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Overview

Binding transmission constraint and contingency pairs from ERCOT's Security Constrained Economic Dispatch runs, including the named facilities, limits, flows when published, violations, and shadow prices. A row establishes that the named constraint bound in that SCED interval and its marginal system cost. It does not, by itself, identify which settlement point or hub the constraint affected, measure total substation utilization, or explain every contemporaneous LMP separation; those claims require shift-factor or direct attribution evidence. History spans 2017 to present. The official source is ERCOT report NP6-86-CD.

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Schema15

Column
Type
event_timeDateTime64(6, 'UTC')
constraint_idLowCardinality(String)
constraint_nameNullable(String)
contingency_nameLowCardinality(String)
limiting_facilityNullable(String)
constraint_limit_mwNullable(Float64)
constraint_value_mwNullable(Float64)
violation_amount_mwNullable(Float64)
shadow_priceNullable(Float64)
from_stationNullable(String)
to_stationNullable(String)
dst_flagNullable(Bool)
emil_idNullable(String)
doc_idNullable(Int64)
ingested_atDateTime64(6, 'UTC')

Sample rows

event_timeconstraint_idconstraint_namecontingency_namelimiting_facilityconstraint_limit_mwconstraint_value_mwviolation_amount_mwshadow_pricefrom_stationto_stationdst_flagemil_iddoc_idingested_at
2026-08-15 05:55:15.0000001NE_LOBBASE CASE2026-08-15 06:22:34.271322
2026-08-15 05:55:15.0000001NE_LOBBASE CASE2026-08-15 06:17:34.257617
2026-08-15 05:55:15.0000001NE_LOBBASE CASE2026-08-15 06:12:34.312123
2026-08-15 05:50:17.0000001NE_LOBBASE CASE2026-08-15 06:17:34.257617
2026-08-15 05:50:17.0000001NE_LOBBASE CASE2026-08-15 06:12:34.312123
2026-08-15 05:45:18.0000001NE_LOBBASE CASE2026-08-15 06:12:34.312123
2026-08-15 04:55:15.0000001NE_LOBBASE CASE2026-08-15 05:22:34.724209
2026-08-15 04:50:15.0000001NE_LOBBASE CASE2026-08-15 05:17:34.448759
2026-08-15 04:45:17.0000002NELRIOBASE CASE2026-08-15 05:12:34.947981
2026-08-15 04:45:17.0000001NE_LOBBASE CASE2026-08-15 05:12:34.947981
2026-08-15 03:55:18.0000004NELRIOBASE CASE25.963432026-08-15 04:22:36.008078
2026-08-15 03:55:18.0000003NE_LOBBASE CASE2026-08-15 04:22:36.008078
2026-08-15 03:55:18.0000002SOLSTICE_PST1STNFTAR8SOLSTICESOLSTICE2026-08-15 04:22:36.008078
2026-08-15 03:55:18.0000001SOLSTICE_PST1STARLEO8SOLSTICESOLSTICE2026-08-15 04:22:36.008078
2026-08-15 03:50:18.0000004NELRIOBASE CASE26.316042026-08-15 04:17:33.662887
2026-08-15 03:50:18.0000003NE_LOBBASE CASE2026-08-15 04:17:33.662887
2026-08-15 03:50:18.0000002SOLSTICE_PST1STNFTAR8SOLSTICESOLSTICE2026-08-15 04:17:33.662887
2026-08-15 03:50:18.0000001SOLSTICE_PST1STARLEO81.76389SOLSTICESOLSTICE2026-08-15 04:17:33.662887
2026-08-15 03:45:16.0000004NELRIOBASE CASE26.301612026-08-15 04:12:33.285545
2026-08-15 03:45:16.0000003NE_LOBBASE CASE2026-08-15 04:12:33.285545
2026-08-15 03:45:16.0000002SOLSTICE_PST1STNFTAR8SOLSTICESOLSTICE2026-08-15 04:12:33.285545
2026-08-15 03:45:16.0000001SOLSTICE_PST1STARLEO81.7177SOLSTICESOLSTICE2026-08-15 04:12:33.285545
2026-08-15 02:55:20.0000007NELRIOBASE CASE2026-08-15 03:22:33.466694
2026-08-15 02:55:20.0000006NE_LOBBASE CASE6.732392026-08-15 03:22:33.466694
2026-08-15 02:55:20.0000005651__BDCPSST58CMNSWCMNTP2026-08-15 03:22:33.466694

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