SPP · Load

SPP seven-day load forecast

SPP's hourly load forecast seven days ahead for the RTO and RTO West, every hourly publication kept.

spp-load-forecast-7dayhourly · 1h rows2 entities
SPP
32,591MW
2026-09-25 03:00 UTC
SWPW
3,008MW
2026-09-25 03:00 UTC
Read from the Dryos API and cached for an hour; the stream itself updates hourly.

What is in it

Updates
hourly · 1h rows
Entities
2 entities — SPP, SWPW…
Source timezone
US Central — every timestamp Dryos serves is UTC
Coverage
14 September 2026 to now
Rows held
26,544
Primary key
iso, zone, interval_start_utc, source_published_at_utc

What it measures

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

  • Load forecastMW

    SPP's mid-term forecast of the hour's load.

    load_forecast_mw

Columns

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

ColumnTypeDescription
interval_start_utcrequiredtimestampStart of the hourly interval, UTC. SPP stamps the interval's end.e.g. 2026-09-14T20:45:00Z
isorequiredstringPublishing ISO.e.g. SPP
zonerequiredstringBalancing authority: SPP for the RTO, SWPW for RTO West.e.g. SPP
load_forecast_mwnumberSPP's mid-term load forecast for the hour, MW.e.g. 39176
source_published_at_utcrequiredtimestampThe publication this forecast is from — the file's stamp, SPP's own label for it, in UTC. Every publication is kept, so an interval carries a row per vintage that covered it.e.g. 2026-09-14T20:50:00Z
collected_at_utcrequiredtimestampWhen Dryos collected this row, UTC. Stamped by the platform, not the collector.e.g. 2026-09-14T20:51:10Z

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/spp-load-forecast-7day/query?node=SPP&limit=12"

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

shell
curl "https://api.dryos.ai/v1/datasets/spp-load-forecast-7day"

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 Load forecast been at SPP 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. 2026-09-17

    The three-day gap from 2026-09-14 to 2026-09-17 is a collector fault, not a source one. SPP's dated files still hold it, and the runs after this read it back in oldest first.

    Every run since the first raised `TypeError: Start and end cannot both be tz-aware with different timezones` while planning which files to read. Postgres hands a stored timestamp back under `Etc/UTC`, which is the same zone as pandas' `UTC` and not the same object, and a range built between the two is refused — a break that could not happen on the SQLite these were written against. SPP had published normally throughout.

  2. 2026-09-14

    First collected, from SPP's marketplace portal.

    Every other operator's load forecast was here and SPP's was not. Reconciled against the live files on 2026-09-14: schema, nulls, primary key, value bands and row counts passed.

How this stream is checked

  • Pulled straight from SPP Marketplace Portal · MTLF vs Actual — 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; the interval timestamp is the start of the interval, in UTC.
  • SPP publishes on US Central prevailing time, with a UTC column on every row. Every timestamp Dryos serves is UTC.

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