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Overview

MISO's five-minute identification of the fuel types on the dispatch margin by region, with peak/off-peak status and unit count. A marginal fuel observation identifies the price-setting technology category, not all generation running in the interval.

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.

Schema8

Column
Type
event_timeDateTime64(6, 'UTC')
regionLowCardinality(String)
fuel_typeLowCardinality(String)
peakNullable(Bool)
unit_countNullable(Int32)
datetime_localNullable(String)
market_dateNullable(Date32)
ingested_atDateTime64(6, 'UTC')

Sample rows

event_timeregionfuel_typepeakunit_countdatetime_localmarket_dateingested_at
2026-08-13 04:55:00.000000SOUTHGasfalse12026-08-12T23:55:002026-08-122026-08-13 18:27:15.809397
2026-08-13 04:55:00.000000SOUTHGasfalse12026-08-12T23:55:002026-08-122026-08-13 17:27:17.332950
2026-08-13 04:50:00.000000SOUTHCoalfalse12026-08-12T23:50:002026-08-122026-08-13 18:27:15.809397
2026-08-13 04:50:00.000000SOUTHCoalfalse12026-08-12T23:50:002026-08-122026-08-13 17:27:17.332950
2026-08-13 04:45:00.000000SOUTHGasfalse12026-08-12T23:45:002026-08-122026-08-13 18:27:15.809397
2026-08-13 04:45:00.000000SOUTHGasfalse12026-08-12T23:45:002026-08-122026-08-13 17:27:17.332950
2026-08-13 04:40:00.000000NORTHCoalfalse12026-08-12T23:40:002026-08-122026-08-13 18:27:15.809397
2026-08-13 04:40:00.000000CENTRALGasfalse12026-08-12T23:40:002026-08-122026-08-13 18:27:15.809397
2026-08-13 04:40:00.000000NORTHCoalfalse12026-08-12T23:40:002026-08-122026-08-13 17:27:17.332950
2026-08-13 04:40:00.000000CENTRALGasfalse12026-08-12T23:40:002026-08-122026-08-13 17:27:17.332950
2026-08-13 04:35:00.000000SOUTHGasfalse12026-08-12T23:35:002026-08-122026-08-13 18:27:15.809397
2026-08-13 04:35:00.000000SOUTHGasfalse12026-08-12T23:35:002026-08-122026-08-13 17:27:17.332950
2026-08-13 04:30:00.000000CENTRALGasfalse12026-08-12T23:30:002026-08-122026-08-13 18:27:15.809397
2026-08-13 04:30:00.000000CENTRALGasfalse12026-08-12T23:30:002026-08-122026-08-13 17:27:17.332950
2026-08-13 04:25:00.000000SOUTHCoalfalse12026-08-12T23:25:002026-08-122026-08-13 18:27:15.809397
2026-08-13 04:25:00.000000SOUTHCoalfalse12026-08-12T23:25:002026-08-122026-08-13 17:27:17.332950
2026-08-13 04:20:00.000000NORTHGasfalse12026-08-12T23:20:002026-08-122026-08-13 18:27:15.809397
2026-08-13 04:20:00.000000NORTHGasfalse12026-08-12T23:20:002026-08-122026-08-13 17:27:17.332950
2026-08-13 04:15:00.000000CENTRALGasfalse22026-08-12T23:15:002026-08-122026-08-13 18:27:15.809397
2026-08-13 04:15:00.000000CENTRALGasfalse22026-08-12T23:15:002026-08-122026-08-13 17:27:17.332950
2026-08-13 04:10:00.000000SOUTHGasfalse12026-08-12T23:10:002026-08-122026-08-13 18:27:15.809397
2026-08-13 04:10:00.000000SOUTHGasfalse12026-08-12T23:10:002026-08-122026-08-13 17:27:17.332950
2026-08-13 04:05:00.000000CENTRALGasfalse22026-08-12T23:05:002026-08-122026-08-13 18:27:15.809397
2026-08-13 04:05:00.000000CENTRALGasfalse22026-08-12T23:05:002026-08-122026-08-13 17:27:17.332950
2026-08-13 04:00:00.000000NORTHCoalfalse12026-08-12T23:00:002026-08-122026-08-13 18:27:15.809397

Coverage

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