A live map of the US power grid.

Power prices, plants, substations, transmission lines, pipelines, weather, and outages on one map. When the price splits between two places, the congested line or the outage behind it is on the same screen.

Stack fifteen layers

Prices, transmission, generation, outages, and weather over one geography.

Move through time

Live, one historical day, or a 7- and 30-day window — back to 2017.

Select, then ask

A plant, line, node, or region becomes context the agent answers against.

Not a mockup. This is the map.

Two captures from the live ERCOT surface — a selection with its readout, and the live summary for the current view.

ERCOT map with the Big Hill to Twin Buttes transmission line selected, showing its operator, voltage, modeled temperature-adjusted rating, weather inputs, and source chain — Map · a transmission line selectedAsk the Grid

ERCOT map live-data summary showing load, net load, price, and marginal fuel source — Map · live summaryAsk the Grid

One map

Market, network, asset, weather, and event context stay aligned through time.

Fifteen base layers. Four categories. One clock.

Nodal prices, transmission, generation, outages, and weather share a single geography — so the physical cause of a market move is somewhere you can point to.

Every layer below is a real layer in the product, listed with the source it is drawn from, the geometry it renders as, how often it changes, and where it stops being reliable.

Point — a marker at a place

Line — a connected network

Polygon — a filled boundary

Raster — a continuous field

Mixed — markers and shapes together

Prices · boundaries · settlement

Markets

Geographic and economic structures used to read pricing, congestion, dispatch, and settlement behavior.

02 layers

Zones
Price nodes

Markets — source, cadence, and limits for each layer2

Zones

Grid operator · polygon

Demand areas and market boundaries colored by how close each is to its own daily peak. Named load zones in NYISO, PJM, and ISO-NE; local resource zones in MISO; approximate TAC demand territories in CAISO; ancillary reserve zones in SPP.

Hourly actual and forecast frames

LimitIn CAISO the territories are approximate California Energy Commission reference geometry, not authoritative CAISO settlement boundaries. SPP publishes no load by reserve zone, so those zones carry no demand series.

Price nodes

Grid operator · point

Locational prices and market-relative price deviation. ERCOT also supports day-ahead versus real-time basis where the required feeds are available.

5–60 minutes by market; day-ahead hourly

LimitCoverage varies by market. ISO-NE carries the complete active PNode table; CAISO, NYISO, PJM, MISO, and SPP carry a selected pricing-node subset rather than every published node.

Generation · network · interties

Infrastructure

Physical assets that produce, move, transform, and interconnect power across the selected grid.

05 layers

Transmission
Generation
Substations
Market interfaces
Interconnection queue

Infrastructure — source, cadence, and limits for each layer5

Transmission

HIFLD · line

High-voltage network lines, classified by voltage. Voltage filters are preserved when the parent layer is hidden and restored when it is shown again.

Source snapshot; map materialized weekly

LimitLower-voltage geometry appears only at closer zoom levels.

Generation

EIA · point

Power plants colored by primary fuel and sized by capacity. Fuel selections behave as sublayers, so hiding the parent layer preserves the chosen mix.

Map materialized weekly from the published inventory

LimitPlant inventory is sourced from EIA across all seven live markets, with HIFLD-derived context where available.

Substations

HIFLD · point

Known electric substations across the selected geography — useful for geographic context, not an operational connectivity model.

Source snapshot; map materialized weekly

LimitPublic location coverage may be incomplete or generalized.

Market interfaces

MISO, PJM, SPP, and ERCOT · point

A national seam layer of price-bearing interfaces published by MISO, PJM, SPP, and ERCOT. It remains available from every market route and keeps each selected point attached to its native price series.

Reference geometry; live flow polled where published

LimitDirectional market perspectives remain separate. PJM and ERCOT positions are representative map locations rather than surveyed physical infrastructure; SPP live flow is shown where its published point joins unambiguously.

Interconnection queue

Grid operator · polygon

Proposed generation and storage projects from every live market's official queue publication, shaded by requested capacity, with technology and feed-status filters preserved across whichever of the current, historical, and expected-online-by views that market's feed supports.

Daily to monthly, on each operator's own publication schedule

LimitCounty centroids are used because these feeds do not publish exact project geometry, and proposed completion dates are schedules, not delivery guarantees. Scrubbing back through past publications is ERCOT-only — its MIS exposes a multi-year document archive, while every other market's history accrues forward from its 2026 launch. The expected-online-by view needs a published on-line date, which ERCOT, MISO, and SPP carry today.

Outages · notices · operations

Reliability

Operational disruptions and customer impacts affecting service and assets.

02 layers

Customer outages
Grid events

Reliability — source, cadence, and limits for each layer2

Customer outages

ODIN · polygon

County-level outage impact reported by electric utilities. Color intensity follows meters out at the selected timestamp, with labels showing the reported count.

10-minute snapshots

LimitCoverage and reporting cadence vary by utility.

Grid events

Grid operator · mixed

Operator notices normalized into map-visible shapes and asset-attached markers. Open one for timing, source language, affected equipment, and operational detail.

Mixed notices, schedules, and outage snapshots

Atmosphere · hazards · daylight

Weather

Atmospheric conditions that shape demand, renewable output, field work, and operating risk.

06 layers

Wind
Temperature
Precipitation
Cloud cover
Day / night
Lightning

Weather — source, cadence, and limits for each layer6

Wind

Open-Meteo / ERA5 · raster

An animated flow field over the active map and timestamp, so direction and relative speed stay legible without covering the grid beneath them.

Hourly reanalysis; approximately 4–5 days delayed

Temperature

Open-Meteo / ERA5 · raster

A continuous temperature field for the selected hour, with sparse value labels that give exact readings without turning the map into a wall of numbers.

Hourly reanalysis; approximately 4–5 days delayed

Precipitation

Open-Meteo / ERA5 · raster

Active rainfall and snow-equivalent cells only — dry areas stay transparent so infrastructure and market layers remain readable.

Hourly reanalysis; approximately 4–5 days delayed

Cloud cover

Open-Meteo / ERA5 · raster

Estimated cloud fraction across the selected grid — a soft atmospheric field for solar context and fast visual orientation.

Hourly reanalysis; approximately 4–5 days delayed

Day / night

Astronomical calculation · polygon

The solar terminator for the selected map timestamp, making sunrise, sunset, and the nighttime footprint visible alongside demand and renewable conditions.

Calculated for every timestamp

Lightning

GOES GLM · point

Recent satellite-detected flash locations near the selected timestamp, for rapid awareness of active convective weather and field risk.

Near real time

Every layer moves on one clock.

The timeline is not an overlay on the map. It sits below the map and pushes it up, because time is a first-class control here, not a filter. Prices, weather, outages, and events all redraw at the timestamp you choose.

Live

The playhead is pinned to now, with a fixed live line on the track. Scrub back into the day and press play to replay it up to the live edge.

Historical day

A single day, with previous and next day navigation and a date picker. History runs back to 1 January 2017.

Range

A multi-day window for backtesting — 7-day and 30-day presets, or a custom span.

Forecast side, layer tracks, daylight, and scrubbing4

Forecast side

Everything right of now is hatched and labelled Forecast, so the dataless side of the clock is never mistaken for realized data. The window runs 14 days ahead by default, and further when a layer needs it — the interconnection queue travels to proposed completion dates years out.

Layer tracks

Turn on series and each active map layer gets its own sparkline row with the value at the cursor. Temperature and wind rows are sampled over the current viewport, so they follow where you are looking.

Daylight

Sunrise and sunset markers are drawn on the track for the relevant location — the map selection when there is one, otherwise the viewport.

Scrub and step

The whole canvas is the control: drag anywhere to seek, or focus it and step interval by interval with the arrow keys.

Drag the scrubber. Watch the grid change.

Five real captures of the live ERCOT map, one day, generation coloring on — not a screen recording.

Live ERCOT map at 6 AM CDT, generation layer on — real capture, not a render

Live ERCOT map at 10 AM CDT, generation layer on — real capture, not a render

Live ERCOT map at 2 PM CDT, generation layer on — real capture, not a render

Live ERCOT map at 6 PM CDT, generation layer on — real capture, not a render

Live ERCOT map at 10 PM CDT, generation layer on — real capture, not a render

2 PM CDT · Sat, Jul 25 · real capture, not a render

Three ways to color the market.

Congestion is a comparison, not a number you can read off one map. The price-node layer can be colored three ways, and the legend always names what the two ends of the scale mean.

price

Absolute price

The published locational price at each node, on one scale across the whole market.

Negative → Scarcity

congestion

Deviation from the reference

Each node against the current market reference — in ERCOT, congestion relative to system lambda. Elsewhere it is deviation from the frame median: a visual comparison, not the operator's published congestion component.

Below reference → Above reference

basis

Day-ahead basis

Real-time against day-ahead at the same point, where both feeds are available. ERCOT today.

RT below DA → RT above DA

Layers have sublayers.

A layer is rarely all-or-nothing. Each filter below is a fixed vocabulary in the product, and the layer panel searches layers, sources, and fuels by name or alias.

Fuel, voltage class, queue technology, and labels4

Fuel

Generation

Gas
Coal
Nuclear
Wind
Solar
Battery
Hydro
Petroleum
Biomass
Other

Fuel selections behave as sublayers and survive hiding the parent layer.

Voltage class

Transmission

345 kV+
230 kV
138 kV
69 kV

345 kV and 230 kV load on first paint; the lower classes fetch their geometry on toggle.

Queue technology

Interconnection queue

Battery
Solar
Wind
Gas
Nuclear
Hydro
Other

Filtered alongside queue feed status — active, completed, or withdrawn.

Labels

Zones · Transmission · Interconnections · Queue · Temperature · Outages

Label visibility is configurable independently of the layer it belongs to.

Sources, coverage, and limits.

Beyond the base layers, a set of public geographic overlays can be switched on when a question needs them. They are fetched from the publishing authority and clipped to the active grid footprint where that makes sense. The basemap itself switches between the flat cartographic style and satellite imagery.

Layer availability is not uniform across markets, and some feeds are models or snapshots rather than live measurement. Both are stated on the layer inside the product, and both are stated here.

Public overlays, loaded on demand.

Grid footprint

The service boundary for the active ERCOT, CAISO, NYISO, PJM, SPP, MISO, or ISO-NE market.

ERCOT / HARC · California Energy Commission · U.S. Census Bureau · HIFLD / ORNL

Counties and states

County geometry for Texas, California, and New York; state boundaries across the PJM, MISO, and ISO-NE footprints.

TxDOT / Texas GLO · U.S. Census Bureau

Utility territories

Electric utility service territories in each live market.

HIFLD / ORNL

Natural gas pipelines

Interstate and intrastate gas pipelines across Texas, plus Railroad Commission permitted major trunks.

EIA · Texas RRC

Availability by market7

ERCOTAll fifteen base layers.
CAISONo interconnections or grid events.
PJMNo interconnections, grid events, or lightning.
NYISONo interconnections.
MISONo interconnections, grid events, or lightning.
ISO-NENo interconnections, grid events, or lightning.
SPPNo grid events or lightning.

What the map does not claim.

Weather is a model

Wind, temperature, precipitation, and cloud cover come from an hourly reanalysis on a 0.25-degree grid over each market’s bounding box, roughly four to five days behind. Lightning is the only near-real-time observational feed. Day and night is an astronomical calculation, not a measurement.

Infrastructure is a snapshot

Transmission, generation, and substation geometry come from public inventories, materialized weekly. They are geographic context — not an operational connectivity or topology model.

Ask the grid

The agent rides on the map, too. Ask it about anything on the screen — it reads the same live data and answers with the source attached.

Ask on the live grid

How it connects.

One live market state runs the whole platform. Follow it into the product, or into the surface next to this one.

01Open the live mapEvery layer on this page, running on the live grid — pick your market on arrival in a free workspace.02Grid agentAsk about anything you select; the answer moves the map back.03Asset databaseEvery plant and node on the map opens to a full profile.04Market radarThe same market state on a time-aligned operating board.

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