Ask the Grid

The map

Layers, weather, the time scrubber, selecting assets, dropping a pin, and search.

Data layers

Toggle what the map draws from the layer panel. Search the panel to find a layer fast.

The Map content panel with layers grouped into Markets, Infrastructure, Generation by fuel, Reliability, and Weather.
The layer panel — markets, infrastructure, generation by fuel, and weather.

Markets & infrastructure

Turn on demand zones, price nodes (settlement points), transmission lines, generating plants, and substations. Plants are color-coded by fuel; lines by voltage.

Filter a layer

Narrow plants to a single fuel (gas, wind, solar, nuclear, coal…) or transmission to a voltage class, so the map shows only what you care about.

  1. 1Open the layer panel.
  2. 2Toggle a layer on, then use its fuel or voltage filter.

Weather & reliability

Overlay wind, temperature, precipitation, and cloud cover as rasters, plus a day/night boundary, live lightning strikes, and customer outages.

Move through time

The time scrubber

Every layer is time-aware. Scrub back through the day, jump to a specific date, or return to live. The map and any open charts follow the scrubber together.

  1. 1Drag the scrubber, or use ← and → to step one hour.
  2. 2Use the calendar to jump to a specific date.
  3. 3Press "Go live" to snap back to now.

Shaded segments on the track show where historical data exists for the current view.

Select & focus

Click to select, box to multi-select

Click any asset to open its info card. Shift+drag draws a box to select many plants at once; Shift+click adds or removes one from the selection.

Drop a pin

Switch on pin mode and click anywhere to drop a location pin. The agent uses it as a focus point — handy for "what's near here?" questions.

Basemap & camera

Switch between a flat basemap and satellite imagery, and zoom or pan freely. From an info card you can zoom straight to that asset.

Search the grid

The grid search dropdown showing results grouped by kind — a generation plant and transmission lines — with a Tab-to-agent option.
Search results grouped by kind, with Tab to hand the query to the agent.

Find anything by name

Search across plants, zones, price nodes, substations, transmission lines, and map overlays. Results are grouped by kind.

  1. 1Press ⌘K (or /) to focus search.
  2. 2Type a name and pick a result to fly to it on the map.
  3. 3Or press Tab to send your query to the agent instead.
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