PJM · Ancillary
PJM operational reserves
The megawatts of synchronized, primary and thirty-minute reserve PJM is holding against each requirement, as the control room sees them every fifteen seconds, for the RTO and the Mid-Atlantic/Dominion sub-zone.
pjm-operational-reservesevery 15 s · 15s rows13 entitiesWhat is in it
- Updates
- every 15 s · 15s rows
- Entities
- 13 entities — RTO_SYNCHRONIZED_RESERVE_TOTAL, RTO_CONTINGENCY_PRIMARY_RESERVE_TOTAL…
- Source timezone
- US Eastern — every timestamp Dryos serves is UTC
- Coverage
- 9 September 2026 to now
- Rows held
- 629,572
- Primary key
- iso, as_type, interval_start_utc
What it measures
Every value, its unit, and what the source means by it.
- ReserveMW
The series' value at the scan.
reserve_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 |
| as_typerequired | string | The reserve series as PJM names it, upper-snake: a total held or a requirement, for a product, in the RTO or the Mid-Atlantic/Dominion sub-zone — RTO_SYNCHRONIZED_RESERVE_TOTAL, RTO_SYNCHRONIZED_RESERVE_REQUIREMENT_FROM_MARKETS, MID_ATLANTIC_DOMINION_OPERATING_30_MIN_RESERVE_TOTAL, and so on.e.g. RTO_SYNCHRONIZED_RESERVE_TOTAL |
| reserve_mwrequired | number | The series' value at the scan, MW.e.g. 2290 |
| 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-operational-reserves/query?node=RTO_SYNCHRONIZED_RESERVE_TOTAL&limit=12"The catalogue entry — every column, its type and the source
curl "https://api.dryos.ai/v1/datasets/pjm-operational-reserves"Hourly averages for the last day
curl "https://api.dryos.ai/v1/datasets/pjm-operational-reserves/query?node=RTO_SYNCHRONIZED_RESERVE_TOTAL&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.
claude mcp add --transport http dryos https://api.dryos.ai/mcpThen ask:
What has Reserve been at RTO_SYNCHRONIZED_RESERVE_TOTAL 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.
- 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 · operational_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 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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