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Overview

Real-time NYISO system generation by fuel category every five minutes, including Dual Fuel, Natural Gas, Nuclear, Hydro, Wind, Other Renewables, and Other Fossil Fuels. This is the live generation-mix source for the NYISO status strip and fuel-stack questions.

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')
time_zoneNullable(String)
fuel_categoryLowCardinality(String)
gen_mwNullable(Float64)
ingested_atDateTime64(6, 'UTC')

Sample rows

event_timetime_zonefuel_categorygen_mwingested_at
2026-08-15 06:00:00.000000EDTWind992026-08-15 06:17:53.152607
2026-08-15 06:00:00.000000EDTOther Renewables2372026-08-15 06:17:53.152607
2026-08-15 06:00:00.000000EDTOther Fossil Fuels02026-08-15 06:17:53.152607
2026-08-15 06:00:00.000000EDTNuclear31672026-08-15 06:17:53.152607
2026-08-15 06:00:00.000000EDTNatural Gas41912026-08-15 06:17:53.152607
2026-08-15 06:00:00.000000EDTHydro19382026-08-15 06:17:53.152607
2026-08-15 06:00:00.000000EDTDual Fuel38342026-08-15 06:17:53.152607
2026-08-15 05:55:00.000000EDTWind922026-08-15 06:17:53.152607
2026-08-15 05:55:00.000000EDTOther Renewables2382026-08-15 06:17:53.152607
2026-08-15 05:55:00.000000EDTOther Fossil Fuels02026-08-15 06:17:53.152607
2026-08-15 05:55:00.000000EDTNuclear31672026-08-15 06:17:53.152607
2026-08-15 05:55:00.000000EDTNatural Gas43002026-08-15 06:17:53.152607
2026-08-15 05:55:00.000000EDTHydro19282026-08-15 06:17:53.152607
2026-08-15 05:55:00.000000EDTDual Fuel38932026-08-15 06:17:53.152607
2026-08-15 05:50:00.000000EDTWind922026-08-15 06:17:53.152607
2026-08-15 05:50:00.000000EDTOther Renewables2372026-08-15 06:17:53.152607
2026-08-15 05:50:00.000000EDTOther Fossil Fuels02026-08-15 06:17:53.152607
2026-08-15 05:50:00.000000EDTNuclear31662026-08-15 06:17:53.152607
2026-08-15 05:50:00.000000EDTNatural Gas43922026-08-15 06:17:53.152607
2026-08-15 05:50:00.000000EDTHydro19152026-08-15 06:17:53.152607
2026-08-15 05:50:00.000000EDTDual Fuel39302026-08-15 06:17:53.152607
2026-08-15 05:45:00.000000EDTWind902026-08-15 06:17:53.152607
2026-08-15 05:45:00.000000EDTOther Renewables2322026-08-15 06:17:53.152607
2026-08-15 05:45:00.000000EDTOther Fossil Fuels02026-08-15 06:17:53.152607
2026-08-15 05:45:00.000000EDTNuclear31652026-08-15 06:17:53.152607

Coverage

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