Ask the Grid

Getting started

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

What it is

The Ask the Grid workspace: a live ERCOT map with plants, transmission lines, and demand zones, next to 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

Browsing the map and asking the agent are free. Signing in adds saved assets and conversation history that follow you across devices, but you can do a lot before you ever create an account.

Pick a grid

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

Live grids

ERCOT (Texas), CAISO (California), and NYISO (New York) are live today. More markets — PJM, MISO, ISO-NE, SPP — are coming next.

  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.
  3. 3Don't see your market yet? Use the vote chip on a "coming soon" grid to tell us it matters.

Your first five minutes

Look, click, ask

The fastest way to learn the grid is to click something and ask about it.

  1. 1Open a live grid, e.g. ERCOT.
  2. 2Click a plant, zone, or price node on the map to open its info card.
  3. 3Ask the agent a question like "what's driving prices right now?" — it answers and moves the map to show you.

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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