Ask the Grid
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What Ask the Grid is, how to explore your first grid, and what you get for free.

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Aug 13, 2026
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On this page · 3 sections
  1. What it is
  2. Pick a grid
  3. Your first five minutes

What it is

The Ask the Grid workspace: a live ISO power-grid map with plants, transmission lines, demand zones, and the grid agent panel.
The workspace — a live grid map beside the agent.

A map-first view of the US power grid

Open a grid and you see it as it is right now: how much power each region is using, what is generating it, where prices are high, and how it is all wired together. An AI agent reads it with you.

Free to explore, no account needed

The public map, layers, search, live asset values, the data catalog, and 2 agent questions work without an account. A free account adds full asset detail, Saved, History, alerts, exports, and up to 40 agent questions per hour.

Pick a grid

Ask the Grid is organized by wholesale market (ISO/RTO).

The Ask the Grid map zoomed out across the United States, with ERCOT active and clickable CAISO, PJM, and NYISO grid markers visible.
Live grids remain visible as clickable regions when you zoom out.

Live grids

ERCOT, CAISO, NYISO, PJM, SPP, MISO, and ISO-NE are live today — all seven organized US power markets.

  1. 1From the home page or the left navigation, choose a grid.
  2. 2The map opens on that grid with its live data streaming in.

Switch grids on the map

Zoom out and the other live markets appear as faint labeled regions. Select one to move straight into that grid without returning to the home page or opening the navigation.

  1. 1Zoom out until the neighboring grid markers appear.
  2. 2Select a live grid marker to open that market.
  3. 3Use the ISO switcher in the header or the left navigation when you already know where you want to go.

Your first five minutes

Explore one live grid

The fastest way to understand Ask the Grid is to follow one question from the map to its evidence.

  1. 1Open ERCOT, CAISO, NYISO, PJM, SPP, MISO, or ISO-NE.
  2. 2Choose a market, infrastructure, generation, reliability, or weather layer.
  3. 3Select a plant, zone, or price node to read its live info card.
  4. 4Open the timeline and step back one interval to compare with the present.
  5. 5Ask the agent a question such as "what is driving prices right now?"
  6. 6Open the cited sources before using the answer in a decision.

Every answer is grounded in live public data, but the agent can still be wrong. Verify anything important against the ISO.

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