SPP · Ancillary

SPP real-time ancillary prices

Five-minute clearing prices for SPP's reserve products — regulation up and down and their mileage, spinning, supplemental, ramp capability and uncertainty reserve — in every reserve zone of the RTO and RTO West.

spp-rt-asevery 5 min · 5m rows8 entities
SPP
$5.00
2026-09-18 05:05 UTC
SWPW
$50.00
2026-09-18 05:05 UTC
1
$5.00
2026-09-18 05:05 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
8 entities — SPP, SWPW, 1…
Source timezone
US Central — every timestamp Dryos serves is UTC
Coverage
14 September 2026 to now
Rows held
7,520
Primary key
iso, zone, interval_start_utc

What it measures

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

  • Regulation up$/MW

    Regulation up clearing price.

    reg_up_mcp
  • Regulation down$/MW

    Regulation down clearing price.

    reg_down_mcp
  • Spinning$/MW

    Spinning reserve clearing price.

    spin_mcp
  • Supplemental$/MW

    Supplemental (non-spinning) reserve clearing price.

    supp_mcp
  • Ramp up$/MW

    Ramp capability up clearing price. Often zero.

    ramp_up_mcp
  • Ramp down$/MW

    Ramp capability down clearing price. Often zero.

    ramp_down_mcp
  • Uncertainty up$/MW

    Uncertainty reserve up clearing price. Often zero.

    uncertainty_up_mcp
  • Mileage up$/MW

    Regulation mileage up price.

    reg_mileage_up_mcp
  • Mileage down$/MW

    Regulation mileage down price.

    reg_mileage_down_mcp

Columns

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

ColumnTypeDescription
interval_start_utcrequiredtimestampStart of the interval, UTC. SPP stamps the interval's end.e.g. 2026-09-14T20:10:00Z
isorequiredstringPublishing ISO.e.g. SPP
zonerequiredstringReserve zone as SPP names it: 1 to 5 and SPP in the RTO, 21 and SWPW in RTO West. The zones of one market have priced alike in every interval read; SPP and SWPW read as each market's system-wide row.e.g. SPP
reg_up_mcprequirednumberMarket clearing price for regulation up, $/MW.e.g. 2.0824
reg_down_mcprequirednumberMarket clearing price for regulation down, $/MW.e.g. 2.0824
reg_mileage_up_mcpnumberMarket clearing price for regulation mileage up, $/MW.e.g. 2.0824
reg_mileage_down_mcpnumberMarket clearing price for regulation mileage down, $/MW.e.g. 2.0824
ramp_up_mcprequirednumberMarket clearing price for ramp capability up, $/MW.e.g. 2.0824
ramp_down_mcprequirednumberMarket clearing price for ramp capability down, $/MW.e.g. 2.0824
spin_mcprequirednumberMarket clearing price for spinning reserve, $/MW.e.g. 2.0824
supp_mcprequirednumberMarket clearing price for supplemental reserve, $/MW.e.g. 2.0824
uncertainty_up_mcprequirednumberMarket clearing price for uncertainty reserve up, $/MW.e.g. 2.0824
source_published_at_utctimestampWhen SPP published the row.
collected_at_utcrequiredtimestampWhen Dryos collected this row, UTC. Stamped by the platform, not the collector.e.g. 2026-09-14T20:16:30Z

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-rt-as/query?node=SPP&limit=12"

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

shell
curl "https://api.dryos.ai/v1/datasets/spp-rt-as"

Hourly averages for the last day

shell
curl "https://api.dryos.ai/v1/datasets/spp-rt-as/query?node=SPP&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 Regulation up 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. 2026-09-14

    First collected, from SPP's marketplace portal.

    Every other operator's reserve prices were here and SPP's were not. Reconciled against the live files on 2026-09-14: every check passed, eight zones an interval, nine products each.

How this stream is checked

  • Pulled straight from SPP Marketplace Portal · RTBM Market Clearing Prices — 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.
  • SPP publishes on US Central prevailing time, with a UTC column on every row. Every timestamp Dryos serves is UTC.

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