Reports & recurring briefings

Turn a market or asset question into a one-time report, a recurring briefing, an email edition, and a durable issue archive.

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Reports turn a question worth repeating into a publication workflow. Choose a market, report type, decision goal, assets or price points, and a one-time or recurring cadence; Ask the Grid generates an evidence-backed issue and keeps it in the Reports archive.

The issue—not the schedule—is the main object. Each completed edition can be read, shared under its visibility setting, printed, or delivered to the account email. The schedule remains available for the occasional work of editing scope, pausing delivery, or generating another issue now.

On this page · 4 sections
  1. Start from a report template
  2. Schedule and run a briefing
  3. Read an evidence-backed issue
  4. Deliver and revisit each edition

Start from a report template

Use a code-owned template for a known briefing shape or build a custom scope from the same editor.

The Reports templates tab showing source-backed briefing templates with actions to review or use each one.
Templates provide a reviewed starting structure; the copied report becomes private and editable.

Choose the decision before the data

Select the report type and describe the decision the issue should support. Then choose the market, watched assets, price points, comparison window, and delivery cadence needed for that job.

  1. 1Open Reports and choose Templates or New report.
  2. 2Select a market and report type.
  3. 3Name the decision, audience, and watched assets or locations.
  4. 4Choose a one-time run or recurring cadence.

Use a template without losing control

A template supplies a maintained question set and document structure. Your copy can narrow the scope to saved assets, change the goal, and use a private, unlisted, or public issue visibility where the source data allows it.

Schedule and run a briefing

The Reports scheduling interface with a recurring ERCOT market briefing, delivery time, visibility, and email delivery enabled.
A recurring schedule controls when a new issue is generated; the archive remains the place to read the result.

Separate the issue from its schedule

Reports lists completed issues newest first. Schedules holds the standing instructions that produce them. Editing or pausing a schedule changes future runs without rewriting an issue that already exists.

Run now, pause, or resume

Generate an issue immediately when the scheduled time is too late for the decision. Pause a recurring report without deleting its archive, then resume it when the monitoring job becomes active again.

Read an evidence-backed issue

A completed Ask the Grid report issue showing an analytical section, source-linked findings, and supporting grid visuals.
Completed issues combine selected findings, source notes, charts, maps, and the stated decision context.

Follow the analytical structure

A completed issue keeps its market, cutoff, evidence, charts, maps, assumptions, and limitations together. Read the finding beside its comparison and source note rather than treating a single headline value as the whole report.

Keep connected data private

An issue that draws on customer-connected data cannot be republished. Public and unlisted visibility remain available only when the report can preserve the source and privacy boundary of every input.

Deliver and revisit each edition

An email edition of an Ask the Grid report with the issue title, current findings, and a link back to the complete report.
Email delivers each completed edition while the durable issue remains in the report archive.

Email each issue

Enable issue email on a recurring schedule to receive new editions at the verified account address. The email is a delivery surface; the complete issue, sources, and prior editions remain in Reports.

Compare editions over time

Use the issue archive to return to the exact cutoff and evidence of an earlier run. A new issue can update the operating picture without silently revising what the prior edition knew.

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