PJM · Grid
PJM area control error
How far PJM is from its interchange schedule and frequency obligation at the instant, in megawatts, every fifteen seconds — the number the control room regulates to zero.
pjm-aceevery 15 s · 15s rows1 entityWhat is in it
- Updates
- every 15 s · 15s rows
- Entities
- 1 entity
- Source timezone
- US Eastern — every timestamp Dryos serves is UTC
- Coverage
- 8 September 2026 to now
- Rows held
- 54,053
- Primary key
- iso, interval_start_utc
What it measures
Every value, its unit, and what the source means by it.
- ACEMW
Area control error at the scan; positive is over-generating.
ace_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, read from PJM's own UTC column.e.g. 2026-09-09T12:30:00Z |
| isorequired | string | Publishing ISO.e.g. PJM |
| ace_mwrequired | number | Area control error for the PJM control area at the scan, MW: the imbalance between scheduled and actual net interchange plus the frequency bias contribution. Positive is over-generating.e.g. 229.67 |
| source_published_at_utc | timestamp | When PJM published the row, UTC. |
| collected_at_utcrequired | timestamp | When Dryos collected this row, UTC. Stamped by the platform, not the collector.e.g. 2026-09-09T12:35:12Z |
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/pjm-ace/query?limit=12"The catalogue entry — every column, its type and the source
curl "https://api.dryos.ai/v1/datasets/pjm-ace"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 ACE on PJM area control error 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.
- 2026-09-09
First collected, from PJM Data Miner 2.
Non-member API access was granted on 2026-09-09. Reconciled against live responses the same day: schema, nulls, primary key, value bands and row counts all passed, and the energy identity and the node naming rule were checked row-for-row against the day-ahead feed and the pricing-node master.
How this stream is checked
- Pulled straight from PJM Data Miner 2 · area_control_error — 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 15 s; the interval timestamp is the start of the interval, in UTC.
- PJM's Eastern Prevailing Time observes daylight saving; its rows carry UTC as well. Every timestamp Dryos serves is UTC.
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