026 00:00	2026-10-05 03:33:34.288298	false	∅	∅	23756	20074	47461	44402	∅	1782	1270	2026-10-05 03:33:34.510572
2026-10-12 06:50:00.000000	2026-10-12 06:55:00.000000	2026-10-04	10/11/2026 23:55	2026-10-05 05:12:04.193811	false	∅	∅	23756	20074	47395	44337	∅	1782	1270	2026-10-05 05:12:04.475905
2026-10-12 06:50:00.000000	2026-10-12 06:55:00.000000	2026-10-04	10/11/2026 23:55	2026-10-05 04:12:03.813106	false	∅	∅	23756	20074	47461	44402	∅	1782	1270	2026-10-05 04:12:03.997223
2026-10-12 06:50:00.000000	2026-10-12 06:55:00.000000	2026-10-04	10/11/2026 23:55	2026-10-05 03:33:34.288298	false	∅	∅	23756	20074	47461	44402	∅	1782	1270	2026-10-05 03:33:34.510572
2026-10-12 06:45:00.000000	2026-10-12 06:50:00.000000	2026-10-04	10/11/2026 23:50	2026-10-05 05:12:04.193811	false	∅	∅	23756	20074	47395	44337	∅	1782	1270	2026-10-05 05:12:04.475905
2026-10-12 06:45:00.000000	2026-10-12 06:50:00.000000	2026-10-04	10/11/2026 23:50	2026-10-05 04:12:03.813106	false	∅	∅	23756	20074	47461	44402	∅	1782	1270	2026-10-05 04:12:03.997223
2026-10-12 06:45:00.000000	2026-10-12 06:50:00.000000	2026-10-04	10/11/2026 23:50	2026-10-05 03:33:34.288298	false	∅	∅	23756	20074	47461	44402	∅	1782	1270	2026-10-05 03:33:34.510572
2026-10-12 06:40:00.000000	2026-10-12 06:45:00.000000	2026-10-04	10/11/2026 23:45	2026-10-05 05:12:04.193811	false	∅	∅	23756	20074	47395	44337	∅	1782	1270	2026-10-05 05:12:04.475905
2026-10-12 06:40:00.000000	2026-10-12 06:45:00.000000	2026-10-04	10/11/2026 23:45	2026-10-05 04:12:03.813106	false	∅	∅	23756	20074	47461	44402	∅	1782	1270	2026-10-05 04:12:03.997223
2026-10-12 06:40:00.000000	2026-10-12 06:45:00.000000	2026-10-04	10/11/2026 23:45	2026-10-05 03:33:34.288298	false	∅	∅	23756	20074	47461	44402	∅	1782	1270	2026-10-05 03:33:34.510572
2026-10-12 06:35:00.000000	2026-10-12 06:40:00.000000	2026-10-04	10/11/2026 23:40	2026-10-05 05:12:04.193811	false	∅	∅	23756	20074	47395	44337	∅	1782	1270	2026-10-05 05:12:04.475905
2026-10-12 06:35:00.000000	2026-10-12 06:40:00.000000	2026-10-04	10/11/2026 23:40	2026-10-05 04:12:03.813106	false	∅	∅	23756	20074	47461	44402	∅	1782	1270	2026-10-05 04:12:03.997223
2026-10-12 06:35:00.000000	2026-10-12 06:40:00.000000	2026-10-04	10/11/2026 23:40	2026-10-05 03:33:34.288298	false	∅	∅	23756	20074	47461	44402	∅	1782	1270	2026-10-05 03:33:34.510572
2026-10-12 06:30:00.000000	2026-10-12 06:35:00.000000	2026-10-04	10/11/2026 23:35	2026-10-05 05:12:04.193811	false	∅	∅	23756	20074	47395	44337	∅	1782	1270	2026-10-05 05:12:04.475905
2026-10-12 06:30:00.000000	2026-10-12 06:35:00.000000	2026-10-04	10/11/2026 23:35	2026-10-05 04:12:03.813106	false	∅	∅	23756	20074	47461	44402	∅	1782	1270	2026-10-05 04:12:03.997223
2026-10-12 06:30:00.000000	2026-10-12 06:35:00.000000	2026-10-04	10/11/2026 23:35	2026-10-05 03:33:34.288298	false	∅	∅	23756	20074	47461	44402	∅	1782	1270	2026-10-05 03:33:34.510572
2026-10-12 06:25:00.000000	2026-10-12 06:30:00.000000	2026-10-04	10/11/2026 23:30	2026-10-05 05:12:04.193811	false	∅	∅	23756	20074	47395	44337	∅	1782	1270	2026-10-05 05:12:04.475905
2026-10-12 06:25:00.000000	2026-10-12 06:30:00.000000	2026-10-04	10/11/2026 23:30	2026-10-05 04:12:03.813106	false	∅	∅	23756	20074	47461	44402	∅	1782	1270	2026-10-05 04:12:03.997223
2026-10-12 06:25:00.000000	2026-10-12 06:30:00.000000	2026-10-04	10/11/2026 23:30	2026-10-05 03:33:34.288298	false	∅	∅	23756	20074	47461	44402	∅	1782	1270	2026-10-05 03:33:34.510572
2026-10-12 06:20:00.000000	2026-10-12 06:25:00.000000	2026-10-04	10/11/2026 23:25	2026-10-05 05:12:04.193811	false	∅	∅	23756	20074	47395	44337	∅	1782	1270	2026-10-05 05:12:04.475905
2026-10-12 06:20:00.000000	2026-10-12 06:25:00.000000	2026-10-04	10/11/2026 23:25	2026-10-05 04:12:03.813106	false	∅	∅	23756	20074	47461	44402	∅	1782	1270	2026-10-05 04:12:03.997223
2026-10-12 06:20:00.000000	2026-10-12 06:25:00.000000	2026-10-04	10/11/2026 23:25	2026-10-05 03:33:34.288298	false	∅	∅	23756	20074	47461	44402	∅	1782	1270	2026-10-05 03:33:34.510572
2026-10-12 06:15:00.000000	2026-10-12 06:20:00.000000	2026-10-04	10/11/2026 23:20	2026-10-05 05:12:04.193811	false	∅	∅	23756	20074	47395	44337	∅	1782	1270	2026-10-05 05:12:04.475905

Coverage

100.0% complete0 gap days9 days with data

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