SPP · Generation

SPP RTO West fuel mix

What is generating in SPP's western market, RTO West, every five minutes — hydro, coal, gas, wind, solar and storage — split into market-dispatched and self-scheduled output. RTO West went live on 1 April 2026.

spp-west-fuel-mixevery 5 min · 5m rows11 entities
HYDRO
578MW
2026-09-18 05:00 UTC
COAL
821MW
2026-09-18 05:00 UTC
WIND
452MW
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
11 entities — HYDRO, COAL, WIND…
Source timezone
US Central — every timestamp Dryos serves is UTC
Coverage
14 September 2026 to now
Rows held
10,813
Primary key
iso, fuel, interval_start_utc

What it measures

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

  • OutputMW

    Generation from the source in the interval, dispatched and self-scheduled together. Storage is negative while charging.

    gen_mw
  • Market-dispatchedMW

    The part of the source's output the market dispatched on price.

    gen_market_mw
  • Self-scheduledMW

    The part its owners ran on their own schedule rather than on price.

    gen_self_mw

Columns

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

ColumnTypeDescription
interval_start_utcrequiredtimestampStart of the five-minute interval, UTC. SPP labels it by its end.e.g. 2026-09-14T18:10:00Z
isorequiredstringPublishing ISO.e.g. SPP
fuelrequiredstringSource as SPP names it, upper-snake: COAL, DIESEL_FUEL_OIL, HYDRO, NATURAL_GAS, NUCLEAR, SOLAR, WASTE_DISPOSAL_SERVICES, WIND, WASTE_HEAT, ENERGY_STORAGE, OTHER. Energy storage runs negative while charging.e.g. WIND
gen_mwnumberGeneration from this source in the interval, MW: the market-dispatched and self-scheduled parts together, which is SPP's own chart figure.e.g. 20772.3
gen_market_mwnumberOf which dispatched by the market, MW (SPP's Market column).e.g. 0.0
gen_self_mwnumberOf which self-scheduled by the resource's owner rather than dispatched, MW (SPP's Self column).e.g. 20772.3
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. 2026-09-14T18:17:04Z

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-west-fuel-mix/query?node=HYDRO&limit=12"

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

shell
curl "https://api.dryos.ai/v1/datasets/spp-west-fuel-mix"

Hourly averages for the last day

shell
curl "https://api.dryos.ai/v1/datasets/spp-west-fuel-mix/query?node=HYDRO&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 Output been at HYDRO 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 here had a fuel mix and SPP did not. This is RTO West, balancing authority SWPW, live since 2026-04-01. Reconciled against a live response on 2026-09-14: schema, nulls, primary key, value bands and freshness passed, eleven fuels an interval, and market plus self equal to SPP's own chart figure.

How this stream is checked

  • Pulled straight from SPP Marketplace Portal · Generation Mix Historical (SWPW) — 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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