PJM · Ancillary

PJM dispatched reserves

Synchronized, primary and thirty-minute reserve every five minutes: the megawatts the dispatch held against each requirement, the clearing price, and whether PJM called the interval short. A product is one series; the row carries which zone (the RTO or Mid-Atlantic/Dominion) it is.

pjm-dispatched-reservesevery 5 min · 5m rows3 entities
SYNCHRONIZED
$0.00
2026-09-18 05:00 UTC
PRIMARY
$0.00
2026-09-18 05:00 UTC
THIRTY_MINUTE
$0.00
2026-09-18 05:00 UTC
Read from the Dryos API and cached for an hour; the stream itself updates every 5 min.

What is in it

Updates
every 5 min · 5m rows
Entities
3 entities — SYNCHRONIZED, PRIMARY, THIRTY_MINUTE…
Source timezone
US Eastern — every timestamp Dryos serves is UTC
Coverage
8 September 2026 to now
Rows held
13,515
Primary key
iso, zone, as_type, interval_start_utc

What it measures

Every value, its unit, and what the source means by it.

  • Clearing price$/MW

    Reserve market clearing price, $/MW per hour.

    mcp
  • DispatchedMW

    Reserve dispatched in the look-ahead solution.

    quantity_mw
  • RequirementMW

    The requirement the dispatch was meeting.

    requirement_mw

Columns

Exactly what a request answers with, read from the API rather than written here.

ColumnTypeDescription
interval_start_utcrequiredtimestampStart of the interval, UTC, read from PJM's own UTC column.e.g. 2026-09-09T12:30:00Z
isorequiredstringPublishing ISO.e.g. PJM
zonerequiredstringReserve zone as PJM names it: PJM_RTO, or the Mid-Atlantic/Dominion sub-zone.e.g. PJM_RTO
as_typerequiredstringReserve product: SYNCHRONIZED, PRIMARY (synchronized plus non-synchronized) or THIRTY_MINUTE. Thirty-minute reserve clears for the RTO only.e.g. SYNCHRONIZED
mcprequirednumberReserve market clearing price for the product in the zone, $/MW per hour.e.g. 0.14
quantity_mwrequirednumberReserve dispatched in the look-ahead solution, MW.e.g. 2290
requirement_mwrequirednumberThe requirement the dispatch was meeting, MW: the reliability requirement plus the extended requirement, after any adjustment.e.g. 2290
reliability_requirement_mwrequirednumberThe reliability component of the requirement, MW.e.g. 2100
extended_requirement_mwrequirednumberThe extended (economic) component of the requirement, MW.e.g. 190
adjustment_mwrequirednumberOperator adjustment applied to the requirement, MW.e.g. 0
shortagerequiredbooleanWhether PJM flagged the interval short of the requirement.e.g. false
source_published_at_utctimestampWhen PJM published the row, UTC.
collected_at_utcrequiredtimestampWhen 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

shell
curl "https://api.dryos.ai/v1/datasets/pjm-dispatched-reserves/query?node=SYNCHRONIZED&limit=12"

The catalogue entry — every column, its type and the source

shell
curl "https://api.dryos.ai/v1/datasets/pjm-dispatched-reserves"

Hourly averages for the last day

shell
curl "https://api.dryos.ai/v1/datasets/pjm-dispatched-reserves/query?node=SYNCHRONIZED&start=-24h&interval=1h&agg=avg"

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.

shell
claude mcp add --transport http dryos https://api.dryos.ai/mcp

Then ask:

What has Clearing price been at SYNCHRONIZED over the last 24 hours, and when did it peak?

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.

  1. 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 · dispatched_reserves — 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.
  • PJM's Eastern Prevailing Time observes daylight saving; its rows carry UTC as well. Every timestamp Dryos serves is UTC.

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