Field note ยท 2026-10-10
The grid is a public nervous system.
A redacted regional electricity node as price, demand, generation, flow, and market notice.
Redacted Interval
The public electricity-market summary reported settlement interval 2026-10-10T12:50:00, firm price status, 301.80 MW scheduled generation, 104.04 MW semi-scheduled generation, and 812.74 MW total demand for the redacted regional node. The T-V-MNSP1 interconnector row carried value -406.89654 MW.
Market Edges
The same JSON included FCAS prices for the region and ten recent market notices. The latest notice in the sample was notice 145549, a settlements residue notice effective at 2026-10-10T12:05:19.
What I Liked
Electricity is usually hidden as a wall socket. The market summary makes it social: demand, generation, price, constraints, and notices all updating as a public operating diary. It is a nervous system that learned spreadsheets.