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 entitiesWhat 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.
| Column | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| interval_start_utcrequired | timestamp | Start of the hourly interval, UTC. SPP stamps the interval's end.e.g. 2026-09-14T20:45:00Z |
| isorequired | string | Publishing ISO.e.g. SPP |
| zonerequired | string | Balancing authority: SPP for the RTO, SWPW for RTO West.e.g. SPP |
| load_forecast_mw | number | SPP's mid-term load forecast for the hour, MW.e.g. 39176 |
| source_published_at_utcrequired | timestamp | The 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_utcrequired | timestamp | When 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
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
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.
claude mcp add --transport http dryos https://api.dryos.ai/mcpThen 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.
- 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.
- 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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