Ask the Grid MCP Server
Connect AI agents to live and historical power-market data from ERCOT, CAISO, NYISO, and PJM—without building a custom data integration.
Ask the Grid provides remote MCP servers that let ChatGPT, Claude, Cursor, Codex, and other compatible clients discover energy datasets, query registered schemas, read current grid conditions, and resolve power-system assets.
- Power markets
- 4
- Query-ready datasets
- 60
- Typed MCP tools
- 9
- Authorization
- OAuth 2.1
Energy and power MCP servers
Choose the power market your agent should access. Every MCP server has its own authenticated endpoint, catalog, schemas, and market boundary.
What an AI agent can do
Nine typed tools cover data discovery, analysis, live grid context, and published asset intelligence.
See every MCP toolFind the right energy data
Search the connected ISO catalog, inspect schemas, and understand grain, coverage, freshness, and query cautions before analysis begins.
Query power markets
Run bounded read-only analysis across prices, load, generation, forecasts, outages, constraints, reserves, congestion, and other registered datasets.
Read live grid conditions
Retrieve current market headline values with freshness metadata so an agent can distinguish live conditions from historical context.
Resolve grid assets
Search typed power plants, pricing nodes, zones, substations, and transmission lines instead of relying on ambiguous text matches.
Use published asset intelligence
Read exact asset profiles and source-backed intelligence already published in the Ask the Grid asset catalog.
Request deeper coverage
Enterprise users can request reviewed hydration for an existing asset and track the request from the same MCP connection.
How the Ask the Grid MCP server works
Connect once from a compatible client. Ask the Grid handles authentication, catalog context, market boundaries, and query safety.
- 01
Choose a power market
Connect the ERCOT, CAISO, NYISO, or PJM MCP server. The resource URL fixes the market before an agent can call a tool.
- 02
Sign in and authorize
Your client opens Ask the Grid, where you sign in and approve the exact read scopes it needs through OAuth 2.1.
- 03
Ask grounded questions
The agent discovers registered data, reads its schema, and uses typed, bounded tools to answer with market and asset context.
MCP server questions
About access, clients, power markets, and authorization.
- What is an energy MCP server?
- An energy MCP server gives compatible AI clients a standard, structured way to discover and use energy data and tools. Ask the Grid provides market-scoped MCP servers for power prices, load, generation, forecasts, outages, grid assets, and related market data.
- Which power markets does the Ask the Grid MCP server support?
- Ask the Grid currently provides dedicated MCP servers for ERCOT, CAISO, NYISO, and PJM. Each server stays inside its selected power market.
- Which AI clients can connect?
- ChatGPT, Claude, Cursor, Codex, and other clients that support remote Streamable HTTP MCP servers can connect to Ask the Grid.
- Do I need an Ask the Grid account?
- Yes. Your MCP client opens the standard Ask the Grid sign-in and authorization screens. You approve the requested access through OAuth 2.1 with PKCE; no API key copying is required.
- Can an MCP client change power-market data?
- No. Catalog, market, grid, and asset-reading tools are read-only and bounded. Enterprise customers can separately authorize a reviewed tool that requests hydration of an existing grid asset.
Connect an AI client to power-market data
Start with a market-specific MCP server, or read the complete connection guide for Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Codex, and other compatible clients.