What you can ask
- “What does IESO (Ontario Grid) have for the area or asset I'm working on?”
- “Pull the most recent IESO (Ontario Grid) records and put them in a table.”
- “What does IESO (Ontario Grid) cover, and how fresh is the data?”
About this source
IESO — Independent Electricity System Operator of Ontario, Canada's largest electricity market. Public grid data: hourly Ontario demand, day-ahead zonal energy price, per-generator output & capability by fuel type, and intertie (interconnection) schedules/flows — for load forecasting, renewable-integration, and price analysis. No auth (public CSV + IESO-schema XML report files).
Connector ID ieso-ontario
Provenance
Freshness & coverage
› Methods (6)
Technical detail for developers: parameters, pagination, units, and freshness per method.
getOntarioDemand
readHourly market + Ontario electricity demand (MW)
year defaults current; limit defaults 168 recent hours. Returns hourly demand.
getDayAheadZonalPrice
readDay-ahead hourly Ontario zonal energy price ($/MWh)
date defaults latest; returns hourly zonal, loss, and congestion prices.
getGeneratorOutputCapability
readPer-generator hourly output + capability by fuel type
Filter date and fuelType; limit defaults 200. Large report; filter by fuel.
getIntertieScheduleFlow
readIntertie (interconnection) hourly schedules + flows by zone
Args: date?. Body: per IntertieZone schedules (Import/Export) + flows by hour.
listReportFiles
readEnumerate available files in a report folder (or all 139 report folders)
report selects a folder; omit it to list report folders and discover dates.
getServiceInfo
readStatic API overview — reports, CSV/XML formats, latest-vs-dated filenames
