What you can ask
- “What does CAISO OASIS have for the area or asset I'm working on?”
- “Pull the most recent CAISO OASIS records and put them in a table.”
- “What does CAISO OASIS cover, and how fresh is the data?”
About this source
CAISO OASIS California ISO market and operational reports — LMPs, load, renewable generation, and curtailments across the California grid.
Connector ID caiso
Provenance
Freshness & coverage
FreshnessNear real-time — Availability and publication timing vary by OASIS report.
GeographicCalifornia ISO balancing authority area
Temporal… → present — Caller-selected report windows; defaults to the previous UTC day.
AuthenticationNo credentials required
Caveats
- ⚠ OASIS timestamps and operating dates should be interpreted using the report-specific CAISO documentation.
› Methods (3)
Technical detail for developers: parameters, pagination, units, and freshness per method.
queryOasis
readQuery an exact CAISO OASIS report with provider parameters; returns a bounded CSV page.
Required paramsquerynameEntitiesoasis-report-rowPaginationoffset (offsetField: offset, limitField: limit)FreshnessNear real-time- ⚠ Row fields vary by exact OASIS report; columns names are returned explicitly.
listReports
readList the supported CAISO OASIS reports.
Entitiesoasis-reportPaginationnoneFreshnessStaticgetLmpData
readGet a bounded page of CAISO locational marginal price components for one exact pricing node.
Required paramsnodeEntitieslocational-marginal-pricePaginationoffset (offsetField: offset, limitField: limit)UnitsMW: USD/MWhFreshnessNear real-timePrice is in the column named MW (USD/MWh). Rows sorted by interval start.
