Grid Radar

Use the overview for orientation

The Overview desk selects the strongest compatible operating readings for the market: current condition, demand, headroom, generation mix, reference prices, forecast context, and other operator-specific signals. Research, reports, alerts, and Energy Wire remain on Events so the first screen stays focused on what the grid is doing now. Open a deeper desk when the decision depends on the underlying series or geography.

Move between supported desks

Tabs group widgets by operating job—for example real time, transmission, resources, renewables, weather, events, or a market-specific process. The available tabs differ because each operator publishes a different feed set and market design. Accounts that enable the experiment see modeled temperature-adjusted estimates for eligible overhead lines. The Radar summary is a screening view, not an operator facility rating or available headroom.

Choose the refresh pace

Use the header refresh control to follow the live cadence or a slower interval. The header summarizes the independent clocks, while each headline value shows its own market-local source time and marks delayed or stale publications. The refresh setting cannot make an upstream publication newer than it is.

Do not compare labels alone

A reference price, reserve measure, constraint, outage, and forecast can use different definitions across markets. Open the widget source and read the market location, interval, unit, and status before placing values side by side.

Separate system condition from local congestion

An operator-published condition leads wherever Radar mirrors one. For other markets, the banner describes the market's reference price against that ISO's own measured or provisional historical band; it is not an operator reliability declaration. A binding constraint or wide local spread stays on the congestion and insight desks and does not escalate the whole grid condition by itself.

Read constraint identity at its evidence level

Where SPP publishes a monitored facility, contingent facility, contingency name, NERC flowgate ID, and East/West marker, Radar can show that exact source context while retaining the opaque operator ID. Those labels are not a match to a map line or substation. When the public evidence does not establish a normalized identity, Radar keeps the raw ID unresolved instead of guessing from text or geography.

Read each market's own reference series

Price attention levels use the same reference series shown in the headline—such as ERCOT Hub Average, PJM-RTO, ISO-NE Internal Hub, SPP North Hub, or CAISO's three published trading hubs. A short historical mirror is identified as provisional rather than borrowing another ISO's threshold.

Treat unsupported separately from quiet

A market can omit a widget because no compatible public feed exists. A supported widget can be quiet because no event or constraint is active, stale because the source has not advanced, or unavailable because retrieval failed. Radar keeps those states separate.

Arrange and resize widgets

Turn on Edit dashboard, move supported widgets by their handles, and resize them from the available edge or corner. Select Done when the layout is useful; the arrangement returns on the next visit to that market and desk.

1. 1Open a full Radar desk and select Edit dashboard.
2. 2Move the highest-value widgets into the first screen.
3. 3Resize charts only when the added space improves the time or comparison read.
4. 4Select Done and reload once to confirm the layout persists.

Reset one desk

Use the reset control in edit mode to restore that desk's maintained default. Resetting the layout does not change the market, source data, alerts, or Saved items.

Link directly to a widget

Copy a widget link to preserve the market, desk, and focused widget in the address. The recipient can open the same operating surface without reproducing the navigation path.

Export the widget

Preview a high-resolution PNG for a briefing or operating note. The export keeps the widget title, visible series, source basis, and timestamp with the rendered evidence.

Create an alert

Use a supported widget's alert action to carry the market, metric, current value, and an initial threshold into the editor. Price starts from that ISO's elevated-price line; load and headroom presets scale from the current market reading instead of using one cross-market MW value. Review the comparison window, confirmation, recovery, and delivery cap before saving.

Ask the agent about the exact widget

Attach the widget to the agent composer, add the question, and send when ready. The attachment preserves the market, widget identity, and visible operating context; the agent still checks the underlying source for factual claims.