CAISO · Load
CAISO system load
CAISO-wide demand every five minutes — the Current demand line on caiso.com's Today's Outlook — flagged on the evenings CAISO is calling on demand response.
caiso-system-loadevery 5 min · 5m rows1 entityWhat is in it
- Updates
- every 5 min · 5m rows
- Entities
- 1 entity
- Source timezone
- US Pacific — every timestamp Dryos serves is UTC
- Coverage
- 13 September 2026 to now
- Rows held
- 1,392
- Primary key
- iso, interval_start_utc
What it measures
Every value, its unit, and what the source means by it.
- DemandMW
CAISO-wide demand at the reading.
demand_mw
Columns
Exactly what a request answers with, read from the API rather than written here.
| Column | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| interval_start_utcrequired | timestamp | Time of the reading, UTC, from CAISO's Pacific clock and the file's date.e.g. 2026-09-14T16:40:00Z |
| isorequired | string | Publishing ISO.e.g. CAISO |
| demand_mwrequired | number | CAISO-wide demand at the reading, MW — Today's Outlook's Current demand.e.g. 28034 |
| demand_response | boolean | Whether CAISO flagged demand response at the reading: a few evenings a year, in heat.e.g. false |
| source_published_at_utc | timestamp | Last-Modified of the file the row was read from, UTC. |
| collected_at_utcrequired | timestamp | When Dryos collected this row, UTC. Stamped by the platform, not the collector.e.g. 2026-09-14T16:45:12Z |
Read it
Public, read-only, no key and no sign-up. Relative times stay relative, so a URL keeps working.
The newest rows
curl "https://api.dryos.ai/v1/datasets/caiso-system-load/query?limit=12"The catalogue entry — every column, its type and the source
curl "https://api.dryos.ai/v1/datasets/caiso-system-load"Full parameters — bucketing, aggregation, filters and search — are on the API reference.
Ask an agent
The same stream through the Model Context Protocol, so Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or any MCP client can query it directly.
claude mcp add --transport http dryos https://api.dryos.ai/mcpThen ask:
Show me Demand on CAISO system load over the last 24 hours.
Setup for every client is on the MCP server page.
Changes to this collector
A change in the collector is a change in the data. Anyone reading a step in a series is owed the day it moved under them.
- 2026-09-14
First collected, from caiso.com's Today's Outlook files.
The five-minute system demand every other operator here already had. The file's forecast columns are not stored; OASIS publishes those by area.
How this stream is checked
- Pulled straight from caiso.com · Today's Outlook · demand.csv — no reseller in between — and compared against that file before it is served.
- Null means the source did not report it — never zero.
- A reading lands every 5 min; the interval timestamp is the start of the interval, in UTC.
- CAISO's market clock is US Pacific; OASIS answers in UTC. Every timestamp Dryos serves is UTC.
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