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Overview

Real-time locational marginal prices at the individual electrical bus, with total LMP and its marginal energy, congestion, and loss components. This is SPP's finest-grained public price view, well below the settlement-location tier, and is the table to use when a question concerns a specific bus rather than a settlement point. Real-time only: SPP publishes no day-ahead equivalent at bus granularity on this feed.

Schema8

Column
Type
event_timeDateTime64(6, 'UTC')
bus_nameLowCardinality(String)
market_runLowCardinality(String)
lmpNullable(Float64)
mlcNullable(Float64)
mccNullable(Float64)
mecNullable(Float64)
ingested_atDateTime64(6, 'UTC')

Sample rows

event_timebus_namemarket_runlmpmlcmccmecingested_at
2026-08-05 19:20:00.000000WRZOO_WRLDTX_2rt_5min33.3127-0.3089-24.585358.20692026-08-05 19:25:53.719347
2026-08-05 19:20:00.000000WRZOO_WRLDTX_1rt_5min33.3127-0.3089-24.585358.20692026-08-05 19:25:53.719347
2026-08-05 19:20:00.000000WRZOOKLD2rt_5min34.28831.5224-25.44158.20692026-08-05 19:25:53.719347
2026-08-05 19:20:00.000000WRYOSTLD4rt_5min33.9303-0.105-24.171658.20692026-08-05 19:25:53.719347
2026-08-05 19:20:00.000000WRW_PLAINGUNCOWP_GEN2rt_5min44.42940.3775-14.154958.20682026-08-05 19:25:53.719347
2026-08-05 19:20:00.000000WRW_PLAINGUNCOWP_GEN1rt_5min44.42940.3775-14.154958.20682026-08-05 19:25:53.719347
2026-08-05 19:20:00.000000WRW_PLAINGLDCOWP_LD1rt_5min44.42940.3775-14.154958.20682026-08-05 19:25:53.719347
2026-08-05 19:20:00.000000WRWSTPRTLDWSTPRT2rt_5min33.22410.3218-25.304558.20682026-08-05 19:25:53.719347
2026-08-05 19:20:00.000000WRWSTPRTLDWPRT2rt_5min33.22410.3218-25.304558.20682026-08-05 19:25:53.719347
2026-08-05 19:20:00.000000WRWR_SMKHLUNWINDFARM_SPRMrt_5min33.3815-1.2317-23.593658.20682026-08-05 19:25:53.719347
2026-08-05 19:20:00.000000WRWR_SMKHLUNWINDFARM_ENELrt_5min33.3815-1.2317-23.593658.20682026-08-05 19:25:53.719347
2026-08-05 19:20:00.000000WRWR_SMKHLUNSMOK1_ENELrt_5min33.3815-1.2317-23.593658.20682026-08-05 19:25:53.719347
2026-08-05 19:20:00.000000WRWR_SMKHLLDWINDFARM_AUXrt_5min33.3815-1.2317-23.593658.20682026-08-05 19:25:53.719347
2026-08-05 19:20:00.000000WRWR_SMKHLLDWINDFARM2_AUXrt_5min33.3815-1.2317-23.593658.20682026-08-05 19:25:53.719347
2026-08-05 19:20:00.000000WRWRENUNV266_DDR_GENrt_5min36.6617-1.8983-19.646858.20682026-08-05 19:25:53.719347
2026-08-05 19:20:00.000000WRWRENLDV266_DDR_LDrt_5min36.6617-1.8983-19.646858.20682026-08-05 19:25:53.719347
2026-08-05 19:20:00.000000WRWRENLDTX3rt_5min36.6617-1.8983-19.646858.20682026-08-05 19:25:53.719347
2026-08-05 19:20:00.000000WRWRENLD4rt_5min36.6617-1.8983-19.646858.20682026-08-05 19:25:53.719347
2026-08-05 19:20:00.000000WRWRENLD3rt_5min36.6617-1.8983-19.646858.20682026-08-05 19:25:53.719347
2026-08-05 19:20:00.000000WRWRBATESVUNINDNHYDROrt_5min45.5534-0.0761-12.577358.20682026-08-05 19:25:53.719347
2026-08-05 19:20:00.000000WRWOLFUN15rt_5min36.671-1.6617-19.874158.20682026-08-05 19:25:53.719347
2026-08-05 19:20:00.000000WRWOLFLD31rt_5min36.6492-1.6835-19.874158.20682026-08-05 19:25:53.719347
2026-08-05 19:20:00.000000WRWOLFLD18rt_5min37.1525-1.593-19.461358.20682026-08-05 19:25:53.719347
2026-08-05 19:20:00.000000WRWMCPLD19rt_5min34.4018-0.1924-23.612658.20682026-08-05 19:25:53.719347
2026-08-05 19:20:00.000000WRWMBRLD2rt_5min34.4175-2.3388-21.450558.20682026-08-05 19:25:53.719347

Coverage

99.8% complete1 gap days581 days with data
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Coverage: 99.8%Days with data: 581Gaps: 1
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