ERCOT · Load
Actual system load
Metered demand by weather zone, hourly, with ERCOT's own system total as its own row. The denominator for scarcity. Collected from ERCOT MIS (NP6-345), reconciled against the source file.
ercot-actual-load-weather-zonehourly, posted next day · 1h rows9 entitiesWhat is in it
- Updates
- hourly, posted next day · 1h rows
- Entities
- 9 entities — COAST, NORTH_C, TOTAL…
- Source
- ERCOT MIS · NP6-345-CD
- Source timezone
- US Central — every timestamp Dryos serves is UTC
- Coverage
- 26 August 2026 to now
- Rows held
- 4,752
- Primary key
- iso, zone, interval_start_utc
What it measures
Every value, its unit, and what the source means by it.
- Actual loadMW
Hourly average metered demand for the zone.
load_mw
Columns
Exactly what a request answers with, read from the API rather than written here.
| Column | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| interval_start_utcrequired | timestamp | Start of the interval, UTC. Always UTC — ERCOT publishes wall-clock Central with a repeated-hour flag, which is resolved on ingest.e.g. 2026-08-29T14:15:00Z |
| isorequired | string | Publishing ISO.e.g. ERCOT |
| zonerequired | string | ERCOT zone, in the actual-load report's spelling (COAST, EAST, FAR_WEST, NORTH, NORTH_C, SOUTH_C, SOUTHERN, WEST for weather zones; NORTH, SOUTH, WEST, HOUSTON for forecast zones). 'TOTAL' is the ERCOT system total as published, not a sum computed here.e.g. COAST |
| load_mwrequired | number | Hourly average load, MW.e.g. 17115.5 |
| source_published_at_utcrequired | timestamp | When ERCOT posted the document this row came from, UTC. For reports republished on a rolling window this is the vintage: the same interval appears once per publication, and the newest is the current view.e.g. 2026-08-29T14:17:01Z |
| collected_at_utcrequired | timestamp | When Dryos collected this row, UTC. Stamped by the platform, not the collector.e.g. 2026-08-29T14:18:02Z |
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/ercot-actual-load-weather-zone/query?node=COAST&limit=12"The catalogue entry — every column, its type and the source
curl "https://api.dryos.ai/v1/datasets/ercot-actual-load-weather-zone"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:
What has Actual load been at COAST over the last 24 hours, and when did it peak?
Setup for every client is on the MCP server page.
How this stream is checked
- Pulled straight from ERCOT MIS · NP6-345-CD — 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 hourly, posted next day; the interval timestamp is the start of the interval, in UTC.
- ERCOT settles and publishes on US Central time. Every timestamp Dryos serves is UTC.
Related streams
- Seven-day load forecastERCOT
ERCOT's own load forecast by weather zone, refreshed every hour, seven days out.
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ERCOT's hourly-refreshed load forecast for the four forecast zones and the system, seven days out — every revision kept.
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