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Hydro-Québec Peak Demand Events

Every winter peak event Hydro-Québec called under its demand-response offers (Flex D, Hilo, business offers): the offer, customer sector, start and end.

Outages & Grid Events dataHydro-Québec market
Query with the agent
Native record
event x offer x sector
as events are called publication cadence
Evidence
Observed market data
Published observations from the named source
Time basis
Interval-start records
UTC · event_time

Overview

Every winter peak event Hydro-Québec called under its demand-response offers (Flex D, Hilo, business offers): the offer, customer sector, start and end.

Query contract

Preserve one canonical row per (recordid) before aggregating.

Analysis rules

  • datedebut and datefin are the event window in UTC text; duree is an ISO 8601 duration.

Interpretation

  • A called event is a utility's demand-response call on its own customers, not a reliability emergency declared by an operator.
  • Hydro-Québec licenses this data CC BY-NC 4.0: attribute Hydro-Québec when quoting it.

Access

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Schema13

Column
Type
datasetidString
recordidString
record_timestampNullable(String)
snapshot_atDateTime64(6, 'UTC')
event_timeNullable(DateTime64(6, 'UTC'))
source_record_jsonString
offreNullable(String)
datedebutNullable(String)
datefinNullable(String)
plagehoraireNullable(String)
dureeNullable(String)
secteurclientNullable(String)
ingested_atDateTime64(6, 'UTC')

Sample data

datasetidrecordidrecord_timestampsnapshot_atevent_timesource_record_jsonoffredatedebutdatefinplagehorairedureesecteurclientingested_at
evenements-pointe48e529cfb0d9e6c2cfb76765d520f1fe036b37ec2026-10-10T16:02:00.401Z2026-10-10 16:07:27.8284482026-08-06 17:00:00.000000{"datasetid":"evenements-pointe","recordid":"48e529cfb0d9e6c2cfb76765d520f1fe036b37ec","fields":{"plagehoraire":"PM","datedebut":"2026-08-06T17:00:00Z","datefin":"2026-08-06T23:00:00Z","offre":"Chaine de bloc","duree":"PT06H00MS","secteurclient":"Affaires"},"record_timestamp":"2026-10-10T16:02:00.401Z"}Chaine de bloc2026-08-06T17:00:00Z2026-08-06T23:00:00ZPMPT06H00MSAffaires2026-10-10 16:07:28.213702
evenements-pointe48e529cfb0d9e6c2cfb76765d520f1fe036b37ec2026-10-10T16:32:00.361Z2026-10-10 16:37:07.4585682026-08-06 17:00:00.000000{"datasetid":"evenements-pointe","recordid":"48e529cfb0d9e6c2cfb76765d520f1fe036b37ec","fields":{"plagehoraire":"PM","datedebut":"2026-08-06T17:00:00Z","datefin":"2026-08-06T23:00:00Z","offre":"Chaine de bloc","duree":"PT06H00MS","secteurclient":"Affaires"},"record_timestamp":"2026-10-10T16:32:00.361Z"}Chaine de bloc2026-08-06T17:00:00Z2026-08-06T23:00:00ZPMPT06H00MSAffaires2026-10-10 16:37:07.900526
evenements-pointe48e529cfb0d9e6c2cfb76765d520f1fe036b37ec2026-10-10T17:02:00.437Z2026-10-10 17:07:19.8193872026-08-06 17:00:00.000000{"datasetid":"evenements-pointe","recordid":"48e529cfb0d9e6c2cfb76765d520f1fe036b37ec","fields":{"plagehoraire":"PM","datedebut":"2026-08-06T17:00:00Z","datefin":"2026-08-06T23:00:00Z","offre":"Chaine de bloc","duree":"PT06H00MS","secteurclient":"Affaires"},"record_timestamp":"2026-10-10T17:02:00.437Z"}Chaine de bloc2026-08-06T17:00:00Z2026-08-06T23:00:00ZPMPT06H00MSAffaires2026-10-10 17:07:20.214705
evenements-pointe48e529cfb0d9e6c2cfb76765d520f1fe036b37ec2026-10-10T17:32:00.325Z2026-10-10 17:37:08.3841362026-08-06 17:00:00.000000{"datasetid":"evenements-pointe","recordid":"48e529cfb0d9e6c2cfb76765d520f1fe036b37ec","fields":{"plagehoraire":"PM","datedebut":"2026-08-06T17:00:00Z","datefin":"2026-08-06T23:00:00Z","offre":"Chaine de bloc","duree":"PT06H00MS","secteurclient":"Affaires"},"record_timestamp":"2026-10-10T17:32:00.325Z"}Chaine de bloc2026-08-06T17:00:00Z2026-08-06T23:00:00ZPMPT06H00MSAffaires2026-10-10 17:37:08.767328

Coverage

No time-indexed data — coverage isn’t applicable to this dataset.